Electronic laboratory notebooks in a public-private-partnership

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1 ScreeningPort, Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology (IME), Hamburg, Germany
2 Department of Physics, University of Cagliari, Monserrato, Italy
3 Research, Basilea Pharmaceutica International AG, Basel, Switzerland
4 Department of Life Sciences & Chemistry, Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany
5 Innovation, Performance and Technology, GlaxoSmithKline, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, United States of America
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.2325v1
Published
Accepted
Subject Areas
Computer Education, Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing, Network Science and Online Social Networks, Social Computing
Keywords
public-private-partnership, open access, Innovative Medicines Initiative, Electronic laboratory notebook, New Drugs for Bad Bugs, IMI, PPP, ND4BB, collaboration, sharing information
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© 2016 Vaas et al.
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Cite this article
Vaas LAI, Witt G, Windshügel B, Bosin A, Serra G, Bruengger A, Winterhalter M, Gribbon P, Levy-Petelinkar CJ, Kohler M. 2016. Electronic laboratory notebooks in a public-private-partnership. PeerJ Preprints 4:e2325v1

Abstract

This report shares the experience during selection, implementation and maintenance phases of an electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) in a public private partnership project and comment on user feedback. In particular, we address which time constraints for roll-out of an ELN exist in granted projects and which benefits and/or restrictions come with out-of-the-box solutions. We discuss several options for the implementation of support functions and potential advantages of open access solutions. Connected to that, we identified willingness and a vivid culture of data sharing as the major item leading to success or failure of collaborative research activities. The feedback from users turned out to be the only angle for driving technical improvements, but also exhibited high efficiency. Based on these experiences, we describe best practices for future projects on implementation and support of an ELN supporting a diverse, multidisciplinary user group based in academia, NGOs, and/or for-profit corporations located in multiple time zones.

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This is a submission to PeerJ Computer Science for review.

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DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.2325v1/supp-5

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