A practical guide to electronic lab notebook research tools, covering key features, data structure, and migration steps. Learn how to choose the right ELN.

An important task for in-house counsel is managing laboratory notebook practices. Laboratory notebooks are where inventions start, and they are key to successful patent enforcement. This article ...

More than ten years ago, I stopped using paper notebooks for my writing and consulting work. As someone who writes and thinks for a living, this was a big transition. But what a payoff I received in ...

To permanently access this eBook for free, fill out the short form below. We digitized the lab, but we did not make it intelligent. ELNs solved the paper problem, yet many scientists still turn to ...

Quality Laboratory notebooks can be an integral part of a company's controlled documentation but must be managed carefully to ensure quality. John A. DeLucia Manufacturers must consider many factors ...

Electronic laboratory notebooks (ELNs) were developed to keep track of experiments and data so that scientists could review their work in a single place and easily reproduce experiments. Many ELNs ...

Laboratory managers have several responsibilities, including keeping a record of everything that happens, especially their findings. However, manually tracking reports and data using paper notebooks ...

Quick quiz: Your company develops a patentable innovation six months before your competitor. Who is entitled to a U.S. patent for that invention? The answer? It depends. Under U.S. patent law, the ...

Electronic lab notebooks (ELNs) are valuable for laboratory digitization infrastructure, but they behave like digital filing cabinets that cannot do more than simply record generated data. Artificial ...

Scientists have long depended on pen and paper to record their observations, filling volumes of lab notebooks with their work. While Charles Darwin’s drawings and diagrams or Albert Einstein’s ...