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LabArchives, LLC
Founded2009
HeadquartersCarlsbad, California, U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Earl B. Beutler, CEO
ProductsSoftware, Workflow Solutions, Professional Edition, Classroom Edition
Websitewww.labarchives.com

Supporting Laboratories & Data in the Digital Age

LabArchives, LLC was founded in 2009 by a team of experts in the development of scientific and academic software and publishing for the higher-education community. It was established to create an affordable and easy-to-use solution to the problem of laboratory organization and collaboration. It is used by over 120,000 scientists on 6 continents including two Nobel Laureates (Medicine, 2011 & Chemistry, 2012) to document, store, organize, share, and publish laboratory research and data.[1]

LabArchives is a cloud-based software application to replace and extend the functionality of a traditional paper laboratory notebook. Per Chris Tachibana (Science, 2014), LabArchives "removes the cost barrier for scientists and ensures proper archiving of potentially patentable results."[2] This electronic lab notebook or ELN was developed by LabArchives and supports all types of professional researchers in addition to providing a classroom edition to assist instructional lab courses.[3][2] Since 2014, LabArchives has been an approved Internet2 NET+ ELN which provides the security and usability requirements necessary to assist the unique needs of the higher education community. [4]

ELNs are now a common solution to the problems of traditional paper laboratory notebooks providing more stable, searchable, and sharable lab data. LabArchives too offers a research workflow tool called Professional Edition, to manage data and to protect the intellectual property rights of an organization. Researchers utilize LabArchives to store data, annotate, document process and results, publish protocols, archive results, store images, and document the scientific method.

Academia Embrace Campus-Wide ELNs

While ELNs are becoming widely adopted by industry labs, the use of ELNs in academic settings is not as established. In an effort to support research educators and students, LabArchives collaborated with many educational institutions to pilot and study the particular needs of this community.[5]  Several studies were presented at the 2014 Biennial Conference on Chemical Education[6] and

  • Provided an assessment of student perceptions about the usefulness of LabArchives’ ELN in the laboratory, the software learning curve, record keeping, and efficiency of sharing results.[7]
  • Demonstrated that using LabArchives’ ELN resulted in an enhanced learning experience for the students.[8]
  • Showed an increase in the quality of student notebooks and allows greater supervision of both student work and teaching assistant grading.[9]

Other studies of academic pilot programs verified overwhelmingly positive responses to using LabArchives from students and faculty. For example, the results from the University of Wisconsin-Madison after implementing LabArchives in their Biomedical Engineering Design courses “proved to be a valuable experience.”[10]

The result of these endeavors is LabArchive’s Classroom Edition ELN for use in educational settings with specific functionality built for instructors and students. This ELN considers the need to train students in the proper application of the scientific method and has features to enable instructors and teaching assistants to manage, engage, monitor, and evaluate student’s lab work with 24 hour access in real-time.

Beyond benefits to students and instructors, ELNs are helping academic institutions ensure research integrity and keeping their laboratory research data secure (a growing problem),[11]. Providing control of their intellectual property allows institutions to meet requirements for funding agency data management plans. As such, Universities are making the transition to paper-free laboratories and to date, many institutions have even chosen LabArchives to launch enterprise-wide licenses.


Scientific Workflow and Scholarly Publishing

Data citation and discovery is a process similar to referencing and locating a book or journal articles in research publications. While the importance of and need for discovering data through citation mechanisms is growing, the mechanisms are inconsistent and often absent from the scholarly publishing process.[12] To facilitate the increasing imperative of data citation and discovery, LabArchives added the ability to assign digital object identifiers (DOI) in 2011.[13]. In response to the imperative of reproducible research and transparency, they partnered with BioMed Central in 2012 to make datasets that support peer-reviewed publications available and permanently linked to online publications.[14] LabArchives interfaces with leading scientific and laboratory software products to support lab data workflow, including GraphPad Prism in 2010 and iChemLabs (ChemDoodle) in 2014. The 2015 partnership with Vernier Software & Technology and their Logger Pro software enables students to streamline file saving and uploading and to integrate their data collection process with the ELN.[15]

