LabTrove
 | |
| Developer(s) | University of Southampton |
|---|---|
| Initial release | January 17, 2012 (2.2-r301)[1] |
| Discontinued |
2.4.0.888 (July 28, 2015) [±] |
| Preview release | 2.4.99.889 (January 18, 2019) [±] |
| Written in | Java |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type |
Electronic laboratory notebook Laboratory informatics software |
| License(s) | BSD 3-Clause License |
| Website | LabTrove.org |
LabTrove was a free open-source electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) that "enables researchers to share their experimental plans, thoughts, observations and achievements with the wider online community in a secure, semantically rich and extensible manner."[2]
LabTrove was part of the Smart Research Framework (SRF)[3], a research collective which aimed to integrate social networking's benefits into a rigorous and reliable laboratory informatics framework.[4] It could be installed locally, or it's also available as a hosted service via U.K. business Liberata.[5][6]
Product history
An open-source SourceForge project was started on July 28, 2010[7], and release candidates were made public via SourceForge and the website LabTrove.org.[8] The first stable release of LabTrove is believed to be version 2.2-r301, released on January 17, 2012.[1] Development had continued on the software as part of the SRF.[3]
By 2023, the LabTrove website had fallen out of use, and the software has not been formally updated since 2019. The project is presumed to be abandoned.
Features
Features of LabTrove included[6]:
- web-based
- API-enabled automated processing
- metadata support
- blog style with timeline views
- R&D-friendly
- document management
- extensible
- LDAP, OpenID, username and password authentication
- available support and consultancy service
Hardware/software requirements
Prerequisite software was able to be installed manually or via a Debian all-in-one package. Installation requirements for LabTrove included:
- Apache 2 Web Server on Debian
- MySQL Server
- ImageMagick, ZIP, and other utilities
See the installation guide for more information.
Videos, screenshots, and other media
- LabTrove documentation could be found on the wiki.
Entities using LabTrove
Entities using LabTrove include[9]:
University of Southampton, University of Reading
Further reading
External links
LabTrove was also found on SourceForge. However, use caution when downloading and installing from there; the install package may contain undesirable add-on software.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "LabTrove - Release Log". University of Southampton. http://www.labtrove.org/getlabtrove/releaselog.html. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
- ↑ "LabTrove - About Us". University of Southampton. http://www.labtrove.org/aboutus/. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "The Smart Research Framework (SRF) - LabTrove". University of Southampton. http://www.mylabnotebook.ac.uk/software/labtrove.html. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
- ↑ "The Smart Research Framework (SRF) - The Vision". University of Southampton. http://www.mylabnotebook.ac.uk/vision.html. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
- ↑ "Liberata - Higher Education". Liberata UK Limited. http://www.liberata.com/products-services/it-solutions/sectors/higher-education. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "LabTrove and Liberata help Universities improve their Research Data Management" (PDF). Liberata UK Limited. http://www.liberata.com/docs/pdf/university-of-southampton.pdf?sfvrsn=6. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
- ↑ "LabTrove". SourceForge. http://sourceforge.net/projects/labtrove/. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
- ↑ "LabTrove - Get LabTrove". University of Southampton. Archived from the original on 20 November 2010. http://web.archive.org/web/20101120230051/http://www.labtrove.org/getlabtrove.html. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
- ↑ "LabTrove - Users". University of Southampton. http://www.labtrove.org/users/. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
