ElabFTW

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elabFTW
ElabFTW-logo.png
Developer(s) Nicolas Carpi
Stable release
3.4.9 / 2020-04-27
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Web application
License AGPLv3
Website www.elabftw.net OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

eLabFTW is a web application written by Nicolas Carpi in PHP which can be used to create personal and common logbooks. It has been developed at the Curie Institute originally. Besides there, it is used on universities around the world [1]

Contents

eLabFTW is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License as free software. It is translated into seven languages.

Description

eLabFTW is a free and open-source lab book. It is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database. Docker containers are also available. Among the various features are

Platforms

eLabFTW is a PHP package with Mysql database. Therefore, it can be executed on most servers. Furthermore, the docker containers allow to run it almost everywhere.

Usage

eLabFTW is used by various universities, like University of Alberta, Berkeley University, Hanover Medical School, Cardiff University and UMC Utrecht [2]

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References

  1. "elabFTW documentation" . Retrieved 10 December 2019.
  2. "Helmholtz Institute" (PDF). Retrieved 1 May 2020.