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Some Definitions, edited, from Water's glossary:
This page is going to be similar to the Wikipedia concept of portals. Wikipedia says of portals:


<blockquote>"The idea of a portal is to help readers and/or editors navigate their way through Wikipedia topic areas through pages similar to the Main Page. In essence, portals are useful entry-points to Wikipedia content."</blockquote>


'''Electronic Laboratory Notebook'''
The number of portals will be considerably fewer than Wikipedia due to the sharply focused purpose of this wiki. If you wish to suggest terms, definitions, or research for the wiki, please use the [[Add and Change Requests]] page to do that.
 
An electronic laboratory notebook (eln, or elab notebook) is a software package that eliminates the need for paper based lab notebooks by providing access and manipulation of data from a informatics system.
 
'''Laboratory Informatics'''
 
A platform that allows scientific data to be captured, migrated, processed, and interpreted for immediate use, as well as stored and managed to support future product development.
 
'''Scientific Data Management System'''
 
A system that captures, catalogs and archives ALL data generated by ALL laboratory instruments (HPLC, MS or Mass Spectrometry) and applications (LIMS, analytical applications, electronic laboratory notebooks) in a compliant way, serving up the data in an application and platform independent way to a variety of informatics applications.

Revision as of 21:56, 15 April 2011

This page is going to be similar to the Wikipedia concept of portals. Wikipedia says of portals:

"The idea of a portal is to help readers and/or editors navigate their way through Wikipedia topic areas through pages similar to the Main Page. In essence, portals are useful entry-points to Wikipedia content."

The number of portals will be considerably fewer than Wikipedia due to the sharply focused purpose of this wiki. If you wish to suggest terms, definitions, or research for the wiki, please use the Add and Change Requests page to do that.