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Electronic Laboratory Notebook
An electronic laboratory notebook (eln, or elab notebook) is a software package that eliminates the need for paper based lab notebooks by providing access and manipulation of data from a informatics system. An example of an electronic lab notebook, would be the Waters eLab Notebook.
Laboratory Informatics
A platform that allows scientific data to be captured, migrated, processed, and interpreted for immediate use, as well as stored and managed to support future product development. Waters has a variety of informatics offerings.
Scientific Data Management System
A system that captures, catalogs and archives ALL data generated by ALL laboratory instruments (HPLC, MS or Mass Spectrometry) and applications (LIMS, analytical applications, electronic laboratory notebooks) in a compliant way, serving up the data in an application and platform independent way to a variety of informatics applications. See the Waters NuGenesis SDMS page for more information.