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'''Lab-Ally LLC.''' develops and distributed enterprise [[laboratory informatics]] software solutions.  
'''Lab-Ally, LLC''' develops and distributes enterprise [[laboratory informatics]] software solutions including CERF, RSpace, and eCAT. Lab-Ally also sells a number of other life science products and services, including the sourcing of difficult-to-find materials and samples, [[21 CFR Part 11]] data management, and recruitment.<ref name="LAAbout">{{cite web |url=http://lab-ally.com/about-us/ |title=Lab-Ally About Us |publisher=Lab-Ally LLC |accessdate=23 December 2016}}</ref>


==History==
==History==
Lab-Ally was formed in August 2013<ref name="OhioStateSearch">{{cite web |url=https://www5.sos.state.oh.us/ords/f?p=100:7:0::NO:7:P7_CHARTER_NUM:2218872 |title=Corporation Details: Lab-Ally LLC |work=Business Filing Portal |publisher=Ohio Secretary of State |accessdate=23 December 2016}}</ref> as a sales and marketing partner for a number of small biotech/histopathology companies. The founders were former employees of [[Vendor:Rescentris, Inc.|Rescentris, Inc.]], the company that originally developed the CERF ELN in the early 2000s.<ref name="EatonWith06">{{cite web |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2006/05/15/story7.html |archiveurl=https://archive.is/ejaml |title=With Silicon Valley cash, Rescentris hopes to organize science lab notes |author=Eaton, D. |work=Columbus Business First |publisher=American City Business Journals |date=15 May 2006 |archivedate=23 December 2016 |accessdate=23 December 2016}}</ref> Rescentris (which was also briefly known as ELN Technologies and [[Vendor:irisnote, Inc.|irisnote, Inc.]]) ceased operations following the unfortunate death of primary owner and advisory board member Leonard Herzenberg, an internationally renowned scientist at Stanford University.<ref name="CalLicSearch">{{cite web |url=https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/ |title=Business Search |publisher=California Secretary of State |accessdate=23 December 2016 |quote=Search for entity number C3430174}}</ref><ref name="IrisBoardArch">{{cite web |url=http://www.linksv.com/compSummary/es/74343/Irisnote |archiveurl=https://archive.is/2luYo |title=Irisnote |work=LinkSV |publisher=Link Silicon Valley, LLC |date=July 2013 |archivedate=23 December 2016 |accessdate=23 December 2016}}</ref><ref name="CongerLeonard13">{{cite web |url=http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2013/10/leonard-herzenberg-geneticist-who-developed-key-cell-sorting-technology-dies.html |title=Leonard Herzenberg, geneticist who developed key cell-sorting technology, dies |author=Conger, K. |work=Stanford Medicine News Center |date=31 October 2013 |accessdate=23 December 2016}}</ref>


Lab-Ally develops and distributes the [[electronic laboratory notebook]] CERF, but also sells a range of other informatics solutions and scientific products including the RSpace ELN <ref name="RSpace">{{cite web |url=http://lab-ally.com/products/rspace-eln// | |title= RSpace - Electronic Lab Notebook |publisher=Lab-Ally LLC |accessdate=18 Nov 2014}}</ref>. and Qualoupe LIMS. Founded by Rob Day in 2013, Lab-Ally LLC attempts to position itself at the strategic nexus of many different types of modern research. Clients include universities, laboratories and biotechnology companies working in life science, biomedical, big pharma, environmental and informatics fields. Lab-Ally aims to provide assistance with every part of the research life cycle including the location of hard-to-find specimens and supplies, data collection and IP management (via selected ELN and LIMS software solutions), as well as the recruitment of CLIA certified CROs and other research service providers research organizations may need to complete their studies. Lab-Ally also has strategic partnerships with design and engineering partners who can help turn early stage technologies into marketable products. The Lab-Ally business model is to identify customer's scientific, data management or business bottlenecks, then connect those customers with complete solutions that can be provided by Lab-Ally, or by one of its partners.
In April 2014, support and development rights of CERF ELN passed back to Lab-Ally.<ref name="Lab-Ally LLC">{{cite web |url=http://lab-ally.com/products/cerf-eln/ |archiveurl=https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20141202053746/http://lab-ally.com/products/cerf-eln |title= CERF - Electronic Lab Notebook |publisher=Lab-Ally LLC |archivedate=02 December 2014 |accessdate=23 December 2016}}</ref> Some minor maintenance and security releases were provided to existing CERF customers in 2014 and 2015<ref name="iCERF 4.5.0.27">{{cite web |url=http://cerf-notebook.com/news/cerf-update-4-5-0-27-released/ |author=Deck, M. |title=CERF Update 4.5.0.27 Released |publisher=Lab-Ally LLC |date=06 April 2015 |accessdate=19 December 2016}}</ref>, and a new iPad client called "iCERF" was released in 2016.<ref name="iCERF for iPad">{{cite web |url=http://cerf-notebook.com/solutions/ipad-client/ |title=iCERF iPad Client |publisher=Lab-Ally LLC |accessdate=19 December 2016}}</ref>


