CHEMISTS: Are you getting the most from your Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) software?

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Probably not… because it probably isn’t located in the chemistry laboratory, where you do your experiments.

• The quality of data in an ELN depends critically on accurate entry. Your notebook pages suffer from lack of detail and transcription errors when data are transferred via sticky note, scratch pad, or those notoriously unreliable brain cells.
• Writing up experiments in an ELN is still a lot of work, because the observations made in the lab must still be collected and entered into the computer.

Laboratory Workflow

When you used a paper lab notebook… Did you do your writeup right there at the hood? More likely you used a note pad or maybe a permanent marker on the hood glass. Most ELNs were designed to emulate the workflow of a notebook. The most convenient way to use them is often still to use the same old scratch pad. But there is a better way.

Get more from your ELN – plug a Labacus^® into it. Labacus^® puts computer power into your lab coat pocket and goes where you go in the lab – it’s an electronic scratch pad that solves everyday problems in the lab.

• Enter measurements and observations anywhere in the lab
• One-touch recording of procedure and workup details
• Handwriting recognition and on-screen chemical structure sketching
• Instant Writeup^™ automatically generates write-up in English text and transfers it to your ELN