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Still running your lab on paper notebooks and spreadsheets? Our new free guide breaks down when — and how — an electronic lab notebook makes sense for academic research.

An ELN Solution Guide for Academic Research covers the essentials: ELN basics, choosing a system, compliance, data migration, integration, and a real university lab case study with measurable results.

Grab your copy here 👉 https://www.elabeln.com/resources/books/eln-guide-academic-research/

Every qPCR run records the same handful of things: cell line, target gene, reference gene, primer lots, master mix, replicate layout, instrument. So why rebuild that record from scratch each time?

Our new qPCR template for ELabELN ships with those fields already in place. Load it, fill it in, and the experiment record is structured and searchable from the first entry. The walkthrough shows how it stays organized while a run is still live.

See the template: https://www.elabeln.com/resources/templates/qpcr-experiment/

How many times have you rebuilt the same Western blot scaffold from scratch?

The new ELabELN template gives protein labs a tested baseline instead: a 10-step ECL protocol, validated antibody dilutions, and antibody references pre-wired to inventory, so lot numbers and validation status carry into the record on their own. Edit the antibody pair, the gel percentage, or the transfer method to match what your lab actually runs.

It's included on every ELabELN plan with unlimited users, and it's the first of many templates we're adding to the library.

Take a look:

Western Blot Template, 10-Step ECL Protocol | ELabELN Pre-built Western blot template with 10-step protocol, typed gel and antibody fields, validated antibody references, ECL imaging. Unlimited users included.

The hard part of lab data isn't writing it down. It's everything that comes after: files pile up on a shared drive, instrument output stays locked in vendor software, and the dashboard the PI wants has to be rebuilt by hand from three separate exports.

ELabELN Suite puts all of it on one platform. The notebook, the files and datasets behind it, the instrument data captured at the source, and the dashboards that read across everything, connected so any result traces back to where it came from. One platform, unlimited users, cloud or on-premises.

Take a look at how the four pieces fit together: https://www.elabeln.com/suite/

When every ELN login has a price, labs start rationing logins. Someone hands their notes to a person who already has a seat. Someone keeps a side spreadsheet. Someone just remembers it. None of it feels like a problem in the moment, and all of it puts part of the lab's record outside the notebook that was supposed to hold everything.

That's the hidden cost of per-seat pricing, and it has very little to do with the number on the invoice.

New article works through per-seat vs unlimited for research labs: where each one fits, why transient teams feel it most, and three questions that usually settle which model you need.

Per-Seat Pricing vs Unlimited Users: The Hidden Cost of ELN Adoption - ELabELN Most decisions about an electronic lab notebook eventually arrive at a meeting nobody enjoys: the one where a lab works out who actually gets a license. The PI, obviously. The senior postdocs, yes. The two staff scientists, fine. Then the list gets harder. The rotating graduate students who cycle th...

A research lab in September: 12 people in the group. By February: 9 people. By June: 14, including two rotating students and a visiting researcher.

Per-seat ELN pricing turns lab membership into a billing problem. The new LabLynx ELN pricing removes the per-seat math entirely: unlimited users are included, with reduced rates for academic research labs.

Take a look at the new plans:

ELabELN Pricing | Two Editions, Unlimited Users Always Compare ELabELN Standard and Suite pricing. Every edition includes unlimited users, full compliance, and dedicated support. Academic pricing available.

Quick question for anyone running a research lab: how much of your experimental record lives in paper notebooks, shared drives, and spreadsheets that one person on the team fully understands?

If the answer is "more than we'd like," the new LabLynx video is worth six minutes. It walks through the LabLynx ELN as a standalone electronic lab notebook and, for labs that want more, as a platform with additional applications (inventory, scheduling, instrument integration, and others). The argument is built around academic and university research labs specifically, with pricing tiers for both.

Watch: https://vimeo.com/1190253963

To get a free trial, schedule a demo, or just talk through what your lab needs, visit https://www.lablynx.com/get-started/ or email [email protected].

The ELabELN Solution.mp4 The LabLynx ELabELN solution is MORE than an electronic lab notebook! It's a PLATFORM, giving you access to a virtually unlimited range of additional applications, specially designed to work together seamlessly as an electronic data management ecosystem. LIMS features and functionality PLUS - and al...

A2LA's Top 10 deficiencies. ANAB's 548 nonconformities from 543 assessments in 2025. Two published datasets, one pattern: five clauses keep showing up at reassessment after reassessment.

Our new whitepaper breaks down exactly which findings recur, why paper and spreadsheet workflows can't produce the evidence assessors are asking for, and what changes when a modern LIMS sits behind the work.

4 pages. Free download. Worth the 10 minutes before your next audit.

https://www.lablynx.com/iso-17025-deficiency-data-whitepaper/

70% of scientists say they can't reproduce another researcher's results.

It's rarely fraud. It's almost always documentation.

Methods missing critical details. Data scattered across notebooks, instruments, and spreadsheets. Knowledge walking out the door when grad students and postdocs move on.

Funders are paying attention. NIH is exploring how to reward researchers who make replication easier. Horizon Europe now requires FAIR data management across all funded projects. Nearly a quarter of major U.S. research institutions have already rolled out enterprise ELN licenses.

Our new white paper breaks down the five documentation failures driving the reproducibility crisis, and what labs can do about it before the next grant cycle.

Free download: https://www.lablynx.com/reproducibility-crisis-whitepaper/

It is March, so we did what any lab informatics company would do. We built a bracket.

16 of the most common lab pain points. Four regions. One champion. We wrote a full scouting report on every matchup and built an interactive bracket so you can click through and pick your own winners.

Manual Data Entry is the 1-seed. Data Silos grabbed the 2. Who makes your Final Four?

Fill out your bracket: https://www.lablynx.com/resources/articles/lims-madness-bracket/

LIMS Madness Bracket: 16 Lab Pain Points Ranked | LabLynx 16 lab challenges go head-to-head in a single-elimination bracket. From manual data entry to data silos, see the scouting report and pick your winners.