List of electronic laboratory notebook software packages

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An electronic lab notebook (also known as electronic laboratory notebook, or ELN) is a computer program designed to replace paper laboratory notebooks. Lab notebooks in general are used by scientists, engineers, and technicians to document research, experiments, and procedures performed in a laboratory. A lab notebook is often maintained to be a legal document and may be used in a court of law as evidence. Similar to an inventor's notebook, the lab notebook is also often referred to in patent prosecution and intellectual property litigation.

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Electronic lab notebooks are a fairly new technology and offer many benefits to the user as well as organizations. For example: electronic lab notebooks are easier to search upon, simplify data copying and backups, and support collaboration amongst many users. [1] ELNs can have fine-grained access controls, and can be more secure than their paper counterparts. [2] They also allow the direct incorporation of data from instruments, replacing the practice of printing out data to be stapled into a paper notebook. [3] This is a list of ELN software packages. It is incomplete, as a recent review listed 96 active & 76 inactive (172 total) ELN products. [4] Notably, this review and other lists of ELN software often do not include widely used generic notetaking software like Onenote, Notion, Jupyter etc, due to their lack ELN nominal features like time-stamping and append-only editing. Some ELNs are web-based; others are used on premise and a few are available for both environments.

ELN Software

NameDeveloper(s)Initial releaseCountry of origin 21 CFR Part 11 Compliance Information
Chemia ELN Chemiasoft Pvt ltd 2016 India [21 CFR Part 11]
Logilab ELN Agaram Technologies 2003 India 21 CFR Part 11 & Data Integrity
LabCollector [5] AgileBio 2002 France [6]
Labii [7] [8] Labii Inc.2016 [9] United States [10]
Colabra Colabra Inc.2021 [11] United States Paid plans [12]
Scispot Scispot.io Inc.2021 [13] [14] Canada
CDD Vault ELN Collaborative Drug Discovery, Inc. 2018 [15] [16] [17] United States
Uncountable Uncountable Inc.2018 [18] [19] United States [20]
Signals Notebook Revvity 2017 [21] United States [22]
Pillar Science Pillar Science2017 [23] Canada
Mbook [24] Mestrelab Research 2015 [25] Spain
SciNote ELN By SciNote LLC [26] and BioSistemika LLC, based on a later published scientific study [27] 2015 [28] United States [29]
Labstep Labstep2015 [30] United Kingdom [31]
RND NOTE [32] Cyberline Co., Ltd.2015 South Korea
Open Science Framework (OSF) Center for Open Science 2013 [33] United States
Labfolder [24] Labforward GmbH2012 Germany [34]
RSpace [24] ResearchSpace2012 [35] United States [36]
Benchling [24] Benchling, Inc.2012 United States [37]
LabGuru Biodata Ltd [38] 2011 [38] United States [39]
Scilligence ELN [40] Scilligence2011 United States
Arxspan ELN Bruker, Inc. 2011 [41] [42] United States [43]
eLabJournal [24] eLabNext2010 The Netherlands [44]
LabArchives LabArchives LLC 2009 [45] United States [46]
Sapio Seamless ELN Sapio Sciences LLC2007 [47] United States
LabWare LabWare ELN 2010 [48] United States [49]
Sapio Seamless ELN Sapio Sciences LLC2007 [50] United States
LabVantage 8 LabVantage Solutions, Inc. 2007 [51] United States [52]
OpreX Informatics Manager Yokogawa Electric 2023 [53] Japan
ChemExplorer Labio a.s. 2023 [54] Czech Republic

Open-source ELN software

ELN softwareLanguage baseLicenseHosted onOther info
Jupyter Python BSD Personal computer or serverWeb application [55]
OpenWetWare PHP GPL v2 MIT
elabFTW PHP GNU AGPLv3 Personal computer or serverDeveloped at Curie Institute, Paris [56]
CFWPELN (Cloneable Free WP ELN) PHP GNU General Public License Personal computer or serverUses WordPress, developed at University of Houston [57]
OpenBIS  [ de ]Java, Python Apache License 2.0 Personal computer or serverDeveloped at ETH Zürich

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