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Some Definitions, edited, from Water's glossary:

Electronic Laboratory Notebook

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.