The flagship CERF product was originally created by a team in Columbus, Ohio by [[Rescentris, Inc]]. In 2011 the company became [[ELN Technologies, Inc.]] and then [[irisnote, Inc.]] with a new leadership team and headquarters in California. In October of 2013, [[irisnote, Inc.]] ceased operations, and sales, support and development of CERF passed back to its original home town of Columbus, Ohio under the auspices of [[Lab-Ally LLC]]. <ref name="Lab-Ally LLC">{{cite web |url=http://lab-ally.com/products/cerf-eln/ | |title= CERF - Electronic Lab Notebook |publisher=Lab-Ally LLC |accessdate=18 Nov 2014}}</ref>.
===Partnerships===
In 2013, Lab-Ally formed a strategic partnership with [[Vendor:Research Innovations Limited|ResearchSpace]], the U.K.-based makers of the RSpace ELN and eCAT sample tracking system. Lab-Ally currently serves as the North American operating arm of ResearchSpace, assisting with all aspects of product design, support, distribution, and U.S. invoicing.<ref name="LARSInfo">{{cite web |url=http://lab-ally.com/partners/researchspace/ |title=Research Space |publisher=Lab-Ally, LLC |accessdate=23 December 2016}}</ref>


==Technology and products==
==Technology and products==
===RSpace ===
[[Vendor:Research Innovations Limited#RSpace|RSpace]] is the successor of the older eCAT ELN product and was designed by the makers of eCAT with input from Lab-Ally. RSpace is intended mainly for large academic, government, and commercial enterprise deployments. RSpace uses any HTML5 capable browser to connect to the server and can be used with any workstation or any modern mobile device. RSpace is highly integrated with other common web tools and is designed to allow users to create links to data already stored in third-party systems like Box, Dropbox, MS OneDrive, Mendeley, GitHub and others. RSpace also includes integration with ORCID and allows export directly to archives like Figshare and Dataverse. A free public cloud version is available for use by academic labs. The RSpace server can be installed anywhere, but customers with limited IT expertise can choose to package RSpace with a private Amazon Web Services host instance managed by ResearchSpace.<ref name="RSpaceAbout">{{cite web |url=http://lab-ally.com/products/rspace-eln/ |title=RSpace ELN |publisher=Lab-Ally LLC |accessdate=23 December 2016}}</ref>


CERF is designed mainly for high compliance commercial labs and includes sophisticated semantic metadata tagging and search technologies, in-line data viewing, an iOS client, and true PKI digital signatures.
For more about RSpace and eCAT, please see [[Vendor:Research Innovations Limited|Research Innovations Limited]].


RSpace is the successor of the older eCAT ELN product and was designed by the makers of eCAT with input from Lab-Ally. Space is intended mainly for large academic, government and commercial enterprise deployments. Fast, simple, and easy to deploy, RSpace uses a browser to connect to the server, so there is no client software to download, install and learn. A free but storage limited public cloud version will be available to academic labs in 2015.
===CERF===
CERF (Collaborative Electronic Research Framework)<ref name="EatonWith06" /> is an [[electronic laboratory notebook]] (ELN) with content management and [[scientific data management system]] (SDMS) capabilities, designed mainly for high compliance commercial labs.<ref name="CERFAbout">{{cite web |url=https://lab-ally.com/products/cerf-eln/ |title=CERF ELN (Electronic Lab Notebook) and Document Management / Content Management Solution |publisher=Lab-Ally LLC |accessdate=15 October 2021}}</ref> The system includes the CERF server and dedicated desktop client applications for Mac OS and Windows. The system does not depend on internet access and can be run on a totally secure private LAN. CERF includes semantic metadata tagging and semantic search technologies, in-line data viewing, secure round-trip editing of any file type, versioned document control, true PKI digital signatures, and a dedicated app for the iPad platform called iCERF. CERF can be installed either on-premise or on a cloud server of the user's choice.<ref name="CERFAbout" /> In January 2017, Lab-Ally released CERF ELN version 5.0. <ref name="CERF 5.0">{{cite web |url=http://www.prweb.com/releases/lab-ally/ELN/prweb14001775.htm |title=Lab-Ally Announces Release of CERF ELN Version 5.0 |publisher=PRWeb |accessdate=23 January 2017}}</ref>
 
