The volume of data generated by lab instruments is increasing exponentially. The pressure to capture and accurately record this data, and associate it with writeups of experiments which make use of the data, is also increasing in order to ensure compliance with funder, regulatory and institutional data management requirements, and to maximize productivity. This presentation explores an initiative designed to turn the problems created by these pressures into a solution that enables better data management. The first part of the solution enables automated aggregation of data from multiple instruments, tacking the barrier that has historically existed because each instrument produced data in a proprietary format, making aggregation of data difficult and often impossible. The second part of the solution enables convenient recording of experiments and sharing of experimental data in a flexible and secure platform – a modern, affordable electronic lab notebook. The third part of the solution enables automatic entry of the aggregated instrument data into the electronic lab notebook in an organized fashion, into preconfigured folders. The fourth part of the solution enables researchers to search and select particular, relevant, subsets of instrument data and associate them with the writeup of the relevant experiment(s) in the electronic notebook. The principles and solution described above will be illustrated with one or more actual case studies to demonstrate how they help improve researchers’ efficiency with data workflows.

New frontier in lab data management: Getting instrument data into an electronic notebook

ACS Spring Meeting 2021

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