Menzel Julia, Weil Philipp, Bittihn Philip, Hornung Daniel, Mathieu Nadine, Demiroglu Sara Y
Department of Medical Informatics, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2013;192:1108.
Sustainable data management in biomedical research requires documentation of metadata for all experiments and results. Scientists usually document research data and metadata in laboratory paper notebooks. An electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) can keep metadata linked to research data resulting in a better understanding of the research results, meaning a scientific benefit [1]. Besides other challenges [2], the biggest hurdles for introducing an ELN seem to be usability, file formats, and data entry mechanisms [3] and that many ELNs are assigned to specific research fields such as biology, chemistry, or physics [4]. We aimed to identify requirements for the introduction of ELN software in a biomedical collaborative research center [5] consisting of different scientific fields and to find software fulfilling most of these requirements.
生物医学研究中的可持续数据管理需要记录所有实验和结果的元数据。科学家通常在实验室纸质笔记本中记录研究数据和元数据。电子实验室笔记本（ELN）可以将元数据与研究数据关联起来，从而更好地理解研究结果，这意味着具有科学效益[1]。除了其他挑战[2]，引入ELN的最大障碍似乎是可用性、文件格式和数据录入机制[3]，而且许多ELN被指定用于特定的研究领域，如生物学、化学或物理学[4]。我们旨在确定在一个由不同科学领域组成的生物医学合作研究中心[5]引入ELN软件的要求，并找到满足这些要求中大部分的软件。
