LabArchives by Dotmatics
LabArchives by Dotmatics is an easy-to-use electronic lab notebook designed for scientists to rapidly digitize, organize, and share diverse research data—including text, media, DNA sequences, and chemical structures—through customizable templates, cloud syncing, advanced search, and real-time collaboration, thereby enhancing productivity, reproducibility, and informed decision-making across scientific workflows.
The Easy-to-use Electronic Lab Notebook
Discover an electronic lab notebook (ELN) designed for rapid digitization. Enhance your team's note-taking experience to quickly store, organize, and share research data, allowing more time for innovation.
Easily Record and Organize Notes
- Take notes, add data, access templates, and link between files.
- Track edits and sync effortlessly to the cloud for access anywhere.
Built for Scientists
- Insert and annotate any type of content, including text, data, and media.
- Create templates, share protocols, build libraries, and manage inventories.
- Advanced search to find all past experiments and notes.
Share Data and Gain Real-time Feedback
- Share protocols, data, and files with your team and external collaborators.
- Receive feedback on experiments and analysis while maintaining a single source of truth.
Benefits of the LabArchives Solution
- Easy to Use: Drag and drop files to create and edit notebooks. Increases productivity, promotes scientific reproducibility, and avoids complicated change management.
- Customization: Create custom entry template types with widgets and layouts tailored to specific needs. Store and feature the most important information for each entry.
- Entry Templates: Choose from dozens of entry templates with ready-made formatting. Focus on science, not software.
- Rich Content & Formatting: Edit entries with rich text editing and formatting, add widgets, and adjust layouts. Highlight and prioritize critical data.
- Various Content Types: Add any type of content, including text, images, media, and endpoint solutions. Store all relevant content in one place.
- Sequence File Management: Store, browse, search, view, and share DNA sequence files in nearly three dozen formats. Contextualize data for informed decisions.
- Chemical Content: Draw and search chemical structures, add chemical and mathematical equations. Complete tasks across a workflow in one place.
- Collaboration: Share files and collaborate directly in the application with local or distributed teams using commenting, alerts, and mentions. Generate quality, contextualized insight with team involvement.
- Tracked & Secure Management: Implement hierarchical user roles and permissions, prevent data loss with daily notebook backups, and maintain an audit trail with timestamps. Defend research audits and protect intellectual property.
Customer Impact
Brain Development Research: Simplified
I used to get frustrated looking back at my own paper notebooks, so online notebooks allow us to maintain, backup and share data online to make it easy.
Debby Silver
Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Duke University
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Modern Electronic Laboratory Notebooks
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Selecting and Adopting an Electronic Lab Notebook
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Limitations of Existing Life Science Software—and the Opportunity to Evolve
Existing life science software tools like ELNs, LIMS, and SDMS, while essential for digitizing workflows and managing data, are limited by their siloed, non-real-time, and non-AI-integrated designs, presenting an opportunity to evolve by integrating them into unified, intelligent platforms—such as Dotmatics Luma—that enable connected, workflow-aware, multimodal scientific intelligence with adaptive workflows, real-time data flow, and cross-functional insights without replacing core systems.
Dotmatics Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN)
Dotmatics Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) is a secure, cloud-hosted, and intuitive virtual notebook designed by scientists to streamline capturing, storing, searching, and sharing diverse scientific experiments and data types across disciplines, featuring flexible protocols, intelligent dashboards, integration with Dotmatics applications and third-party databases, and support for internal and external collaboration to enhance productivity and data-driven decision making.
科学者による科学者のためのエンタープライズELN
Dotmaticsの電子ラボノート（ELN）は、科学者が実験を簡単かつ直感的に記録・共有できるシンプルで柔軟なフレームワークを提供し、多様な科学データタイプの管理、洗練されたダッシュボード、他アプリケーションとの統合、クラウドベースのコラボレーション、そして高度なデータセキュリティを備え、科学的イノベーションの加速を支援する業界リーダー向けプラットフォームです。