Electronic Lab Notebook ELN -- download

Electronic Lab Notebook, or electronic laboratory notebook or ELN, is a program for keeping laboratory records, files and images in one well-organized place on a computer. This program will suit those who are trying out ELN for the first time and those who seek advanced features, professional security and provable record authenticity.

The simple advantages of electronic records over paper

SEARCH

This ELN finds search keywords in its pages in seconds. With piles of paper notebooks, the same search may take hours or never give results. For principal investigators (PI) or supervisors, this ability changes how they approach research in a major way. They receive instant electronic access to years of research records from all of their employees, students and postdocs. Wonder who ever worked on that BRAF purification ? Who synthesized or used BTZ8021 ? It will take no time to find "that page" from 5 years ago.

THE BIG PICTURE

Unlike paper, electronic pages can be linked in any way imaginable. If page "X" describes data relevant to page "Y" from the past month, wouldn't it make sense to somehow connect these pages so in future this relevance is not lost? This ELN supports unlimited custom links with comments from any pages and to any pages.

AUTOMATION

Making records with this ELN is easier than using paper. Everything, from making a quick note to time stamping with digital signatures is automated and requires an absolute minimum or no user efforts and time. This ELN is designed with only one central idea - making a record easy. This ELN frees the researcher from routine actions associated with making records and considerably increases productivity.

SHARING

Project contents can be copied for backup and shared. The special strength of the BiochemLabSolutions ELN is in using open-source HTML-coded pages (open-text format = ultimate data ownership by the user). One can send all ELN records to anyone and the receiving party will be able to view the content on any computer and any OS without ever installing this program. Unlike paper, any number of ELN copies can be made and be either fully encrypted or open.

SECURITY

BiochemLabSolutions ELN is more secure than paper when encryption is enabled. Once the program is closed, all data become locked at the bit level. The implemented Open Source TrueCrypt encryption can be set to encrypt-decrypt ELN on-the-flight. Encryption is cryptographically strong and deniable. TrueCrypt was developed by security experts and is trusted by security experts over the world. In fact, it is considered by many the golden standard in encryption.

AUTHENTICITY

"Was this sentence here on December 17, 2008 ? Or was it edited in yesterday ?" With digital documents, it is easy to do editing without a trace. If this question cannot be answered with a solid proof, ELN records lose value as a trusted documentation instrument.
BiochemLabSolutions ELN integrates a simple and effective digital signatures method to prove that every record, every comma and every byte in ELN project or in entire ELN is original and was not modified after the date of signing. The digital signatures used here are cryptographically strong (symmetric equivalent of 256 bit) and once issued, cannot be compromised or bypassed. Digital signatures can be created automatically on a schedule. You don't need to be a security expert to use or interpret them.

DATA MANAGEMENT

BiochemLabSolutions ELN is designed as a powerful data manager. The ELN stores all notebook records and all data files relevant to each ELN page. Opening ELN pages brings to view all the associated data, which is a convenient way to store and manage digital lab resources.

PHYSICAL SECURITY AND RELIABILITY

BiochemLabSolutions ELN is a locally installed executable. You control your software, hardware and networking at all time.