eLabNext launches an extension of Microsoft Office Online Server (OOS) integration in eLab Marketplace for use in eLabJournal, our all-in-one ELN. Previously, the existing OOS add-on only offered MS Excel. We have now launched an update to offer MS Word and MS PowerPoint for a complete OOS add-on package. This integration enables users to work directly with any of their ELN's core MS Office tools. This makes working on any document, table, or presentation easier without leaving the digital lab notebook.

The freedom to utilise any 3rd party systems and software is essential for your research organisation's present and future successes. We aim to continue providing a truly customisable and scalable solution for our users by ensuring an open ecosystem software. Elevate your research while keeping your lab data safe, secure, and compliant. Try the extended OOS add-on now!

Existing clients, please note:

• The new OOS add-on is available in the marketplace.
• Existing customers on Shared Cloud Hosting with an existing license plan, including support for using MS Excel, can install the add-on without additional fees.
• Existing customers on Private Cloud or On-Premises Hosting Solutions that use MS Excel may contact us to receive this extended add-on without any additional fee. On-Premises may be required to update their OOS to the latest version.
• Please contact us if you would like to use this add-on, but your current license plan doesn’t support MS Excel.

For more information on how to install and configure the new add-on, click here.

Are you interested? Sign up for a free trial or personal demo.

General note: This add-on requires a valid Microsoft Office365 License. Only users with a valid license are eligible to use this add-on. Click here for more information.

[Available only in the USA]

eLabNext lab automation products now work seamlessly with the Elemental Machines system of networked, turnkey sensors. The powerful collaboration will make lab experiments more precise and repeatable, ensure that biological samples are preserved, and guarantee that the quality and viability of biological reagents and therapeutics are maintained.

Automatic Temperature Collection

eLabInventory tracks and manages a complete inventory of life science laboratory samples, reagents, and the storage of temperature-critical therapeutics such as vaccines, establishing a complete audit trail for each. By applying wireless Element T temperature sensors from Elemental Machines to each freezer, refrigerator, and lab environment itself, researchers can automatically maintain a complete temperature history without effort.

Most importantly, the eLabInventory database ties every sample to the storage devices they inhabit. Whether your samples require room temperature storage, standard refrigeration, or freezing at low, ultralow, or cryogenic temperatures, Element T sensors will instantly alert you to off-specification conditions via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or cellular network connection. Each minute, temperature readings are transmitted to eLabInventory for comprehensive, fully traceable records, including the duration and magnitude of any temperature deviation. Significant and minor disruptions are recorded at both the device and sample levels.

Enhanced Experimental Repeatability

Controlling and recording every detail of a life science experiment improves repeatability, diagnosis, and correction of deviations in methods and conditions. Elemental Machine's wireless Element T and Element M sensors provide temperature and other environmental information that may be pertinent to experiments but not otherwise monitored, such as humidity, light, and pressure. eLabJournal stores that data in the electronic lab notebook and can also directly acquire experimental data from various laboratory instruments. The Elemental Machines Element D interface device extends that capability even further.

A Free Add-On is Available Today

Automatic temperature collection and improved experimental repeatability are within reach. The eLabNext Add-on for Elemental Machines is now available free of charge in the eLabNext Marketplace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdQzm732k2QIn science, losing data and samples is a major problem. Increasingly, lab digitization is becoming a requirement. The answer is eLabNext.Control procedures with eLabProtocols, manage samples and equipment with eLabInventory, or combine eLabProtocols and eLabInventory with an ELN for managing data and experiments in eLabJournal - our most complete software package.< Back to overview

eLabNext - The Next Big Step in Life Science Lab Automation

Ten years ago, two PhD students at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands realized that they needed software to make their life science lab work faster and more efficiently and that together they had the IT skills and the experience of biological research to develop the software themselves. Their software worked very well and kept getting better. They called it 'eLABJournal' and soon founded the company, Bio-ITech, to bring it to market. Bio-ITech is now popular with thousands of scientists around the world.

In 2017, Eppendorf, a leading life science company headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, bought a majority stake in Bio-ITech and helped us establish another office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to serve the North American market. It has been a wild and exciting ride, and the growing team has been running hard to keep up.

