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Open sourceLIMS & ELN

eLabFTW

Open-source electronic lab notebook and inventory

eLabFTW is a mature, open-source ELN used by thousands of labs. It is self-hostable (Docker) and gives institutions full control over their data.

Highlights

  • Rich experiment entries with templates, tags and links.
  • Database/inventory module for samples, reagents and equipment.
  • REST API and Python client for automation.

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