title: A universal open-source Electronic Laboratory Notebook.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Laboratory notebooks remain crucial to the activities of research communities. With the increase in generation of electronic data within both wet and dry analytical laboratories and new technologies providing more efficient means of communication, Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELN) offer equivalent record keeping to paper-based laboratory notebooks (PLN). They additionally allow more efficient mechanisms for data sharing and retrieval, which explains the growing number of commercial ELNs available varying in size and scope but all are increasingly accepted and used by the scientific community. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) having already an LIMS and a Biobank Management System for respectively laboratory workflows and sample management, we have developed a free multidisciplinary ELN specifically dedicated to work notes that will be flexible enough to accommodate different types of data.
  
  
  METHODS
  Information for installation of our freeware ELN with source codes customizations are detailed in supplementary data.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
authors: Genetic Cancer Susceptibility Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 69003 Lyon, France. voegele@iarc.fr
authors: Catherine
authors: C
authors: Voegele
authors: Baptiste
authors: B
authors: Bouchereau
authors: Nivonirina
authors: N
authors: Robinot
authors: James
authors: J
authors: McKay
authors: Philippe
authors: P
authors: Damiecki
authors: Lucile
authors: L
authors: Alteyrac
mesh_terms: D016208:Databases, Factual; D007753:Laboratories; D012984:Software; D057188:Workflow