Important Dates

  • 2009: LabArchives founded
  • 2010: Professional Edition Commercially Released
  • 2011: Classroom Edition Commercially Released
  • 2012: CalTech[16] site license
  • 2013: Mobile apps released (iOS and Android) | Site license at Yale[17]; Cornell[18]
  • 2014: Approved Internet2 NET+ Provider | Site license at University of Wisconsin-Madison[19]; University of Sydney[20]
  • 2015: Site license at School of Clinical Sciences, Monash University[21]; University of Pittsburg[22]; MIT[23]

References

  1. ^ Hrynaszkiewicz, Iain (2012-04-04). "LabArchives and BioMed Central: a new platform for publishing scientific data". BioMed Central blog. BioMed Central. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  2. ^ a b Tachibana, Chris (2014). "The Paperless Lab". Science. 345 (6195): 468. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  3. ^ "Vernier and LabArchives Make It Easier for Higher Education Students to Export and Analyze Scientific Data". PR Newswire. 2015-10-14. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  4. ^ "Unfolding trends". Digital Learning. March 2015.
  5. ^ Bogdan, Kristin; Flowers, Themba (2014). "There's an App for That: Electronic Lab Notebooks: Supporting Laboratory Data in the Digital Era". Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship (74). doi:10.5062/F4V9861X. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
  6. ^ "2014 Biennial Conference on Chemical Education". 2014-02-12. Retrieved 2016-06-28.
  7. ^ Rovira-Figueroa, Nahyr D.; Eaton, Lafayette (August 5, 2014). "Students' perceptions about the use of the electronic notebooks in a general chemistry laboratory". 2014 Biennial Conference on Chemical Education. Grand Valley State University.
  8. ^ Jensen, Mark B. (August 5, 2014). "Electronic notebooks in the analytical teaching laboratory". 2014 Biennial Conference on Chemical Education. Grand Valley State University.
  9. ^ Driessen, Michelle (August 3, 2014). "Integrating an electronic lab notebook and lab manual content: Using a flexible digital platform to facilitate problem-based experiments in general chemistry". 2014 Biennial Conference on Chemical Education. Grand Valley State University.
  10. ^ Puccinelli, John P.; Nimunkar, Amit Janardhan (2014). "An Experience with Electronic Laboratory Notebooks in Real-World, ClientBased BME Design Courses". 121st ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. American Society for Engineering Education.
  11. ^ Smith, Frank (2014-10-06). "EDUCAUSE 2014: Cyberattacks Are a Growing Problem for Higher Education". EdTech. Retrieved 2016-04-25.
  12. ^ "Data Citation". USGS: Science for a changing World. USGS. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  13. ^ "LabArchives and "doi's"". Labarchives' Blog. LabArchives. 2011-04-19. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
  14. ^ Hrynaszkiewicz, Iain (2012-04-04). "LabArchives and BioMed Central: a new platform for publishing scientific data". BioMed Central blog. BioMed Central. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  15. ^ "Vernier and LabArchives Make It Easier for Higher Education Students to Export and Analyze Scientific Data". PR Newswire. 2015-10-14. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  16. ^ "LabArchives Site License". Retrieved 29 April 2016.
  17. ^ Flowers, Themba (August 12, 2013). "Academic IT Solutions Introduces Electronic Lab Notebooks". Yale Information Technology Services. Yale University. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
  18. ^ "Cornell University Adopts LabArchives for Management of Laboratory Data". Lab Manager. August 6, 2013. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
  19. ^ "Electronic Lab Notebooks now available". News. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  20. ^ "ENOTEBOOKS". Research Reports. The University of Sydney. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
  21. ^ "LabArchives - Roll-out in 2016 for all NEW graduate students". School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health Weekly eNews. Monash University. September 28, 2015. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
  22. ^ Graham, Jay (February 18, 2016). "Technology Corner: Ditching paper for digital". Technology Corner. University of Pittsburg. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
  23. ^ "LabArchives Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)". MIT Information Systems and Technology. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
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