eln
Warren Clark rounds up a
selection of the current ELN
products on the market
eln products
product round-up
Amphora
Research Symyx Notebook, from Symyx searchable repository. Symyx Notebook
Systems (www. Technologies (www.symyx.com/ is built on a chemically intelligent
amphora- notebook6), is an enterprise notebook platform. A Software Developer Kit
research.com) that helps scientists quickly and makes it straightforward to extend and
produces easily record, find, report, and reuse add functionality.
PatentSafe, which provides an easy-to-use experiments – while sharing information Symyx Notebook integrates with
replacement for the bound laboratory with colleagues and contract research balances, LIMS, CDS, and SDMS for
notebook. PatentSafe accepts input from any organisations over global networks. efficient data collection. The resulting
source into its searchable repository and uses Symyx Notebook is designed to be versioned, searchable documents are
secure digital signature technologies to secure used out of the box across multiple controlled by centralised, customisable
a company’s intellectual property. scientific disciplines including analytical document workflows, electronic
For scientists, PatentSafe is one of the chemistry, synthesis signatures, audit trails,
quickest and easiest ELN systems on the chemistry, and biology; and security supporting
market today, delivering significant ROI with from discovery through intellectual property,
little disruption and cost. PatentSafe requires manufacturing. 21 CFR 11, and good
little or no change in working practices, Highly configurable practice guidelines and
respecting existing investment in scientific sections and templates regulations for regulated
IT systems, chemistry software etc. Using enable information and non-regulated
PatentSafe’s fingerprint barcodes, users can capture into one fully research environments.
even print out experimental protocols to
annotate in the laboratory and scan them
back in to incorporate handwritten notes assistance from the internal IT department the management of reagents, antibodies,
into an experimental record. or from Contur. primers, protocols and more.
With PatentSafe, users can easily manage EZQuant-ELN does not require a
all of a company’s research information, EZQuant (www. dedicated server or any complicated
relieve the burden on scientists and keep the ezquant.com) installation procedures. Simply download,
lawyers happy. has introduced install, and go. A fully-functional 30-day
the EZQuant- free trial is available, and purchase is via a
Since early 2003, ConturELN, from Contur ELN. Replacing one-off fee or subscription.
(www.contur.com) has been implemented the traditional paper notebook, EZQuant-
by life science and chemicals/materials ELN offers diverse data storing possibilities, IDBS’ (www.
R&D organisations worldwide. The ELN is familiar working procedures and flexible idbs.com)
user-friendly and can be implemented across purchasing options, designed specifically for E-WorkBook
the entire R&D department with minimum small-scale users. Suite is a
customisation and configuration. It provides With EZQuant-ELN users can keep compliant, secure and extensible science-
maximum security to support compliance all data in one place and one file format, neutral ELN designed for researchers from
with 21 CFR part 11 and USPTO rules and placing images, documents, and even videos any discipline.
regulations. To satisfy the general needs inside the notebook file. Users can know Comprised of E-WorkBook, E-WorkBook
of R&D departments, the ConturELN who edited each file, and when, and ELNs for biology (BioBook) and E-WorkBook for
architecture is built around functionalities can be scanned using the integrated search chemistry (ChemBook), the E-WorkBook
that are common to all scientists: to record, engine to quickly find information needed. Suite is an integrated electronic laboratory
share, protect and recycle information. To EZQuant-ELN comes with an editable notebook (ELN) that increases scientists’
satisfy the discipline/domain specific needs, online knowledgebase for an entire productivity by automating data capture,
end users can develop experiment templates organisation. All reference information can storage and reporting. As well as enabling
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and meta-data vocabularies, without any be kept in one shared location, enabling the protection and exploitation of corporate
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