MyLabBook

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MyLabBook
Developer(s) Awake Software, LLC
Initial release April 15, 2020 (2020-04-15) (1.0)[1]
Written in PHP and JavaScript
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Laboratory informatics software
License(s) GNU General Public License v2.0
Website MyLabBook.org

MyLabBook is a "free low-code" open-source electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) built on PHP and the Drupal content management system (CMS).

Product history

Sometime around roughly 2009[2], University of Houston's William Kudrle (Biotechnology Program Manager) and Rupa Iyer (Biotechnology Program Director) created the website mylabbook.org as a public exploration of "modular and flexible open-source ELN based on Drupal."[3] They then described MyLab Book as such[4]:

MyLabBook is a community website for exploring how to build a good Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) using the open source content management system called Drupal. Our hypothesis is that by utilizing appropriate Drupal modules, an inexpensive and appropriate ELN can be built for many contexts. This exploration is being developed in conjunction with the University of Houston's biotechnology program.
 
Because Drupal is free and open source and nearly all of its modules are as well, Drupal provides an inexpensive path to building an ELN. It is also relatively easy to set up and is flexible through using appropriate modules from the thousands that are available on the Drupal website. You can also write your own custom modules fairly easily.

By roughly late 2010 to early 2011, the team announced it had built "a fairly capable ELN" based on Drupal for the university's biotechnology program[5], which was stated to have been first put into use in the fall of 2008.[6]

While module files were available for download at the time[7], it's not clear if an actual open-source project was open to the public. By 2016, the website had received a few facelifts, and the university's instance of the ELN was being considered for an upgrade to Drupal 8.[8]

At some point Kudrle began officially working on or supporting the ELN software through his business Awake Software, LLC, founded in 2013.[9][10] By the summer of 2020, the website was updated to note that a code repository for the MyLabBook ELN had been set up on GitHub (April 2020) and the code could be downloaded, installed, and modified.[11][12]

Features

Features of MyLabBook include[13]:

  • flexible Protocol Steps
  • geolocation support for GIS studies
  • highly extensible (e.g., woflows, diagrams, analyses, plotting and chartings, etc.)
  • social networking integration

Hardware/software requirements

Installation requirements, per the MyLabBook website, include[14]:

  • a Linux server
  • Minimum 600 MB disk space for the web app
  • Minimum 200 MB disk space for MySQL database files
  • Apache 2 web server with mod_rewrite
  • MySQL 5.53 database (MariaDB 5.5.20, Percona 5.5.8) or higher, with InnoDB-compatible primary storage engine
  • PHP 7.2 or higher, with minimum memory size of 64MB

Videos, screenshots, and other media

Entities using MyLabBook

  • University of Houston, Biotechnology Program

Further reading


External links

References

  1. ↑ "Initial commit". mylabbook - GitHub. 15 April 2020. https://github.com/mylabbook/mylabbook/commit/45d3afa5eeb61e9a35414d7e6e550466bcfbffb6#diff-b335630551682c19a781afebcf4d07bf978fb1f8ac04c6bf87428ed5106870f5. Retrieved 28 January 2021. 
  2. ↑ Admin (26 October 2009). "Open source ELN alternatives". MyLabBook Blog. University of Houston. Archived from the original on 05 January 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110105104111/http://www.mylabbook.org/node/8. Retrieved 28 January 2021. 
  3. ↑ "About Us - MyLabBook ELN". University of Houston. Archived from the original on 05 January 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110105104024/http://www.mylabbook.org/node/13. Retrieved 28 Janaury 2021. 
  4. ↑ "MyLabBook ELN". University of Houston. Archived from the original on 06 June 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100606164449/http://www.mylabbook.org:80/. Retrieved 28 January 2021. 
  5. ↑ "Background - MyLabBook ELN". University of Houston. Archived from the original on 05 January 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110105093543/http://www.mylabbook.org:80/node/2. Retrieved 28 January 2021. 
  6. ↑ Iyer, R.; Kudrle, W. (2012). "Implementation of an Electronic Lab Notebook to Integrate Research and Education in an Undergraduate Biotechnology Program". Technology Interface International Journal 12 (2): 5–12. http://tiij.org/issues/issues/spring2012/spring_summer_2012.htm. 
  7. ↑ "Downloads - MyLabBook ELN". University of Houston. Archived from the original on 05 January 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110105104050/http://www.mylabbook.org/node/20. Retrieved 28 January 2021. 
  8. ↑ Kudrle, W. (25 March 2016). "Upgrading with a forum". MyLabBook Blog. Archived from the original on 27 June 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20110105104050/http://www.mylabbook.org/node/20. Retrieved 28 January 2021. 
  9. ↑ "Taxable Entity Search". Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. https://mycpa.cpa.state.tx.us/coa/. Retrieved 28 January 2021. "Search for 'Awake Software' or Taxpayers ID# 32051447558" 
  10. ↑ "Awake Software". Awake Software, LLC. http://awakesoft.com/. Retrieved 28 January 2021. 
  11. ↑ "MyLabBook: The Uniquely Free & Flexible ELN". University of Houston. Archived from the original on 07 August 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200807160208/http://www.mylabbook.org/. Retrieved 28 January 2021. 
  12. ↑ Awake Software, LLC. "mylabbook / mylabbook". GitHub. https://github.com/mylabbook/mylabbook. Retrieved 28 January 2021. 
  13. ↑ "Features". University of Houston. https://mylabbook.org/features.php. Retrieved 28 January 2021. 
  14. ↑ "Media and Demo". University of Houston. https://mylabbook.org/media.php. Retrieved 28 January 2021. 
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