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For research leaders in biotech, pharma, government, and academia, looking to ensure compliance, encourage collaboration, maintain quality assurance, and manage protocols, inventory, and data.
Designed for life science, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, biobanking, cancer research, etc. Labguru helps with capturing data, monitoring research progress, tracking inventories, & more.
The price was a deciding factor for us. We were surprised by the excellent support and good training that was included in the competitive rate.
I find that Tables tend to be difficult to work with and also the lack of user-friendly calendar integration frustrating.
The very useful training videos, how easy it is to set up a new experiment, and how nice and responsive the customer support team is.
It is sometimes difficult to get the steps ordered in the correct order for reports etc, especially if they were initially entered in the wrong order, or subsequently changed.
Our company really likes how online Microsoft Office is integrated if you have a business account. Also, we really appreciate the ability to save files and formulate reports.
There have been some necessary features that were incomplete or difficult to use.
The ability to be 21 CFR 11 compliant, easy of use, visibility, customizations, security, and permission levels. Customer service is fantastic and responsive.
To hard to use with phones, difficult to structure project. It's a chore to upload pictures/files.
It's just a very good system to use to record and share experiments and the very importantly the customer service is very responsive and helpful.
When trying to import a large amount of data the system sometimes is slow or import fails occasionally. Sometimes the search function fails to find all documents.
User friendly system for storing protocols, writing up experiments, useful inventory for cold storage, equipment, samples etc. Easy to share and witness experiments.
You can physically store the pdf of the Labguru virtual notebook but what do you do for the data. The moment my lab or research group decides to quit Labguru, all the data will be lost.
The ELN really helps to have a good overview of research that is conducted in an academic research lab.
If someone has a bad internet day then he/she will not be able to work on Labguru at all.
It is great with integration with our other sample collection system. It is very easy to import in samples and link experiment and reagent usage to each sample.
The second aspect of using Labguru or any similar platform is the heavy reliance on the internet. Labguru is certainly not solely to be blamed solely.
Arpita: Hi everyone. I am Arpita. I am working as the Senior Scientist at a small size biotech startup company, and we are using SciNote to record our everyday lab activities and data record. And I will rate SciNote at four out of five. Before SciNote, we were using the conventional paper notebook and recording the data in Excel sheet and saving everything in a shared shared point. And it was not working well for us because everybody's lab notebook is different, stays in the lab, sometimes they take it home so there is possibility to get it lost. And also, it was very difficult to look for some data through the computers. And in the SciNote, we are not facing this problem. It is very user-friendly. It has this searchable option, so it's very easy to look for any data at any time. So that, we like a lot. So when we decided to switch to an electric notebook, so I was interviewing different companies and I found that SciNote actually solves our purpose best because as compared to other notebooks, other electronic notebooks, SciNote is much more user-friendly and they have a great customer care team. So we communicated with them very frequently, went to them with very simple and silly questions, and they answered all of our questions and helped us to become habituated with using an electric lab notebook. Pretty easy with the help of the customer care service and everything has initial learning curve. From my point of view, I will say the learning was very easy. It didn't require any prior knowledge or any prior experience of using an electric lab notebook. So I would say it was very easy. Any company should look for something that is very user-friendly. It should not be something intimidating that takes months of learning time and then come to implementation. And also, they can have this trial period and to find out if it actually serves their purpose. For example, from my point of view or my experience, I think SciNote will not serve well for bioinformatic related experiments or gene related experiments like comparing genome or comparing modeling type of work. But it works very well in conventional laboratory experiments such as you repeat the experiments three times, you present that data as a graph, and also record your regular activities. So yeah, that's my opinion.
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