L7 Notebooks
L7 Notebooks
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What are Electronic Lab Notebooks?
An Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) is a software tool that allows users to digitalize what has historically been recorded in a paper lab notebook.
From within an ELN, researchers can design experiments and capture their results.
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Introducing L7 Notebooks
L7|ESP’s ELN application, L7 Notebooks, is a customizable document editor used for capturing data while executing unstructured experiments for research and protocol/method development.
Offering drag and drop functionality, users can select from a growing library of widget based page elements to construct their Notebook Entries.
Compared to other ELNs, L7 Notebooks app offers unprecedented connectivity to other applications. This enables users to:
Dynamically link Notebook Entries to L7|ESP resources
Use existing Protocols and Workflows within the L7 Notebooks app
Collaboratively share and edit Notebook Entries to streamline the research to development process
View an Entry's version history
Compare different versions of an Entry
And the L7 Notebooks app doesn’t only apply to laboratory settings, you can also create Notebooks for equipment, and more.
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Drag-and-Drop Widgets
The L7 Notebooks app has a growing library of widgets, allowing users to easily drag and drop functionality into Notebook Entries.
The out-of-box Widget Palette currently offers:
Basic - offers simple-logic default widgets that are included in every instance
Header
Subheader
Paragraph
Bullet list
Ordered list
Checkbox list
Table
Spreadsheet
Rich text
Generic renderer
Horizontal separator
Date separator
Image
File
Widget container
Protocol Definitions - offers widget versions of existing Protocols in the instance (excludes Sample Protocols)
Workflow Definitions - offers widget versions of existing Workflows in the instance
Data Visualization - offers a Graph widget to visualize data captured in the Entry
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Note
Custom widgets can be created by developers to extend the functionality within L7 Notebooks app.