Notebook, electronic laboratory

Within a very short space of time—perhaps only the last 5 years, there has been an explosion of interest in electronic laboratory notebook systems in general, and particularly within the drug discovery community. In large part... 

An electronic laboratory notebook system ( e-notebook or ELN ) addresses several different areas that impact upon scientific productivity, including time efficiencies and communication of information. 

Achour, Z., Laidboeur, T., Gien, O., Musolino, A., Bon, X., Grimaud, B. (2005) Sanofi-Synthelabo Chemical Development and the Development of an Electronic Laboratory Notebook. Organic Process Research Development, 8, 983-997. 

Today, pharmaceutical companies are linking CDS to business systems such as SAP, chemical structure databases, electronic laboratory notebooks, and corporate data warehousing solutions. Many commonly used software products utilize COM Automation (Microsoft s Component Object Model) to provide a powerful array of programmable objects that allow seamless connections between applications. 

The legal community of internal legal counsel, third-party firms and the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is increasing its involvement in the issue. As the scientific community reacts to the availability of electronic laboratory notebook solutions, the pressure on internal counsel to form an opinion increases. Sometimes, the reaction of internal counsel is to seek external advice as well as look to the US PTO for possible rulings. ... 

SCIENTIFIC DOCUMENTATION — ELECTRONIC LABORATORY NOTEBOOKS (ELNs)... 

Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) is a laboratory software for authoring, managing, and sharing electronic information for the purpose of scientific documentation. 

Scientific Workspaces are a specialized concept of electronic laboratory notebook software underlying less restrictive regulations than electronic scientific documents. They are containers designed for personal preparation of data as well as for effective organization, sharing, and publishing of information within a team. 

What constitutes an electronic analytical laboratory -Figure IAl-1 shows the major components of a paperles.H laboratory. First, a computerized analytical instrument is required to acquire, manipulate, and process the data. Ific instrumcnl may he connected to its own data system, as are many chromatography instruments, or directly lo an electronic laboratory notebook. The notebook ofien provides input lo a aI)oratory information management system (LI MS), as discussed in section 4H-2, and to a laboratory data-archiving system. In some cases, information from the data system or notebook flows directly into archival storage. Several of these components are discussed In this case study. 

SMIRKS have been recently used for searching chemical reactions in electronic laboratory notebooks [34]. Another identifier used is RInchi which creates a unique data string to describe a reaction based on Inchi software and a rxn input file [35], For instance, the RInchi output generated by submitting the rxn file for the Diels-Alder reaction at the RInchi project server [36] shows the RAuxInfo and long and short RInChiKeys (Fig. 6.44). 

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