From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GOxai-0001hn-Vc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 14:25:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8HEPdtA024369; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 14:25:39 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8HEPced017123 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 14:25:39 GMT Received: from woodpecker.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3852D64A69 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 14:25:38 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 14:25:38 +0000 (UTC) From: Markus Dittrich To: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] elektronic lab book In-Reply-To: <200609170009.57880.ribosome@gentoo.org> Message-ID: References: <7F5D220B-008D-4F7D-A18D-F1E57FED6639@warthmann.com> <200609170009.57880.ribosome@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-science@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Archives-Salt: 86254fcf-4f7d-4a73-84fc-bd7d5eb86d61 X-Archives-Hash: 8d8186d631bd836cb51c54e44145e51e 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 -- Markus Dittrich (markusle) Gentoo Linux Developer Scientific applications -- gentoo-science@gentoo.org mailing list