LabArchives

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LabArchives
Developer(s) LabArchives LLC
Initial release2009
Type Electronic lab notebook (ELN)
Website www.labarchives.com

LabArchives is a line of cloud-based electronic lab notebooks (ELNs) sold by LabArchives, LLC, which was founded in 2009 by Earl B. Beutler and Kirk Schneider. [1]

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LabArchives partnered with BioMed Central in 2012 to store and identify datasets that support peer-reviewed publications. [2] Datasets can be assigned digital object identifiers (DOI) to create a permanent link between the scientific article and the datasets that support it. [3]

LabArchives collaborated with many educational institutions to pilot and study the particular needs of this community. Instructors in a bioengineering course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison published results of a pilot effort using the software to teach the course in 2014, [4] and Yale published a report of adopting it for research labs in 2014. [5] Several studies were also presented at the 2014 Biennial Conference on Chemical Education. [6]

Since 2014, LabArchives has been an Internet2 approved ELN. [7]

LabArchives also offers a laboratory inventory program [8] as well as scheduling software for management of resources [9]

LabArchives was acquired by Insightful Science (now Dotmatics) in 2021 [10]

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  9. "Scheduler". LabArchives. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
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