Vendor:Arxspan, LLC

**Arxspan, LLC**
Type	Limited liability company
Industry	Laboratory informatics
Headquarters	5a Crystal Pond Road; Southborough, Massachusetts, U.S.
Area served	United States
Products	Products list ArxLab Assay; ; ArxLab FT; ; ArxLab Inventory; ; ArxLab Notebook; ; ArxLab Registration;
Website	Arxspan.com
LinkedIn	https://www.linkedin.com/company/1908717

Arxspan, LLC develops and distributes laboratory informatics software solutions.

History

Arxspan was founded in January 2011.^[1]

In November 2015, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard partnered with Arxspan to use its ArxLab software for biomedical research at the institute.^[2]

Technology and products

ArxLab Assay, FT, Inventory, and Registration

ArxLab Assay is a web-based biological data management tool and repository "for biological assay endpoint data, including in-vivo, LTS and HTS data."^[3] Features include user-defined assay definitions, plate formats, and upload templates, and its "[c]ompatible with user-preferred data analysis tools such as XL Fit or Graph Pad Prism."^[3]

ArxLab FT (Filter and Transform) "is a decision support tool for querying, visualizing, and reporting data." Features allows users to conduct real-time searching and sorting of data, "save search and filter parameters, perform basic mathematical calculations, visualize chemical structures, create customizable graphs, generate 2D plotting, perform structure-activity relationship analyses, [and] export tables to Microsoft Excel."^[4]

ArxLab Inventory "is a web browser-based inventory software application that provides a tool set to define and manage biology and chemistry inventory items." Features include configurable container types, configurable storage location hierarchy, bar code scanning and printing, and search tools.^[5]

ArxLab Registration "is a web-based chemical registration and bio registration solution that is built to serve as an authoritative repository for unique chemical and biological entities, and is optimized for the collaborative research models ubiquitous in today's commercial and academic research environments." Features include entity and batch numbering, mixture and formulation management, customizable fields, and support for salt stripping and uniqueness criteria.^[6]

ArxLab Notebook

ArxLab Notebook is a web-based ELN "that is searchable and sharable, efficiently managing chemistry and biology data" and offered under the software as a service (SaaS) delivery model.^[7]

Features

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the vendor chose to not put relevant feature information online despite its existence in the product.
the vendor chooses to make the feature information available only to those who create an account or call/e-mail.
the feature information exists online to the public, but a URL could not be found to cite the existence of the feature.
the feature does not exist for the product.

A vendor's product may receive more confirmed features with the addition of more public information to the vendor's site and/or by providing a URL to a page or document that can act as a citation for the existence of the feature. Prospective buyers are highly recommended to contact the vendor directly to verify features as this list isn't authoritative, and product upgrades and changes happen rapidly in some cases.

Product: ArxLab Notebook

Experiment, collaboration, and data management
Chemical and/or mathematical drawing and calculation?	Y^[7]
Chemical and/or spectrum file support?
Task and event scheduling?
Option for manual result entry?
Multiple data viewing methods?
Data and trend analysis?
Data and equipment sharing?	Y^[7]
Customizable fields and/or interface?
Configurable templates and forms?
Query capability?
Import data?	Y^[8]
Internal file or data linking?
External file or data linking?
Export data to MS Excel?
Raw data management?
Data warehouse?
Project and/or task management?
Inventory management?
Document creation and/or management?
Lab and/or group management?
Experiment management?
Workflow management?	Y^[7]
Customer and supplier management?
Quality, security, and compliance
Regulatory compliance?	Y^[7]
QA / QC functions?
Performance evaluation?
Audit trail?	Y^[7]
Chain of custody?
Configurable roles and security?
Data normalization?
Data validation?
Data encryption?	Y^[7]
Electronic signatures?	Y^[7]
Version control?
Automatic data backup?	Y^[7]
Reporting, barcoding, and printing
Custom reporting?
Report printing?
Label support?
Barcode support?
Export to PDF?
Export to MS Word?
Export to HTML and/or XML?	Y^[7]
Email integration?
Base functionality
Administrator management?	Y^[7]
Modular?
Instrument interfacing and management?
Mobile device integration?	Y^[7]
Third-party software integration?	Y^[7]
Alarms and/or alerts?
External monitoring?	Y^[8]
Messaging?
Bookmarking?
Commenting?
Multilingual?
Network-capable?
Web client or portal?	Y^[7]
Online or integrated help?
Software as a service delivery model?	Y^[7]
Usage-based cost?
Industries served
biotechnology, chemical, life sciences, general