eLabNext digital lab platforms may now connect with Clustermarket’s lab equipment management system. With this partnership, users can further optimize their laboratory workflows.

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Accelerate research with innovative lab tools

Technology is constantly evolving and changing our lives–this is no different for R&D laboratories. The changes brought about by innovative technologies have accelerated the way research is conducted and the speed at which discoveries are made. As the number of R&D increases, so do other aspects of the laboratory, such as manual administrative and reporting activities. This can be burdensome for researchers. The growing availability of advanced lab technology and automation tools can help significantly reduce workloads and boost productivity. For example, removing any paper-based processes allows researchers to collect and save data more securely, collaborate on projects more efficiently, and speed up the production of scientific breakthroughs.

While the availability of lab tools is increasing, many labs are still struggling to enter any adoption phase. In some instances, laboratories have difficulty deciding on which tool to adopt. Some labs use several systems for different aspects of their workflow, which can lead to a series of decentralized data. While eliminating manual administrative work might sound like a dream, using multiple digital tools often requires managing mixed digital and non-digital processes, which decreases the operational efficiency in a lab. This is where digital connectivity comes into play–to achieve a fully digital and optimized lab environment, all processes, people, and systems need to connect to allow data harmonisation easily.

A Centralised Platform

We have partnered with Clustermarket–a leading digital lab solution provider for equipment management–to take a leap towards the digitally connected lab and provide more seamless movement between our offered systems for R&D laboratories. Users may now synchronize their booking information, book equipment directly on their eLabNext account, and automatically import usage information to their equipment notes.

A Free Add-on is Available Today

Optimize operations and accelerate research results with the world-leading management system seamlessly integrated with your eLabJournal or eLabInventory. The Clustermarket's Equipment Scheduler add-on, developed in partnership with Clustermarket, is now available free of charge in the eLabNext Marketplace. If you do not yet have an account with eLabNext, sign up for a free 30-day trial to explore the platform features.

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***PLEASE NOTE: Only available for dedicated installations.***

ChemAssist offers a wide range of features to support chemistry labs and researchers in expanding digital lab capabilities. eLabNext is currently seeking users interested in becoming beta testers of this add-on to collect feedback for feature improvements. As beta testers, users will receive an extended 1-year free trial of ChemAssist. At its full release, ChemAssist will be offered as a paid add-on.

If you are interested in becoming a beta tester, please contact us.

IMPORTANT! Please note:

• Beta testers have free access for 1 year.
• A MarvinJS license is required to use this add-on.
• Beta version is only available for dedicated installations.
• Consequently, no trials are available within the Public Cloud environment.

ChemAssist presents 5 distinctive new features that work seamlessly with eLabNext modules:

1). Chemistry Registry with structural drawing

• A new Sample Field option, 'Chemical Structure,' to draw chemical structures for viewing and searching.
• You may use the Set Parent and Lineage features from eLab Marketplace to symbolize derivatives of molecules and compounds.

2). Chemical Structure rendering in Registery and ELN Rxns

• Display Chemical Structure in Sample List and Experiment sections.
• This visual cue is designed to be easily accessible to assist chemists in quickly identifying molecules of choice rather than searching by name or properties.

3). Fingerprinting and Searching Capabilities

Fingerprinting provides instant screening of your full chemical registry via 3 methods based on your chemical drawing or SMILES structure:

• Similarity Search via percentage

• Substructure search

• Exact Search

4). SMILES integration

• Import molecules as part of your Chemical Registry–using the SMILES structure
• Search molecules from the registry–using the SMILES structure
• Search reactions from the ELN–based on the SMILES Structure

5). Complex Chemical Reaction Drawing and Reaction Table Generation/Analysis

• Use chemical structure drawing (via ChemAxxon from MarvinJS) to execute reactions which auto-generate a reaction table that:
  • Auto-syncs with IUPAC and CAS
  • Auto-renders molecular weight
  • Supports Structure Activity Relationship (SAR) Analysis
  • Has the potential to sync with chemical registry/inventory

How to become a beta tester:

If you are interested in becoming a beta tester, please get in touch with your dedicated account manager or fill out our contact form.

eLabNext is proud to announce that we are now part of the TetraScience Partner Network -the largest ecosystem of partners dedicated to unlocking the power of R&D data for pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical customers.