====Features====
 
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|-
  ! colspan="2" |Product: [https://lab-ally.com/products/cerf-eln/ CERF]
|-
  | style="background-color:white; border-style:none;" |{{Databox ELNfeature
| chem_draw_calc    =
| chem_spec_file    =
| task_event_sched  =
| manual_entry      =
| multiple_view      =
| data_analysis      = Y<ref name="CERFWhatIs">{{cite web |url=https://cerf-notebook.com/solutions/what-is-cerf/ |title=What is CERF? |publisher=Lab-Ally LLC |accessdate=15 October 2021}}</ref>
| data_sharing      = Y<ref name="CERFAbout" />
| custom_fields      = Y<ref name="CERFWhatIs" />
| custom_temps_forms = Y<ref name="CERFWhatIs" />
| query              = Y<ref name="CERFWhatIs" />
| import_data        = Y<ref name="CERFAbout" />
| data_linking_int  = Y<ref name="CERFWhatIs" />
| data_linking_ext  =
| export_msexcel    =
| export_raw        = Y<ref name="CERFWhatIs" />
| data_warehouse    = Y<ref name="CERFAbout" />
| project_task_man  = Y<ref name="CERFWhatIs" />
| inventory_man      = Y<ref name="CERFWhatIs" />
| document_man      = Y<ref name="CERFAbout" />
| lab_group_man      = Y<ref name="CERFWhatIs" />
| experiment_man    = Y<ref name="CERFWhatIs" />
| workflow_man      =
| customer_man      =
 
| reg_compliance    = Y<ref name="CERFAbout" />
| qa_qc              =
| performance_eval  =
| audit_trail        = Y<ref name="CERFWhatIs" />
| chain_custody      =
| roles_security    = Y<ref name="CERFWhatIs" />
| data_norm          =
| data_val          =
| data_encrypt      =
| electronic_sig    = Y<ref name="CERFAbout" />
| version_control    = Y<ref name="CERFWhatIs" />
| data_backup        =
 
| custom_reporting  = Y<ref name="CERFWhatIs" />
| report_printing    = Y<ref name="CERFWhatIs" />
| label_support      =
| barcode_support    =
| export_pdf        =
| export_msword      =
| export_htmlxml    =
| email_integration  = Y<ref name="CERFWhatIs" />
 
| admin_manage      = Y<ref name="CERFAbout" />
| modular            = Y<ref name="CERFWhatIs" />
| instrument_inter  = Y<ref name="CERFWhatIs" />
| mobile_device      = Y<ref name="CERFAbout" />
| soft_integration  = Y<ref name="CERFWhatIs" />
| alarms_alerts      =
| external_monitor  = Y<ref name="CERFWhatIs" />
| messaging          =
| bookmarking        = Y<ref name="CERFWhatIs" />
| commenting        =
| multilingual      =
| network            = Y<ref name="CERFAbout" />
| web_client        = Y<ref name="CERFAbout" />
| online_help        = Y<ref name="CERFAbout" />
| saas_model        = Y<ref name="CERFAbout" />
| usage_cost        =
 
| industries        = biotechnology, life sciences, pharmaceutical
}}
|-
|}
 
====Pricing====
 
 
====Demonstration videos and other media====
The following demonstration videos exist for CERF:
 
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwCPdZItVMo CERF Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN)]
 
====Additional information====
 
*[https://cerf-notebook.com/ CERF website]


==References==
==References==
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Revision as of 18:59, 12 April 2024

Lab-Ally, LLC
Type Limited liability company
Industry Laboratory informatics
Founder(s) Rob Day
Headquarters 247 E. Ninth Ave., Columbus, Ohio, United States
Area served Worldwide
Products
Website lab-ally.com
cerf-notebook.com
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/lab-ally-llc/

