[Asis-l] eCAT: Online Electronic Lab Notebook For Scientific Research

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Colleagues/

eCAT: Online Electronic Lab Notebook For Scientific Research/ Nigel H
Goddard , Rory Macneil and Jonathan Ritchie / Automated
Experimentation / 2009 /  1:4  / doi:10.1186/1759-4499-1-4 /
Published: 29 October 2009

Abstract (provisional)

Background

eCAT is an electronic lab notebook (ELN) developed by Axiope Limited.
It is the first online ELN, the first ELN to be developed in close
collaboration with lab scientists, and the first ELN to be targeted at
researchers in non-commercial institutions. [snip]

Results

[snip] More than 100 individuals and groups worldwide then
participated in the beta testing between September 2008 and June 2009.
The generally positive response is reflected in the following quote
about how one lab is making use of eCAT: "Everyone uses it as an
electronic notebook, so they can compile the diverse collections of
data that we generate as biologists, such as images and spreadsheets.
We use to it to take minutes of meetings. We also use it to manage our
common stocks of antibodies, plasmids and so on. Finally, perhaps the
most important feature for us is the ability to link records, reagents
and experiments."

Conclusions

By developing eCAT in close collaboration with lab scientists, Axiope
has come up with a practical and easy to use product that meets the
need of scientists to manage, store and share data online. eCAT is
already being perceived as a product that labs can continue to use as
their data management and sharing grows in scale and complexity.

The complete article is [now] available as a provisional PDF / The
fully formatted PDF and HTML versions are in production [10-29-09]

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