Abstract
Reports of non-replicable research demand new methods of research data management. Electronic laboratory notebooks (ELNs) are suggested as tools to improve the documentation of research data and make them universally accessible. In a self-guided approach, we introduced the open-source ELN eLabFTW into our life-science lab group and, after using it for a while, think it is a useful tool to overcome hurdles in ELN introduction by providing a combination of properties making it suitable for small life-sceience labs, like ours. We set up our instance of eLabFTW, without any further programming needed. Our efforts to embrace open data approach by introducing an ELN fits well with other institutional organized ELN initiatives in academic research and our goals towards data quality management.
Highlights
Electronic laboratory notebooks (ELNs) are suggested as tools to improve the documentation of research data and make them universally accessible
In a self-guided approach, we introduced the open-source ELN eLabFTW into our life-science lab group and, after using it for a while, think it is a useful tool to overcome hurdles in ELN introduction by providing a combination of properties making it suitable for small life-sceience labs, like ours
The paragraph about why eLabFTW is useful for EQIPD as well, has been revised and the last paragraph was streamlined
Summary
The developers of eLabFTW being researchers themselves, provided a general purpose ELN with limited features, but a powerful database and search function Making it easy to learn and use, yet very suitable for all kinds of research fields. It consists of an Experiment section, used for documenting experiments with a simple built in text editor and a Database section, which can be used to create entries for all kinds of items like plasmids, enzymes, primers, etc.
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