# List of electronic laboratory notebook software packages

An electronic lab notebook (also known as electronic laboratory notebook, or ELN) is a computer program designed to replace paper laboratory notebooks. Lab notebooks in general are used by scientists, engineers, and technicians to document research, experiments, and procedures performed in a laboratory. A lab notebook is often maintained to be a legal document and may be used in a court of law as evidence. Similar to an inventor's notebook, the lab notebook is also often referred to in patent prosecution and intellectual property litigation.
Electronic lab notebooks are a fairly new technology and offer many benefits to the user as well as organizations. For example: electronic lab notebooks are easier to search upon, simplify data copying and backups, and support collaboration amongst many users. ELNs can have fine-grained access controls, and can be more secure than their paper counterparts. They also allow the direct incorporation of data from instruments, replacing the practice of printing out data to be stapled into a paper notebook. This is a list of ELN software packages. It is incomplete, as a recent review listed 96 active & 76 inactive (172 total) ELN products. Notably, this review and other lists of ELN software often do not include widely used generic notetaking software like Onenote, Notion, Jupyter etc, due to their lack ELN nominal features like time-stamping and append-only editing. Some ELNs are web-based; others are used on premise and a few are available for both environments.

## ELN Software

| Name | Developer(s) | Initial release | Country of origin | 21 CFR Part 11 Compliance Information |
| IGOR - Your Personal Lab Assistant | Wildfell Software LLC | 2020 | United States | 21 CFR Part 11 |
| Labguru | Biodata Ltd | 2011 | United States | 21 CFR Part 11 |
| CellPort | CellPort Software, LLC | 2021 | United States | 21 CFR Part 11 |
| Genemod | Genemod, Inc. | 2018 | United States | 21 CFR Part 11 |
| Chemia ELN | Chemiasoft Pvt ltd | 2016 | India | [21 CFR Part 11] |
| Logilab ELN | Agaram Technologies | 2003 | India | 21 CFR Part 11 & Data Integrity |
| LabCollector | AgileBio | 2002 | France | |
| Labii | Labii Inc. | 2016 | United States | |
| Colabra | Colabra Inc. | 2021 | United States | Paid plans |
| Scispot | Scispot.io Inc. | 2021 | Canada | |
| CDD Vault ELN | Collaborative Drug Discovery, Inc. | 2018 | United States | |
| Uncountable | Uncountable Inc. | 2018 | United States | |
| Signals Notebook | Revvity | 2017 | United States | |
| Pillar Science | Pillar Science | 2017 | Canada | |
| Mbook | Mestrelab Research | 2015 | Spain | |
| SciNote ELN | By SciNote LLC and BioSistemika LLC, based on a later published scientific study | 2015 | United States | |
| Labstep | Labstep | 2015 | United Kingdom | |
| RND NOTE | Cyberline Co., Ltd. | 2015 | South Korea | |
| Open Science Framework (OSF) | Center for Open Science | 2013 | United States | |
| Labfolder | Labforward GmbH | 2012 | Germany | |
| RSpace | ResearchSpace | 2012 | United States | |
| Benchling | Benchling, Inc. | 2012 | United States | |
| Scilligence ELN | Scilligence | 2011 | United States | |
| Arxspan ELN | Bruker, Inc. | 2011 | United States | |
| eLabJournal | eLabNext | 2010 | The Netherlands | |
| LabArchives | LabArchives LLC | 2009 | United States | |
| Sapio Seamless ELN | Sapio Sciences LLC | 2007 | United States | |
| LabWare | LabWare ELN | 2010 | United States | |
| Sapio Seamless ELN | Sapio Sciences LLC | 2007 | United States |
| LabVantage 8 | LabVantage Solutions, Inc. | 2007 | United States | |
| OpreX Informatics Manager | Yokogawa Electric | 2023 | Japan |
| ChemExplorer | Labio a.s. | 2023 | Czech Republic | |
| E-Workbook | IDBS | 2017 | United Kingdom | |
| Polar | IDBS | 2020 | United Kingdom | |

## Open-source ELN software

| ELN software | Language base | License | Hosted on | Other info |
| Jupyter | Python | BSD | Personal computer or server | Web application |
| OpenWetWare | PHP | GPL v2 | MIT | |
| elabFTW | PHP | GNU AGPLv3 | Personal computer or server | Developed at Curie Institute, Paris |
| CFWPELN (Cloneable Free WP ELN) | PHP | GNU General Public License | Personal computer or server | Uses WordPress, developed at University of Houston |
| OpenBIS | Java, Python | Apache License 2.0 | Personal computer or server | Developed at ETH Zürich |
| Chemotion ELN | Ruby on Rails | GNU AGPLv3 | Personal computer or server | Developed at KIT Karlsruhe |