Lab-Ally, LLC develops and distributes enterprise laboratory informatics software solutions including CERF, RSpace, and eCAT. Lab-Ally also sells a number of other life science products and services, including the sourcing of difficult-to-find materials and samples, 21 CFR Part 11 data management, and recruitment.[1]

History

Lab-Ally was formed in August 2013[2] as a sales and marketing partner for a number of small biotech/histopathology companies. The founders were former employees of Rescentris, Inc., the company that originally developed the CERF ELN in the early 2000s.[3] Rescentris (which was also briefly known as ELN Technologies and irisnote, Inc.) ceased operations following the unfortunate death of primary owner and advisory board member Leonard Herzenberg, an internationally renowned scientist at Stanford University.[4][5][6]

In April 2014, support and development rights of CERF ELN passed back to Lab-Ally.[7] Some minor maintenance and security releases were provided to existing CERF customers in 2014 and 2015[8], and a new iPad client called "iCERF" was released in 2016.[9]

Partnerships

In 2013, Lab-Ally formed a strategic partnership with ResearchSpace, the U.K.-based makers of the RSpace ELN and eCAT sample tracking system. Lab-Ally currently serves as the North American operating arm of ResearchSpace, assisting with all aspects of product design, support, distribution, and U.S. invoicing.[10]

Technology and products

RSpace

RSpace is the successor of the older eCAT ELN product and was designed by the makers of eCAT with input from Lab-Ally. RSpace is intended mainly for large academic, government, and commercial enterprise deployments. RSpace uses any HTML5 capable browser to connect to the server and can be used with any workstation or any modern mobile device. RSpace is highly integrated with other common web tools and is designed to allow users to create links to data already stored in third-party systems like Box, Dropbox, MS OneDrive, Mendeley, GitHub and others. RSpace also includes integration with ORCID and allows export directly to archives like Figshare and Dataverse. A free public cloud version is available for use by academic labs. The RSpace server can be installed anywhere, but customers with limited IT expertise can choose to package RSpace with a private Amazon Web Services host instance managed by ResearchSpace.[11]

For more about RSpace and eCAT, please see Research Innovations Limited.

CERF

CERF (Collaborative Electronic Research Framework)[3] is an electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) with content management and scientific data management system (SDMS) capabilities, designed mainly for high compliance commercial labs.[12] The system includes the CERF server and dedicated desktop client applications for Mac OS and Windows. The system does not depend on internet access and can be run on a totally secure private LAN. CERF includes semantic metadata tagging and semantic search technologies, in-line data viewing, secure round-trip editing of any file type, versioned document control, true PKI digital signatures, and a dedicated app for the iPad platform called iCERF. CERF can be installed either on-premise or on a cloud server of the user's choice.[12] In January 2017, Lab-Ally released CERF ELN version 5.0. [13]

Features

The following feature list(s) is/are derived solely from public, freely-available online information the vendor provides. A lack of a "Y" does not necessarily mean that the product doesn't have that feature. The lack of a "Y" could mean:
  • the vendor chose to not put relevant feature information online despite its existence in the product.
  • the vendor chooses to make the feature information available only to those who create an account or call/e-mail.
  • the feature information exists online to the public, but a URL could not be found to cite the existence of the feature.
  • the feature does not exist for the product.
A vendor's product may receive more confirmed features with the addition of more public information to the vendor's site and/or by providing a URL to a page or document that can act as a citation for the existence of the feature. Prospective buyers are highly recommended to contact the vendor directly to verify features as this list isn't authoritative, and product upgrades and changes happen rapidly in some cases.
Product: CERF
Experiment, collaboration,
and data management
Chemical and/or mathematical drawing and calculation?
Chemical and/or spectrum file support?
Task and event scheduling?
Option for manual result entry?
Multiple data viewing methods?
Data and trend analysis?Y[14]
Data and equipment sharing?Y[12]
Customizable fields and/or interface?Y[14]
Configurable templates and forms?Y[14]
Query capability?Y[14]
Import data?Y[12]
Internal file or data linking?Y[14]
External file or data linking?
Export data to MS Excel?
Raw data management?Y[14]
Data warehouse?Y[12]
Project and/or task management?Y[14]
Inventory management?Y[14]
Document creation and/or management?Y[12]
Lab and/or group management?Y[14]
Experiment management?Y[14]
Workflow management?
Customer and supplier management?
Quality, security, and compliance
Regulatory compliance?Y[12]
QA / QC functions?
Performance evaluation?
Audit trail?Y[14]
Chain of custody?
Configurable roles and security?Y[14]
Data normalization?
Data validation?
Data encryption?
Electronic signatures?Y[12]
Version control?Y[14]
Automatic data backup?
Reporting, barcoding, and printing
Custom reporting?Y[14]
Report printing?Y[14]
Label support?
Barcode support?
Export to PDF?
Export to MS Word?
Export to HTML and/or XML?
Email integration?Y[14]
Base functionality
Administrator management?Y[12]
Modular?Y[14]
Instrument interfacing and management?Y[14]
Mobile device integration?Y[12]
Third-party software integration?Y[14]
Alarms and/or alerts?
External monitoring?Y[14]
Messaging?
Bookmarking?Y[14]
Commenting?
Multilingual?
Network-capable?Y[12]
Web client or portal?Y[12]
Online or integrated help?Y[12]
Software as a service delivery model?Y[12]
Usage-based cost?
Industries served
biotechnology, life sciences, pharmaceutical

