Re: [gentoo-science] elektronic lab book

[Markus Dittrich <markusle@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, Olivier Fisette wrote:

> On Saturday, 16 September 2006 10:38, Norman Warthmann wrote:
>> I am having my eyes open for an electronic way of keeping a lab book
>> for my experiments for quite some time now, however to my surprise,
>> it seems there is none open source. I am wondering how people in the
>> science herd are organizing their day by day experiments.
>
> Hi Norman,
>
> There are open source ELN and LIMS such as OpenSourceELN
> (www.opensourceeln.org) and HalX (Prilusky et al. 2005,
> halx.genomics.eu.org), but I personally prefer to use text files,
> directories, vim and a few shell scripts to keep track of my day-to-day work.
> I never felt the need for anything more complex. ;)
>
> Cheers,
>

Same here! I mostly use README files combined with a suitable
directory structure in addition to a good old paper lab 
notebook. I also use cvs/subversion to keep track of changes
to scripts, analysis routines, data files, and for paper writing.

The only decent and usable electronic notebook I've seen
is notetaker, which, unfortunately, is only available on OS X.
http://www.aquaminds.com/

best,
Markus

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