“By joining the Tetra Partner Network, eLabNext helps the life sciences industry to accelerate discoveries that can help improve lives.”

Patrick Grady, Chief Executive Officer, TetraScience

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eLabNext and biotech start-up, Rewire Neuro, Inc., announce their new platform integration Pipsqueak Pro. The Pipsqueak Pro add-on integrates the platform to eLabJournal to accelerate image analysis capabilities, improve detection, and eliminate human error through automated machine learning (ML).

Pipsqueak Pro was born in the lab–developed by scientists to rapidly speed up manual image analysis, cellular quantification, and multi-channel (colocalization) analysis for both image and video media. The platform uses a patented machine learning system to improve your ROI predictions with minimal user input. Their AutoML™ process customizes the AI’s detection capabilities to your needs and improves your lab’s analysis workflow.

Utilizing AI in the Research Environment

Research and discovery groups must embrace automation and machine learning for redundant, tedious work that clogs up the lab’s workflow. Free up your team to conduct high-value work like writing grants, publishing articles, and improving the quality of scientific discovery. Creating an environment where specific processes are automated empowers research professionals to focus on tasks that cannot be easily replicated by computers while improving the efficiency and productivity of the lab.

Why Choose Pipsqueak Pro

• Customized Cell Detection and Quantification. Using powerful AI models customized for you, Pipsqueak’s custom AI trainer automates cell detection capabilities to improve your specific image analysis's speed, accuracy, and precision.

• Secured Cloud-Based Processing. Your data is secure in the cloud-based storage system, and your custom models are exclusive to your lab’s use.

• Streamlined Research and Development. By processing more data quickly and accurately, your lab may move on to answer more research questions and close the time gap between experiments.

How It Works

Using a single sign-on, eLabNext customers may upload their images directly to their digital lab notebook, run their analyses through the Pipsqueak Pro add-on, and export the annotated images and cellular measurements back into their journal.

> Would you like to try Pipsqueak Pro free for 30 days? Sign up for a Free Trial

Click above to sign up for a free 30-day trial. After your 30-day trial, eLabNext customers will receive a special discount: Purchase your Pipsqueak Pro Lab license for $1,999 after a 20% discount when you use the code “ELABNEXT” at checkout.

> Ready to expand your ELN with ML capabilities? Purchase Pipsqueak Pro License

eLabNext brings self-service AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology to the forefront of research and process development by launching a new add-on in eLab Marketplace.

Install the add-on to extend the functionality of your ELN and optimize your image processing power—developed in collaboration with Modicus Prime.

Modicus Prime specializes in creating custom AI/ML solutions for life science data based on the parameters set by your life science laboratory. Their self-service AI Particle Classification tool, mpVision, solve challenges in anomaly detection, monitoring, and enhanced decision-making.  

Deep analytics with AI technology

Developed using mpVision features, this add-on obtains deep analytics through AI technology. Eliminate labour-intensive pressure for labs that need to analyze thousands of images in their daily research, such as Microscopy. Through AI, results are delivered faster and more comprehensively.

How does it work?

