ELabELN Suite
The Lab's Operating System.
ELabELN Suite is four integrated modules: the notebook, the file layer, the instrument layer, and the analytics layer. One platform holds the experimental record, the data the record references, the instruments that produced the data, and the dashboards that make sense of all of it.
Four integrated modules
Unlimited users
Cloud or on-premises
The notebook is necessary, but not sufficient.
Research labs produce data in four shapes. The experimental record itself: what was done, why, by whom, with what reasoning. The data the experiment produces and references: image stacks, sequencing runs, spectra, mass-spec files, far beyond what a notebook attachment can carry. The data as it leaves the instrument: raw signal, calibration state, timestamps. And what the lab learned across all of it: trends, KPIs, the answers that justify the next grant. A notebook holds the first shape well, and pretends to hold the others. ELabELN Suite holds all four.
The cost of running these in separate systems is invisible until something forces it into view. A grant audit, a personnel change, a journal data-sharing requirement, a regulatory inspection. At those moments, the lab discovers that the file on the shared drive does not know which experiment produced it, that the instrument data is locked in vendor software, that the dashboard the PI wants has to be built by hand from three separate exports. ELabELN Suite prevents those moments by holding the four shapes as one connected record from day one.
Four layers, one system.
The standalone ELabELN notebook handles the experimental record. The Suite adds three more modules that handle the file, instrument, and analytics layers that the notebook alone cannot. Five capabilities define what the full Suite makes possible. The first four are what each layer adds. The fifth is what the layers together make possible.
01 LabDrive: scientific data at lab scale
Beyond notebook attachments.
The notebook handles attachments well, up to a point. The point arrives quickly: a terabyte of TIFF stacks, BAM files, mass spec output. LabDrive holds those files with the experiment, sample, protocol, and instrument metadata that makes them findable years later. Files link bidirectionally to notebook entries, and search runs on metadata rather than filenames. LabDrive also adds project-level permissions for multi-PI labs, automatic versioning with file-locking, and on-premises deployment.
02 LabVia: instrument data at the source
Direct connectivity, no transcription tax.
LabVia connects directly to lab instruments over serial, USB, network, file-watcher, and API protocols. The mass spec, HPLC, plate reader, balance, or sequencer sends its raw output into LabVia, which attaches sample, experiment, protocol, and operator metadata at the moment of acquisition. The notebook does not need that data filled in later. LabVia also flags drift, baseline shifts, and out-of-spec QC results in real time, against the lab's own historical baseline.
03LabVista: dashboards across the operation
Cross-system reporting, drill-down to source.
LabVista pulls data from across ELabELN, LabDrive, LabVia, and connected business systems (LIMS, ERP, billing) into dashboards the lab can actually use. The PI sees the projects-this-week summary. The grant administrator sees the funding-by-experiment breakdown. The auditor sees the chain of custody from raw instrument output to published figure. Every metric drills back to its source experimental record, so the question behind any number is answered in a click.
04End-to-end data lineage
From the first reading to the published figure.
The outcome of running the full Suite is data lineage the four layers cannot provide separately. A published result traces back to the figure, the figure to the analysis file, the analysis to the raw data, the raw data to the instrument run, the run to the calibration state, the calibration to the SOP signed by the responsible scientist. Every link is automatic and queryable. Grant audits and journal data-sharing requests become operations the platform performs.
05The compounding outcome
The lab's operating system, not its toolbox.
Labs that adopt the full Suite stop treating informatics as a collection of tools and start treating it as the platform their research runs on. The notebook becomes the front door of a system that holds the experiment, the data behind it, the instrument that produced it, and the analytics that summarize it. The result is a lab that scales without losing institutional memory, complies without separately compiling, and publishes without rebuilding the record from scratch.
How the four modules connect.
The Suite is not four products packaged together. It is one platform with four entry points. Each module owns its layer and feeds the others.
ELabELN
The experimental record, templates, samples, signatures.
LabDrive
Files, datasets, documents with metadata and versioning.
LabVia
Instrument connectivity, raw data capture, anomaly detection.
LabVista
Cross-system dashboards, reports, lineage.
The Suite is the configuration in which the four modules work together as a single platform.
What the Suite adds, and when to add it.
Most labs start with ELabELN standalone and add the rest of the Suite as the research operation grows. Some labs start with the full Suite from day one because the breaking points are already in view. The comparison below shows what each tier handles and where the standalone product ends.
| Capability | ELabELN (standalone) | ELabELN Suite |
|---|---|---|
| Experimental notebook | Full notebook layer. | Same, plus integrated with the other three layers. |
| File attachments | Notebook-scale attachments. | LabDrive: lab-scale data with metadata, versioning, and on-prem deployment. |
| Sample and inventory tracking | Built into the notebook. | Same, plus project-level provenance through LabDrive. |
| Instrument data | Manual entry or file upload. | LabVia: direct connectivity, real-time capture, anomaly detection. |
| Cross-system reporting | Notebook-level reports. | LabVista: dashboards across ELN, LIMS, ERP, and instrument data. |
| Data lineage | Within the notebook. | End-to-end from instrument run to published figure. |
| 21 CFR Part 11 support | Notebook-level audit and signatures. | Same coverage extended across files, instrument data, and reports. |
| Grant audit readiness | Notebook records. | Notebook records plus underlying data and instrument provenance. |
| Multi-PI and core facility support | Role-based access in the notebook. | Same, plus project-level permissions across all four layers. |
| Scaling cost | Per-user pricing. | Unlimited users on every Suite plan. |
When the notebook alone stops being enough.
Most labs adopt ELabELN standalone first and live with it well. The Suite enters the conversation when one or more of the breaking points below show up in the lab's actual operation.
The notebook is full but the lab's data lives on shared drives and instrument PCs.
A grant audit needs lineage the notebook cannot reconstruct.
Instrument transcription is consuming a measurable share of working hours.
A core facility or multi-PI lab needs project-level permissions across files, samples, and runs.
The PI wants a dashboard and no single system has the data to build it.
See ELabELN Suite as a system.
A 30-minute walkthrough with a LabLynx expert. Bring an example of how the four shapes of lab data move through your operation today, and we will show you how ELabELN Suite would hold the same data as one connected record. No slide deck.
Questions, answered.
If a question isn't here, the demo answers it. The questions are ordered roughly by how often they come up before a decision.