eLabFTW

eLabFTW: An open source laboratory notebook for research labs - Published in JOSS (2017)

https://github.com/elabftw/elabftw

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Repository

:notebook: eLabFTW is the most popular open source electronic lab notebook for research labs.

Basic Info

Host: GitHub
Owner: elabftw
License: agpl-3.0
Language: PHP
Default Branch: master
Homepage: https://www.elabftw.net
Size: 208 MB

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Stars: 1,146
Watchers: 57
Forks: 245
Open Issues: 200
Releases: 321

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docker laboratory lims mysql notebook php

Created about 13 years ago · Last pushed 4 months ago

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Readme Changelog Contributing Funding License Code of conduct Citation Security Governance Codemeta

README.md

elabftw logo

A free, modern, versatile, secure electronic lab notebook for researchers

Official website | Live demo | Documentation | Dedicated hosting

Description

eLabFTW is an electronic lab notebook manager for research teams.

It lets you store and organize your research experiments easily. It also features a database where any kind of objects (such as antibodies, plasmids, cell lines, boxes, etc.) can be stored. It is accessed via the browser. Several research teams can be hosted on the same installation. This means eLabFTW can be installed at the institute level and host all team members at the same place. This is what is done at in many research institutions around the globe. It is also a great solution for companies looking into improving the traceability and reproducibility of their processes.

Features

Lab notebook for experiments
Database for resources (lab reagents, equipment, storage, cell lines, chemical products, etc...)
Trusted timestamping
Blockchain timestamping
Import and export in various formats
Calendar to manage booking of equipment
Support for various scientific file formats
Molecule editor
LaTeX support
Todolist
Public REST API
Available in 21 languages
Advanced permissions system
Audited, secure codebase suitable for sensitive research results
Self contained service that doesn't leak data to third party

How it works

eLabFTW is designed to be installed on a server, and people from the team can log in from their browser.

server client

Installation

eLabFTW can easily be installed on any GNU/Linux server. It requires at least 512 MB of RAM (1 GB recommended) and 300 MB of disk space. Installation is done through Docker, so Docker needs to be installed on the server. Since it runs in a Docker container, php, webservers or mysql do not have to be installed on your server. Everything is provided by the containers so different versions and extensions do not matter. This makes upgrading versions much easier.

The documentation explains everything:

Installation instructions

Contributing

eLabFTW is a collaborative project. Your contributions are very welcome! Have a look at the contributing page to see how you can help with translation or code.

Security

See SECURITY.md.

Support

Community support

Free support is available through GitHub issues. Please open an issue if you have a problem, want to make a suggestion, ask a question or discuss a feature.

You can also join the chat room on Gitter.

Commercial support

PRO support and professional hosting are available from Deltablot.

Stay tuned

Subscribe to the newsletter to be notified when a new release is out!

Or use GitHub to follow releases:

release watch

Funding

eLabFTW is distributed without charge. If you find this project useful, please consider making a small donation either:

as a GitHub Sponsor
or with Liberapay

Gold sponsors

This project is backed by Deltablot company.

Atelier de la donnée ADOC Lorraine (projet financé avec le soutien du Fonds national pour la Science ouverte)
Department for the Development of Innovative Digital Use – French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development
Institut Curie – Centre de Recherche
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center – University of Freiburg, Germany
Georg-August-University Goettingen - Institute of Inorganic Chemistry

Related projects

API libraries

elabftw/elabapi-python: python library for interacting with APIv2
elabftw/elabapi-javascript-example: example code for interacting with APIv2 through JavaScript

Communities

The ELN Consortium: a consortium of ELN vendors interested in improving interoperability between ELNs

Importing data from another ELN

Importing data from RSpace: A python script to import .eln files from RSpace into eLabFTW
Importing data from LabFolder: A python script to import data from LabFolder into eLabFTW, using their API

Third party libraries or scripts

These projects were created by users of eLabFTW, check them out if interested!

elAPI: a powerful, extensible API client for eLabFTW developed at the University Computing Centre of University of Heidelberg
pyelabdata: provides functions for simple one-line access to data stored in eLabFTW via Python
elabftw-teamupload: Synchronize teamgroups and teams with users from Excel
Reporting Dashboard: Collection of scripts to create a reporting dashabord for eLabFTW SysAdmins

Deprecated projects using retired api v1

din14970/elabftwqrprint: python library to print QR codes from database objects
shabihsherjeel/nionswiftelabftwplugin: python plugin for Nionswift
iam-cms/elabapy-cli: command line interface for eLabFTW API
Elab::Client: perl module for eLab API by Andreas K. Hüttel
LabView client: LabView client library by @plasmapper
Matlab client: Matlab package to facilitate working with eLabFTW API

Unofficial documentation

Contributors

Made with contrib.rocks.

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Thank you for using eLabFTW. I hope it will bring happiness to your lab ;)

Owner

Name: elabftw
Login: elabftw
Kind: organization
Location: Paris, France

Website: https://www.elabftw.net
Twitter: elabftw
Repositories: 13
Profile: https://github.com/elabftw

Electronic lab notebook for research teams

JOSS Publication

eLabFTW: An open source laboratory notebook for research labs

Published

April 14, 2017

DOI

10.21105/joss.00146

Volume 2, Issue 12, Page 146

Authors

Nicolas CARPi

Institut Curie UMR144/CNRS 26 rue d'Ulm 75005 PARIS, France

Alexander Minges

Institute of Biochemical Plant Physiology, Heinrich Heine University 40204 Düsseldorf, Germany

Matthieu Piel

Institut Curie UMR144/CNRS 26 rue d'Ulm 75005 PARIS, France

Editor

Christopher R. Madan

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title: "eLabFTW: An open source laboratory notebook for research labs"
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Last synced: 5 months ago

All Time

Total Commits: 8,480
Total Committers: 50
Avg Commits per committer: 169.6
Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.175

Past Year

Commits: 643
Committers: 13
Avg Commits per committer: 49.462
Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.148

Top Committers

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All Time

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Total pull requests: 417
Average time to close issues: 3 months
Average time to close pull requests: 6 days
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eLabFTW

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