Electronic laboratory notebooks in a public–private partnership

This report shares the experience during selection, implementation and maintenance phases of an electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) in a public–private partnership project and comments on user’s feedback. In particular, we address which time constraints for roll-out of an ELN exist in granted proje...

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Published in:PeerJ. Computer science 2016-09, Vol.2, p.e83, Article e83
Main Authors: Vaas, Lea A.I, Witt, Gesa, Windshügel, Björn, Bosin, Andrea, Serra, Giovanni, Bruengger, Adrian, Winterhalter, Mathias, Gribbon, Philip, Levy-Petelinkar, Cindy J, Kohler, Manfred
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antibiotics
Antimicrobial agents
Archives & records
Biology
Collaboration
Consortia
Data retrieval
Documentation
Drug resistance
Electronic laboratory notebook
Experiments
Feedback
IMI
Information sharing
Innovations
Innovative Medicines Initiative
Intellectual property
Internships
Laboratories
Life sciences
New Drugs for Bad Bugs
Open access
Pharmaceutical industry
Public-private sector cooperation
public–private partnership
R&D
Research & development
Software
User groups
Working groups
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Summary:This report shares the experience during selection, implementation and maintenance phases of an electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) in a public–private partnership project and comments on user’s feedback. In particular, we address which time constraints for roll-out of an ELN exist in granted projects and which benefits and/or restrictions come with out-of-the-box solutions. We discuss several options for the implementation of support functions and potential advantages of open access solutions. Connected to that, we identified willingness and a vivid culture of data sharing as the major item leading to success or failure of collaborative research activities. The feedback from users turned out to be the only angle for driving technical improvements, but also exhibited high efficiency. Based on these experiences, we describe best practices for future projects on implementation and support of an ELN supporting a diverse, multidisciplinary user group based in academia, NGOs, and/or for-profit corporations located in multiple time zones.
ISSN:2376-5992
2376-5992
DOI:10.7717/peerj-cs.83