Users upload images of particulates—from biologics to crystals—and train the AI to identify their unique image content. The result is real-time processing of any image data for a comprehensive understanding of sample content.

mpVision add-on features:

• Particle Detection and Image Quality Control. The Image Quality Control panel gives end users complete control over detected and self-labelled particles. End-users determine the sensitivity of the particle detection algorithm, offering broad applicability across control runs, DOE’s, medical devices, commercial processes, and much more.
• Image Labeler. Customize particle labelling for AI training to enable the self-identification and self-labelling of particles in each image. Training data is generated for new particle identities with the Image Labeler Interface.
• AI Processing. Automated processing pipelines are provided for AI Training and AI Inference. The AI Training interface provides a real-time update on the neural network’s learning trajectory. AI Inference classifies particles on unseen data, allowing the end-user to choose from the library of their self-trained models.
• Analytics Reporting and Visualization. The particle statistics and classification results are compiled in the Reporting Interface. Additional reporting format options (including CSV and PDF) may be generated. Customizable client-driven visualizations are provided for desired data insights. Examples include comparisons between medical devices or production sites for scale-down analysis.

Research smarter with the new Modicus Prime mpVision add-on. Available for use with eLabJournal and eLabInventory.

Ready to extend the functionality of your ELN with AI technology?  

The Modicus Prime mpVision add-on is free and available for installation in eLab Marketplace.

Not yet using eLab? Try the add-on free for 30 days in a free trial. Sign up now!

eLabNext launches a new AI (Artificial Intelligence) powered add-on developed by ImmunoMind. This collaboration allows eLabNext users to leverage their existing data as input in the ImmunoMind platform. This data helps guide users through translational and clinical research to help better understand T-cell therapies using computation immunology and AI technologies which enhances the reports from eLabJournal with the results from multi-omics driven drug development and manufacturing.

ImmunoMind is a moonshot startup—graduated from UC Berkeley SkyDeck—that helps companies and medical centres select safer and more effective CAR-T and other Cell Therapies. By using proprietary multi-omics and AI technologies, their platform allows early and comprehensive assessment of potential candidates.

How it works

The ImmunoMind add-on precisely identifies both cell subpopulations (e.g. Tscm, Tcm, Tem, Treg, NK, gdT cells) and their characteristics (e.g. exhaustion, senescence, activation) to create a comprehensive profile of CAR-T and other Cell Therapy products. The profile can help select the most effective design and dosage for CAR-T, improve QC and SOP to select T-cell subsets (such as Tscm and T-cell precursors), assess exhaustion and persistence of CAR-T cells in vitro and in vivo, and more. The platform supports Go/No-Go decision-making and reduces the risk of immunotherapy development and manufacturing.

Collaboration at its best

eLabNext values efficient and secure collaboration within the lab and across departments. We provide digital solutions to align all diverse teams within an organization. With this integration, you will be able to bring forward the synergy between biologists, medical scientists, data scientists and bioinformaticians. We value the resources it takes to follow through with all the stages of drug development and manufacturing—which is precisely why we put our efforts into providing everyone with an automated and streamlined process.

The ImmunoMind add-on is free and available in eLab Marketplace

Install the free ImmunoMind add-on to connect eLabJournal with the ImmunoMind platform for more enriched reporting.

Not yet using eLab? Try the add-on free for 30 days in a free trial. Sign up now!

eLabJournal and eLabInventory users in Europe may now install and utilise the Elemental Machines sensors. This was previously only available to USA users.

How do the Elemental Machines sensors work?

The wireless Element T temperature sensors can be applied to every freezer, refrigerator, or general lab environment. The inventory module in eLabJournal or eLabInventory will automatically collect the complete temperature history of the chosen inventory spaces.

Whether your samples require room temperature storage, standard refrigeration, or freezing at low, ultralow, or cryogenic temperatures, Element T sensors will instantly alert you of any off-specified conditions via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or cellular network connection.

Apart from temperature readings, Element A and Element T sensors provide other environmental information that may be pertinent to experiments but are not often monitored. For example, humidity, light, and pressure.

Why is this important?

An accurate and complete history of your laboratory storage space allows researchers to improve the repeatability of life science experiments. Researchers may ensure that biological samples are preserved to maintain the quality and viability of biological reagents and therapeutics.

The Elemental Machines add-on is free to install from eLab Marketplace

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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