Pricing

Demonstration videos and other media

The following demonstration videos exist for CERF:

Additional information

References

  1. ↑ "Lab-Ally About Us". Lab-Ally LLC. http://lab-ally.com/about-us/. Retrieved 23 December 2016. 
  2. ↑ "Corporation Details: Lab-Ally LLC". Business Filing Portal. Ohio Secretary of State. https://www5.sos.state.oh.us/ords/f?p=100:7:0::NO:7:P7_CHARTER_NUM:2218872. Retrieved 23 December 2016. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Eaton, D. (15 May 2006). "With Silicon Valley cash, Rescentris hopes to organize science lab notes". Columbus Business First. American City Business Journals. Archived from the original on 23 December 2016. https://archive.is/ejaml. Retrieved 23 December 2016. 
  4. ↑ "Business Search". California Secretary of State. https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/. Retrieved 23 December 2016. "Search for entity number C3430174" 
  5. ↑ "Irisnote". LinkSV. Link Silicon Valley, LLC. July 2013. Archived from the original on 23 December 2016. https://archive.is/2luYo. Retrieved 23 December 2016. 
  6. ↑ Conger, K. (31 October 2013). "Leonard Herzenberg, geneticist who developed key cell-sorting technology, dies". Stanford Medicine News Center. http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2013/10/leonard-herzenberg-geneticist-who-developed-key-cell-sorting-technology-dies.html. Retrieved 23 December 2016. 
  7. ↑ "CERF - Electronic Lab Notebook". Lab-Ally LLC. Archived from the original on 02 December 2014. https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20141202053746/http://lab-ally.com/products/cerf-eln. Retrieved 23 December 2016. 
  8. ↑ Deck, M. (6 April 2015). "CERF Update 4.5.0.27 Released". Lab-Ally LLC. http://cerf-notebook.com/news/cerf-update-4-5-0-27-released/. Retrieved 19 December 2016. 
  9. ↑ "iCERF iPad Client". Lab-Ally LLC. http://cerf-notebook.com/solutions/ipad-client/. Retrieved 19 December 2016. 
  10. ↑ "Research Space". Lab-Ally, LLC. http://lab-ally.com/partners/researchspace/. Retrieved 23 December 2016. 
  11. ↑ "RSpace ELN". Lab-Ally LLC. http://lab-ally.com/products/rspace-eln/. Retrieved 23 December 2016. 
  12. ↑ 12.00 12.01 12.02 12.03 12.04 12.05 12.06 12.07 12.08 12.09 12.10 12.11 12.12 12.13 "CERF ELN (Electronic Lab Notebook) and Document Management / Content Management Solution". Lab-Ally LLC. https://lab-ally.com/products/cerf-eln/. Retrieved 15 October 2021. 
  13. ↑ "Lab-Ally Announces Release of CERF ELN Version 5.0". PRWeb. http://www.prweb.com/releases/lab-ally/ELN/prweb14001775.htm. Retrieved 23 January 2017. 
  14. ↑ 14.00 14.01 14.02 14.03 14.04 14.05 14.06 14.07 14.08 14.09 14.10 14.11 14.12 14.13 14.14 14.15 14.16 14.17 14.18 14.19 14.20 "What is CERF?". Lab-Ally LLC. https://cerf-notebook.com/solutions/what-is-cerf/. Retrieved 15 October 2021. 
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