sciNote

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sciNote
Developer(s) BioSistemika LLC
Initial release February 12, 2016 (2016-02-12) (1.0)[1][2]
Stable release

1.34.0.2  (May 29, 2024; 5 months ago (2024-05-29))

[±]
Preview release none [±]
Written in Ruby on Rails
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Laboratory informatics software
License(s) Mozilla Public License Version 2.0
Website sciNote.net

sciNote is an open-source electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) "that helps you manage your laboratory work and stores all your experimental data in one place."[3]

Product history

sciNote was conceived as an idea in 2014 by a group of life science researchers and software developers at BioSistemika LLC. The team went through focus groups, market analysis, and product design before creating a beta of the software in October 2015.[4] The following month, the group turned to crowd-funding site Kickstarter to acquire additional funding. Regarding why the funds were needed, the team stated: "The biggest challenge is to make it available for everyone on a secure server. To achieve this we need to create a robust user management system and establish a cloud environment."[4] After meeting their funding goal, the team went on to solve those challenges, eventually releasing the source code to the public on February 12, 2016.[1][2] BioSistemika also began to offer hosting and installation/service plans for the software.[5] The developer also announced it would be demonstrating the software at the Experimental Biology 2016 conference in San Diego at the beginning of April 2016.[5]

A new entity sciNote, LLC was created in Wisconsin in May 2016[6], suggesting the sciNote efforts may be handled separately from BioSistemika in the near future. (This page will be updated when more public information becomes available.)

Features

Features of sciNote include[7]:

  • modular
  • timestamping
  • data sharing
  • workflow management
  • tagging and commenting
  • keyword search
  • templating
  • customizable PDF reporting

Hardware/software requirements

Installation requirements for sciNote include:

  • Docker and Ruby on Rails, both of which are automatically downloaded and installed during the installation process.

Consult the readme found on GitHub for more.

Videos, screenshots, and other media

The following videos are available demoing sciNote:

The following documentation exists:

Entities using sciNote

Further reading

External links

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Initial commit". GitHub. GitHub, Inc. 12 February 2016. https://github.com/biosistemika/scinote-web/commit/055298fee87cc260de4f3c5b1761aa5fac56ffc6. Retrieved 01 April 2016. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 sciNote Team (11 February 2016). "sciNote is launched!". Kickstarter. Kickstarter PBC. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2039813795/scinote-open-source-scientific-notebook/posts/1489098. Retrieved 01 April 2016. 
  3. ↑ "biosistemika/scinote-web". GitHub. GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/biosistemika/scinote-web. Retrieved 01 April 2016. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Zupancic, K.. "sciNote - Open Source Scientific Notebook". Kickstarter. Kickstarter PBC. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2039813795/scinote-open-source-scientific-notebook/description. Retrieved 01 April 2016. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "sciNote - Plans". sciNote.net. BioSistemika LLC. http://scinote.net/plans/. Retrieved 01 April 2016.  Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "sNPlans" defined multiple times with different content
  6. ↑ "sciNote, LLC". Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions. https://www.wdfi.org/apps/CorpSearch/Details.aspx?entityID=S109830&hash=1542989105&searchFunctionID=09533f41-f1d6-4fe0-99c8-21cee7de4bbd&type=Simple&q=scinote. Retrieved 15 July 2016. 
  7. ↑ "sciNote - Tour". sciNote.net. BioSistemika LLC. http://scinote.net/tour/. Retrieved 01 April 2016. 
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