:notebook: eLabFTW is the most popular open source electronic lab notebook for research labs.
A free, modern, versatile, secure electronic lab notebook for researchers
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DescriptioneLabFTW is an electronic lab notebook manager for research teams.
It lets you store and organize your research experiments easily. It also features a database where any kind of objects (such as antibodies, plasmids, cell lines, boxes, etc.) can be stored. It is accessed via the browser. Several research teams can be hosted on the same installation. This means eLabFTW can be installed at the institute level and host all team members at the same place. This is what is done at in many research institutions around the globe. It is also a great solution for companies looking into improving the traceability and reproducibility of their processes.
FeatureseLabFTW is designed to be installed on a server, and people from the team can log in from their browser.
InstallationeLabFTW can easily be installed on any GNU/Linux server. It requires at least 512 MB of RAM (1 GB recommended) and 300 MB of disk space. Installation is done through Docker, so Docker needs to be installed on the server. Since it runs in a Docker container, php, webservers or mysql do not have to be installed on your server. Everything is provided by the containers so different versions and extensions do not matter. This makes upgrading versions much easier.
The documentation explains everything:
Installation instructions ContributingeLabFTW is a collaborative project. Your contributions are very welcome! Have a look at the contributing page to see how you can help with translation or code.
SecuritySee SECURITY.md.
Support Community supportFree support is available through GitHub issues. Please open an issue if you have a problem, want to make a suggestion, ask a question or discuss a feature.
You can also join the chat room on Gitter.
Commercial supportPRO support and professional hosting are available from Deltablot.
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FundingeLabFTW is distributed without charge. If you find this project useful, please consider making a small donation either:
as a GitHub Sponsor
or with Liberapay
This project is backed by Deltablot company.
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