Electronic lab notebook systems update 2

Some more suggestions on electronic lab notebooks (see previous post for more detail).

• ourExperiment
• http://openatrium.com/
• Zoho notebook

The friendfeed discussion is extensive so check there for more information too.

Possible electronic lab notebook systems - update

Well, I opened up a great can of worms today with a Twitter/Friendfeed post:


"Am looking for systems for my lab to make electronic lab notebooks - suggestions? wiki? OWW? software?"


And have gotten some great responses so far from my various social networking circles and I thought I would centralize them here.  At the bottom I will post some of the raw responses.  Here is a current summary


Suggested things to look at so far

• Basecamp
• Evernote
• Word documents in notebook layout
• Circus ponies notebook
• Google docs and Dropbox
• WordPress blogs, versioned, subscribe to RSS feeds of your student's work, HUGE GPL community.
• Ontowiki
• Open Wet Ware
• SmartPens such as ones from LiveScribe
• Google wave

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From Twitter:

• iddux @phylogenomics basecamp
• srhymes @phylogenomics have you tried Evernote? I use that for a lab notebook and love it! And it syncs across home, work, iphone, iPad...
• MeadGal @phylogenomics I like a word document in notebook layout. I tried labassistant from mekentosj and i see it working for some, just not me.

• iGenomics @phylogenomics Depends on what you want. We've developed a software -BioRhythm to track Bioinformaics project progress like twitter a msg.
• kbradnam @phylogenomics How important is sharing, cross-platform accessibility, and offline access?
• phylogenomics @kbradnam #1 = ease of use, #2 = sharing, #3 = cross platform
• kbradnam @phylogenomics Evernote would work well in some ways (cross platform, desktop + phone clients etc), but it stores data in its own format…
• kbradnam @phylogenomics But the exporting options for Evernote are a bit weak. See http://bit.ly/zRx1
• jobadge @phylogenomics @kbradnam @richardbadge uses a wiki on our VLE Blackboard as lab book http://ff.im/lDrSf
• rachelss @phylogenomics Try Circus Ponies' Notebook
• kbradnam @phylogenomics Here is a list of many online notebook tools (http://bit.ly/8jK9), though I think a wiki or Evernote would also work well.
• kbradnam @phylogenomics We use Google Docs & Dropbox a lot in our lab. I'm hoping that HTML5 will eventually bring syncing of docs to a local DB.
• jrmiller2 @phylogenomics google wave seems ideal
• Miss__Tina @phylogenomics I'm on a internal review committee for this kind of stuff for one of my pharma clients. It's a nightmare.
• phylogenomics @Miss__Tina Couldn't agree more; been looking at this for years & nothing jumps out at me yet
• Miss__Tina @phylogenomics We also have 2 separate US docs from rest of world docs when they use the cmputr kiosks. Not allowed 2 read the same stuff.

FriendFeed had a wealth of useful information:

Also got some useful feedback from Eric Alm on Facebook who said they use Smart pens from LiveScribe.com