eLabFTW

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DescriptionWith eLabFTW you get a secure, modern and compliant system to track your experiments efficiently but also manage your lab with a powerful and versatile database. If you do experimental research, then eLabFTW is for you. Whatever your field is. It is also well suited for universities, tinkerers or biotech companies. Keep track of your experiments and collaborate with your team easily! (Quelle: Anbieterseite)
ProviderDeltablot
Information on ProviderDeltablot is a french company producing open source software and secure, quality code.
Activity Statusactive
Information on ActiveVersion 4.9.0/November 2023
Last checked on02.11.2023
Provider's data safety and data security strategiesfree version: no provider cloud; instructions for setting up own backups of docker installation and instructions for configure LDAP and SAML2 authentication on website; "Strong encryption, good practices and modern codebase offers the best security for your data. The only ELN with A+ rating on Mozilla's Observatory."
Reference usersApplication at the Institute for Functional Interfaces of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Helmholtz Program Materials System Engineering (https://www.mse.kit.edu/RDM.php), contact: Alexei Nefedov, alexei.nefedov@kit.edu and Matthias Schwotzer, matthias.schwotzer@kit.edu, Description: As of June 2022: A good 30 employees actively use elabFTW (the standard version without extensions); the system is also made available to employees of a neighboring institute at KIT. Depending on the experimental method, some students use elabFTW and Chemotion in parallel (here, special modules are used that were specially programmed by the Chemotion development team).
Heidelberg University, University Computing Centre; contact: Alexander Haller, alexander.haller@urz.uni-heidelberg.de or elabftw@uni-heidelberg.de; description: as of October 2023: elabFTW is to become the campus ELN for the university and possibly also the hospital, it is hosted on a central instance at the computer center with currently about 550 active users. Beta mode has been completed, so the service has been operating productively since October 1, 2023. (https://www.urz.uni-heidelberg.de/en/service-catalogue/software-and-applications/elabftw)
Reviewshttps://blog.f1000.com/2021/11/02/elabftw-electronic-labatory-notebook/; https://f1000research.com/articles/10-292; https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.00146; https://medevel.com/elabftw-manage-any-laboratory-with-this-amazing-open-source-software/; https://medium.com/phd-to-ceo/an-open-source-stack-for-physical-science-startups-c83266852efc; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352902361_Data_Management_at_the_SEM_Facility_for_Diagnostics_and_Plasma_Surface_Technology?channel=doi&linkId=60ded7b7458515d6fbf293e2&showFulltext=true
Exit strategyhttps://blog.f1000.com/2021/11/02/elabftw-electronic-labatory-notebook/; https://f1000research.com/articles/10-292; https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.00146; https://medevel.com/elabftw-manage-any-laboratory-with-this-amazing-open-source-software/; https://medium.com/phd-to-ceo/an-open-source-stack-for-physical-science-startups-c83266852efc; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352902361_Data_Management_at_the_SEM_Facility_for_Diagnostics_and_Plasma_Surface_Technology?channel=doi&linkId=60ded7b7458515d6fbf293e2&showFulltext=true
Communityhttps://github.com/elabftw/elabftw/discussions
Known usersUniversität Düsseldorf, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Universität Darmstadt, TH Clausthal-Zellerfeld
General
LicenseClosed Source, Open Source, hosted (commercial) versions available
PricingChargeable / Paid for / fee-based, Free, Independent of number of users, free version; pro support 760 €/yr; pro hosting 3985 €/yr; PRO Hosting SecNumCloud 6985 €/yr
VersionsDemo, Live Demo, Demo hosted by NFDI: https://demo.chemotion.scc.kit.edu/ Demo
Location of providerFrance
Usability
Customizable user interfaceCustomizable user interface
LanguagesEnglish, Freely extensible, multilingual interface
SupportOnline documentation, Support by provider, User training (online, on site), depending on version
Usage statisticsNo Input
Offline functionalitiesoffline cache not available
Core functions (Daily work)
Data inputWith internal links, Sketches, Chemical editor, With external links, Table editor, Plain text editor, scheduler
Data import (formats)Image formats, Document formats, Compressed formats, MS Office formats, Structured formats, Table formats, Scientific formats, csv, zip (Only zip files generated by eLabFTW), json, automatic import, importing data from a .eln archive generated by any ELN software conforming to the specification (https://github.com/TheELNConsortium/TheELNFileFormat/blob/master/SPECIFICATION.md)
Data import (method)Drag & Drop / File Chooser
Data exportFormats suitable for publication, Formats suitable for long term archiving, PDF, ZIP, CSV, JSON; timestamped pdf wirh the corresponding .asn1 token
TemplatesDefine own templates, Import from internet sources
Search functionsDatabase queries, Full text search, Advanced search, quick search, search with tags, filter functions
CollaborationRights management, Role management, sharing settings; administrator privileges
Compliance with legal requirements
Preservation of evidenceTimestamping
ComplianceFERPA, FISMA, HIPAA, Good Laboratory Practice (GLP)
Extended functions (Daily work)
Laboratory management functionsMaterials database
Integrations and extensionsChemDoodle, plug-ins not available
Automationno input
Device connectionWithout device connection
Project management toolsCalendar, Project management
WorkflowsWith workflows, Project-related workflows, Cross-project workflows, hyperlinks
Integration in RDM and IT environment
Application programming interfacesOther API, Python library, REST API, Javacript, API online documentation
Controlled vocabularyNo input
Data accessBrowser based
Data storage locationCloud, Local, Cloud
Type of external cloud
Location of data storage or processing
Level of data protection (e.g. certification)
Transport encryption
Data storage encryption
Access control
Guaranteed SLAs
Interval of Data Backups
Number of Data Backups
Data Backups Encrypted
Template for data processing agreement (DPA), including the technical and organizational measures (TOM)
Authentication methods
User account security measures
Usage optionOn-premises, Software as a Service
Server operating systemmulti-platform (server or client)

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VersionDateSummary
2025-06-17 11:31:05
Newest version: 5.2.5
2024-08-14 07:53:13
Subject: disciplines of chemistry added
2024-08-13 07:23:53
chemistry added
2024-08-13 07:20:41
Subject: disciplines of chemistry added (correction)
2024-01-17 09:37:55
Versionen bearbeitet: Demo by NFDI
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2023-02-24 11:01:07
Neuen Referenzuser eingefügt: Uni Heidelberg
2022-12-12 12:49:47
2022-06-23 10:00:33
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