I received an email from Alex Lang and he asked about my current use of Electronic Lab Notebooks Hi Dave, I’m a physics graduate student who just started using a WordPress based ELN. I really found your thoughts on ELNs helpful, especially: http://www.davelunt.net/evophylo/2009/03/wordpress-as-eln/ https://speakerdeck.com/davelunt/electronic-lab-notebooks-for-ug-students Since someday I want to be a PI, I had some…
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WordPress ELN and data files
In my previous post I said that I needed to find out about associating data files with electronic lab book entries. I think I’ve got it sorted out now. Imagine you are recording an experiment and want to associate the actual data files with the post of your ELN blog. I don’t mean put the…
WordPress as ELN
In my previous post I said that I had been testing software and decided that the new version of WordPress would be my electronic laboratory notebook (ELN). This post details some of the reasons. WordPress is open software under a GPL license, allowing it to be distributed and modified. I really like this. There is…
Electronic Lab Books 2
Last year I posted about my search for an electronic laboratory notebook (eln). Since then I’ve had experience of several systems, and my ideas have changed quite a bit, so I thought it was time for another post. I listed a number of criteria that I thought were important for my eln. I got it…
Electronic Lab Books
I’ve been thinking recently about how best to organize my research data and experimental records. I’m not sure my needs are the same as everyone else’s, but I doubt they are so very different. Mostly I want to record GenBank searches, phylogenetic analyses, little bits of perl code. Although I support open data, I choose…