Electronic Laboratory Notebook (GippLab software)

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Electronic Laboratory Notebook
Developer(s) Bela Gipp, University of Göttingen
Initial release May 7, 2021 (2021-05-07) (1.0)[1]
Stable release 1.0 / May 7, 2021; 2 years ago (2021-05-07)
Written in Python, HTML
Operating system Windows 10
Type Laboratory informatics software
License(s) Apache License 2.0
Website github.com/gipplab/Electronic-Laboratory-Notebook
gipplab.org

Electronic Laboratory Notebook is an open-source electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) that uses "automated gathering of metadata" to generate "itself out of notes and files, which are generated by one or several experiments." The developers state that it is suitable for "individuals and small groups of researchers in data-driven deductive research."[2] The solution may borrow, in part, from Jupyter Notebook.[2]

Product history

The initial commit for Electronic Laboratory Notebook happened on GitHub on May 7, 2021[1], likely as part of a student project done for Professor Bela Gipp of the University of Göttingen.[3] The software has seen a handful of commits since then, and a non-peer-reviewed paper describing the software was published on arXiv in April 2022.[2] As of October 2022, there's no official version number of the software; for practical purposes it's referred herein as v1.0.

Features

Features include[2]:

  • rapid and easy loading of up to thousands of structured files
  • automated gathering of file metadata
  • automated related file linking
  • load status reporting
  • interactive data plotting, with correlation to sub-data

Hardware/software requirements

A list of dependencies can be found in the published arXiv article (see Further reading).

Videos, screenshots, and other media

A screenshot and installation instructions can be found on the GitHub page.

Entities using Electronic Laboratory Notebook

University of Göttingen

Further reading

External links

References