Our first challenge was confusion between the company name of Bio-ITech and the very strong product names built on the 'eLab' root—eLabJournal, eLabInventory, and eLabProtocols. Most organic search traffic used “eLab” among the search terms. 'eLab' was critical to the company’s identity, not just the products. We needed to clarify and strengthen the brands, which led to the rebranding of the business!

In April 2021, we will begin doing business as 'eLabNext'. Many people know us as 'eLab', and our products harmonize completely: eLabJournal, eLabInventory, and eLabProtocols.
'Next' stands for innovation and the coming generations of products. Along with the new naming goes a resonant new brand identity, including a common hexagonal icon for all the products, with unique identifiers for each product in particular. The hexagonal icon shape is familiar to the eLabNext logo and each product logo, attesting to the interoperability of all our products. In contrast, the conspicuous circles and links in the eLabNext logo confirm that the system operates in a secure network, assuring users: Your data is safe and secure with us.

The new brand architecture is future-proof and embodies the foundation for future growth. The brand hierarchy is simple and flexible, allowing us to improve our products, develop new products and add-ons, and create new integrations, all under the eLabNext umbrella, which will expand with the company's growth.

Over time, we developed several standalone websites to introduce the company and describe the products. That wasn't very clear, and we needed to develop a single, concerted new website, enabled and enlivened by the rebranding. We hired an expert in life science marketing to work with us on the brand strategy and the new website. Together, we analyzed the life science laboratory markets and listened to our customers—and our customer account managers—about their needs, experiences, and ideas for our products and services and how we communicate.

The new eLabNext website and mobile apps will launch our future brand architecture, enhanced by a vital, resonant brand identity. eLabNext users will have simple, seamless, safe, and secure access from any device to any authorized lab and project. It will also provide a focused but comprehensive trove of information and assistance on all aspects of life science lab digitization, from product help and implementation advice to videos, webinars, white papers, case studies, and journal articles.

Connect your labels to your Electronic Lab Notebook. The hassle-free solution to print labels directly from the sample database in your Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) with the free FLUICS Print Add-on for eLabJournal. Truly plug & play: Connect the printer, install the Add-on and start printing from eLabJournal.

The Power of eLabJournal

Bioscientists love the capability of documenting all the details of the experiments they perform, including the procedures, protocols, settings, results, and observations in the Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) module of eLabJournal, while storing and accessing their samples with its Sample Tracking module. It automates many of the processes, reduces the possibility of error, and greatly increases productivity.

Barcoding Samples Inevitable

Before the samples, contained in small tubes, can be stored at sub-Antarctic temperatures in cryogenic freezers they obviously need to be labeled. With all that digital information in the eLabJournal’s ELN and Sample Tracking modules, it was obvious that writing labels by hand would be error-prone, inefficient, and make no sense at all. Barcoded labels would make labeling and retrieving the tubes foolproof and fast.

But Setting Up Printers Was a Pain in the Neck

Label printers have been available, but it was technical, difficult, and time-consuming to interface them with the eLabJournal system. Labels to fit cryogenic sample tubes had to be a precisely particular size, and have the rare physical characteristics to resist smudging and remain strongly adhesive for long periods of time at minus 80 degrees Celsius, as well as in liquid nitrogen. And they had to fit in human readable print as well as the QR code. Setting up such printers could and has been done, but it was all a pain in the neck.

FLUICS Print Now Offers Reliable Label Printing in Seconds

All of the problems have been solved by FLUICS CONNECT, a startup company out of the Technical University Munich, and their specialized Online Label Printing system. It uses robust, bright yellow labels sized perfectly for bio lab sample tubes and offers two standard label layouts with both machine-readable QR codes and human-readable text. The FLUICS CONNECT Online Printer and the Bio-ITech eLabJournal system have been designed and configured to work in harmony every time. Plug the printer into your eLabJournal system, select the Fluics Print configuration, and you are off and running, able to print labels immediately without another thought. Printing perfect labels is fast, easy, and completely reliable. What a relief!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcOvoosP4NUThe episode of eLabJournal​ on CNBC‘s AdvancementsTV w/ Ted Danson discusses the importance of data integrity,​ data security​ & ease of use within the research​ communities through all biotech​ industries.< Back to overview