Biology E-Notebook
E-Notebook provides a smooth, well-organized interface designed to replace paper laboratory notebooks. With E-notebook, users can easily insert content from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Acrobat PDF, ChemDraw and structured data in lists and tables. Forms are configured with any combination of these. Oracle or SQL support allows organizations to share data, as well as maintain rigorous security and efficient archiving. With E-Notebook, users get the flexibility of a shared drive with the compliance and search benefits of an Oracle database.
E-Notebook has been developed over the last 10 years in close collaboration with many of the world’s top research and development organizations. This development has been facilitated by detailed interactions with leading compliance and intellectual property experts as well as some of the best system architects in R&D. If your organization wants an enterprise electronic laboratory solution, you need look no further.
Discovery Biology
These scientists are involved at the very start of the drug discovery process, as genomics and genetics are essential disciplines used when identifying a disease target. This work is methodical but unscripted, and so requires an electronic notebook pallet that is as free form as its paper predecessor. This is where the benefit of E-Notebook's flexibility is unmistakable. While the system can be set up with rigid form based data entry appropriate for later stage research and development, discovery biology configurations are typically open and boundless. Genomic map and DNA, RNA and protein sequence files can be dragged-and-dropped into E-Notebook, sequencing results can be sent directly from instruments to electronic experiments, and protocols and data can be managed with familiar tools such as Microsoft Word and Excel.
The beauty of capturing data in E-Notebook is that information can be compiled and viewed in a meaningful way. For example, the creation of a new biological strain entails many steps, potentially involving nonconsecutive workdays of various individuals. E-Notebook can generate customized reports that meaningfully summarize the process in real time. These reports are navigable—clicking on each step will bring you to the corresponding experiment.
Assay & Screening Biology
One of E-Notebook's strengths is its ability to integrate with existing electronic methods of data capture, including using it with CambridgeSoft’s BioAssay module to provide full screening experimental support. In addition to this, Microsoft Word and Excel are also embedded directly in E-Notebook, as is image and movie capture. Scientists benefit from the functionality of these tools implanted in a rich, searchable environment. Biological experiments can be managed and organized in a way that is not possible with a traditional file system.
In vivo Experiments/Animal Management
In vivo experiments are important aspects of target discovery and validation, and are critical paths to determine the efficacy of selective therapeutic candidates. CambridgeSoft’s E-Notebook becomes the centralized location to collect, store and interpret in vivo experiment results. Again, when used with BioAssay, the full end-to-end experimental workflow is supported, from creation, to data analysis and quality control, to summary and reporting. In conjunction with in vivo experiments, animal housing and breeding can also be tracked. Traditionally, the workflow consists of paper-based record keeping across the animal facility, lab bench, and researchers desktop. With E-Notebook, paper tracking and recording is eliminated. Instead, form tools can be designed to:
- Track animal status
- Track animal pedigree
- Record Genotype
- Create mating records
- Create litter records
- Track experimental data
