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eLabFTW

eLabFTW is an open source electronic lab notebook manager for research teams.

It lets you store and organize your research experiments and related data like sample numbers easily and can be accessed via the browser. Running in a linux container and using a MySQL database, it can be used to store data persistently.

eLabFTW Instance at UFZ.

Documentation of eLabFTW. Gitlab repository of the project.

Electronic Lab Notebooks?

An electronic lab notebook (ELN) is a software for documenting research work to replace paper laboratory notebooks to document research, experiments, and procedures performed in a laboratory.

A central aspect is the joint work with several people and the networking of scientific equipment. At the same time, loss-free data transfer should also be ensured and should lead to uncomplicated merging of different measurement data.