Summary from Vendor: The eLabJournal (formerly Bio-ITech) Electronic Lab Notebook offers an intuitive and flexible solution to document research data. It improves effciency when documenting, organizing, searchings and archiving collected data in research laboratories.
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Features & Specifications
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Interactivity
Interface functionalitySearch functions can search across file formats and beyond typos
- Able to search for documents within the platform
- Able to search beyond file formats
- Able to search beyond typographical errors
- Transparency of file structure
Ability to manipulate files and images
- Can manipulate text, spreadsheets and images
Support for multiple open windows
- Yes
Ability to link out
- Yes
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Support for Researcher Documentation
Documentation and metadata creationHyperlink Support
- Yes
Metadata Creation Prompts
- No
Rights Management (Licensing)
- Yes
Protocol Integration
- Yes
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Adaptability to Lab Workflows
Platform compatibilityAccounts/Permissions Levels
- Yes
Internal Data Sharing
- Yes
Adaptable to a Variety of Workflows
- No information provided
Compatibility with authoring tools
- Yes
Windows Compatible
- Yes
Macintosh Compatible
- Yes
Linux Compatible
- Yes
Android Compatible
- Yes
iOS Compatible
- Yes
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Storage
Available data storage optionsCloud Storage
- Yes
Local Storage
- Yes
Hybrid (cloud/local) Storage
- Yes
Versioning
- All entries and changes are recorded and time stamped automatically to ensure a full audit trail of your ELN. A version history allows you to access previous versions of your experiments.
File Redundancy
- Files are replicated within the server in real time, on multiple disks. The same files are replicated to geographically different server locations in real time.
- This data is backed up every 24 hours on a 3rd distant location.
- So we have 3 different locations where your data is redundantly stored.
Creates stable URLs or persistent identifiers for entries
- Yes
Can unregistered users access the data found at persistent links?
- Yes
Storage Capacity - Users
- 25GB per user, with options to upgrade, and purchase eLABHybrid for additional storage servers
Storage Capacity - Max File Size
- No Limit
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Hosting
Software accessCloud
- Yes
Local
- Yes
Hybrid (combination of cloud and local)
- Yes
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Support
Training and maintenance offeredTraining
- Administrator, user, in-person, implementation support
Documentation
- FAQs, support forum, troubleshooting information, quick-start instructions
Data Migration from Other Systems (incoming migration)
- Yes
Compatibility with data repositories
- Yes
Exit Strategies (outgoing migration)
- Yes
Recovery Options
- Full disaster recovery
Single Sign-on (Institutional ID)
- Yes
Number of Installations per institution
- No limit
Multiple client use
- Yes
Number of registered Harvard/HMS users
- Unknown
Other higher-education users
- 30, including the BROAD Institute and Tufts University
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Security
Compliance with Harvard security -
Other
Additional featuresOpen Science/Open Data Efforts
- We can export into an open format
Academically Oriented
- Yes
Cost (per seat)
- There are many products, and options within eLAB.
- With each new user added, the total price decreases.
- There is not a simple formula to describe the pricing scheme.
Dictation/voice input
- Yes
Data Entry
- Import text, sketches, tables, chemical structures, and attach any kind of data. Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint can be manipulated within the ELN.
Platform Integrations
- Connect and process research data from different software applications within your organization.
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Tiers of Service
Features and costs associatedNo information provided