introduction to sparklix, an electronic lab notebook

ELNsElectronic

Lab Notebooks

What’s available in the paper?

Assist in the exhausting search for the right solution

a pool of ELN solutions available in the market

their primary market audience

touches upon the evolution of the vendor landscape from 2006-2008

This market flood of ELN technology has brought about both +ve and –ve effects.

Pros

• Companies now have the ability to choose from a wide variety of vendors

• Competition leads to lower market prices per seat and for concurrent use

• Quality of product is continuously improved to stay ahead of the competition

Cons

• The search for the right solution can be exhausting

• ELN upstarts can lack stability and go out of business or get bought out by others

List of ELNs

Axiope

Sparklix ::: NIH e-Notebook MISSION

No more paper notebooks, one place for all lab data, Save the forests.

Easy search for old experiments/data,Save the Aspirin.

Sharing data with others easily,Save your car.

Free software for the scientific crowd,Save your wallet.

Sparklix ::: Company Overview

SparkLix Collaborative Lab Notebook - for life science research, its FREE for unlimited use, private and secure.

Research documenting, organizing and sharing your projects, experiments and protocols, including files of any type.

Sparklix, a Recommended ELN

The most simple to use ELN

All needed functionaly

Great tool for coherently organize lab work

Freeware without space and usage limitation

THE HALLMARK of SPARKLIX is EASE of USE

Costof Pro version

$80 /user /year

$40 /user /year (for universities members)

www.sparklix.com

Sparklix - Collaborative Lab Notebook (2010)

How does Sparklix ELN help you collaborate with your colleagues?

Invite ppl to become ur contact

Approval done, experiments and protocol can be shared

Choose to share with specific contacts, so that they can either edit/view it

Setting can be changed any time

You can create projects and assign your contacts to them

Associated information will be accessible by all the project members

How does Sparklix ELN help you manage you results?

Files of any type can be uploaded – images spreadsheets, sequences, etc.When you share an experiments with ur

contacts, the files in the experiment are shared as wellTextual and graphic annotations can be

added to your results.Tables can be created in the experiment. It

can be populated with structured results, like a small-scale spreadsheet.

How can you find your data or data that was shared with you?

You can perform specific search for each type of data – experiments, protocols, files, etc.

You can search by keyword and by date range.