The "Lowedown" on Lab Notebooks

Rather than listening to me today, I want to draw your attention to a post by Derek Lowe who writes the "In The Pipeline" blog.

Derek is a chemist who works for a Biotech company in Cambridge, Massachusetts although you would not know that from his blog. That's because the blog is purely his own and is pleasantly and refreshingly biased. In other words, he expresses his own opinions and not those of his employer.

Recently, Derek got around to writing about Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELN), a topic that I have not spent much time discussing on this blog. However, lab automation is a critical component of both discovery and manufacturing and does deserve coverage.

So, if you're interested in this topic, go ahead and click on the hyperlink above. You'll get Derek's opinion about ELN software and as an added bonus, the opinions of over 30 other individuals who were moved to comment on it. And, you'll get to know a little bit about the vendors who provide such software and include IDBS, Cambridgesoft, Enso, Symyx, and EMSL.