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| genre                  = [[Laboratory informatics]] software
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'''MyLabBook''' is a "free low-code" open-source [[electronic laboratory notebook]] (ELN) built on PHP and the [[Drupal]] content management system (CMS).
'''MyLabBook''' was previously a "free low-code" open-source [[electronic laboratory notebook]] (ELN) built on [[Drupal]]. Today it stands not as an open-source software but "an approach to building an open-source electronic lab notebook (ELN) or research platform that is SAFE (Sustainable, Affordable, Flexible, and relatively Easy to install, customize, and maintain)."<ref name="MLNOverview">{{cite web |url=https://www.mylabbook.org/overview-of-mylabbook/ |title=Overview of MyLabBook |publisher=University of Houston |accessdate=26 May 2023}}</ref>
 


==Product history==
==Product history==
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At some point Kudrle began officially working on or supporting the ELN software through his business Awake Software, LLC, founded in 2013.<ref name="TCPATaxable">{{cite web |url=https://mycpa.cpa.state.tx.us/coa/ |title=Taxable Entity Search |publisher=Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts |quote=Search for 'Awake Software' or Taxpayers ID# 32051447558 |accessdate=28 January 2021}}</ref><ref name="AwakeSoft">{{cite web |url=http://awakesoft.com/ |title=Awake Software |publisher=Awake Software, LLC |accessdate=28 January 2021}}</ref> By the summer of 2020, the website was updated to note that a code repository for the MyLabBook ELN had been set up on GitHub (April 2020) and the code could be downloaded, installed, and modified.<ref name="MLBHomeArch20">{{cite web |url=http://www.mylabbook.org/ |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807160208/http://www.mylabbook.org/ |title=MyLabBook: The Uniquely Free & Flexible ELN |publisher=University of Houston |archivedate=07 August 2020 |accessdate=28 January 2021}}</ref><ref name="GHMLB">{{cite web |url=https://github.com/mylabbook/mylabbook |title=mylabbook / mylabbook |work=GitHub |author=Awake Software, LLC |accessdate=28 January 2021}}</ref>
At some point Kudrle began officially working on or supporting the ELN software through his business Awake Software, LLC, founded in 2013.<ref name="TCPATaxable">{{cite web |url=https://mycpa.cpa.state.tx.us/coa/ |title=Taxable Entity Search |publisher=Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts |quote=Search for 'Awake Software' or Taxpayers ID# 32051447558 |accessdate=28 January 2021}}</ref><ref name="AwakeSoft">{{cite web |url=http://awakesoft.com/ |title=Awake Software |publisher=Awake Software, LLC |accessdate=28 January 2021}}</ref> By the summer of 2020, the website was updated to note that a code repository for the MyLabBook ELN had been set up on GitHub (April 2020) and the code could be downloaded, installed, and modified.<ref name="MLBHomeArch20">{{cite web |url=http://www.mylabbook.org/ |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807160208/http://www.mylabbook.org/ |title=MyLabBook: The Uniquely Free & Flexible ELN |publisher=University of Houston |archivedate=07 August 2020 |accessdate=28 January 2021}}</ref><ref name="GHMLB">{{cite web |url=https://github.com/mylabbook/mylabbook |title=mylabbook / mylabbook |work=GitHub |author=Awake Software, LLC |accessdate=28 January 2021}}</ref>


==Features==
In October 2022, the developers announced that they would be moving away from a Drupal-based ELN approach with MyLabBook to one that uses [[WordPress]] and Oqtane.<ref name="GHMyLabBook22">{{cite web |url=https://github.com/MyLabBook/drupal-eln |title=Drupal-ELN (Legacy MyLabBook) |work=GitHub |date=11 October 2022 |accessdate=26 May 2023}}</ref> As such, MyLabBook is no longer a developer-created and downloadable piece of open-source software but rather "an approach to building an open-source electronic lab notebook (ELN) or research platform that is SAFE (Sustainable, Affordable, Flexible, and relatively Easy to install, customize, and maintain)."<ref name="MLNOverview">{{cite web |url=https://www.mylabbook.org/overview-of-mylabbook/ |title=Overview of MyLabBook |publisher=University of Houston |accessdate=26 May 2023}}</ref>


Features of MyLabBook include<ref name="MLBFeats">{{cite web |url=https://mylabbook.org/features.php |title=Features |publisher=University of Houston |accessdate=28 January 2021}}</ref>:
==Hardware/software requirements==
 
* flexible Protocol Steps
* geolocation support for [[Geographic information system|GIS]] studies
* highly extensible (e.g., woflows, diagrams, analyses, plotting and chartings, etc.)
* social networking integration


==Hardware/software requirements==
The MyLabBook approach to an ELN is built on<ref name="MLBMedia">{{cite web |url=https://www.mylabbook.org/knowledge-base/introduction/ |title=An Introduction to Installation |publisher=University of Houston |accessdate=26 May 2023}}</ref>:


Installation requirements, per the MyLabBook website, include<ref name="MLBMedia">{{cite web |url=https://mylabbook.org/media.php |title=Media and Demo |publisher=University of Houston |accessdate=28 January 2021}}</ref>:
* WordPress
* Directories Pro plugin
* WP Remote and Duplicator plugins
* All-in-One Security (AIOS) plugin


* a Linux server
Wordpress runs on a LAMP stack, and as long as you meet the system requirements of WordPress and its installed plugins, you should be set.
* Minimum 600 MB disk space for the web app
* Minimum 200 MB disk space for [[MySQL]] database files
* Apache 2 web server with mod_rewrite
* MySQL 5.53 database (MariaDB 5.5.20, Percona 5.5.8) or higher, with InnoDB-compatible primary storage engine
* PHP 7.2 or higher, with minimum memory size of 64MB


==Videos, screenshots, and other media==
==Videos, screenshots, and other media==


* [https://mylabbook.org/media.php MyLabBook demos, screenshots, and videos]
* [https://www.mylabbook.org/knowledge-base/ MyLabBook documentation]
* [https://mylabbook.org/sphinx/index.html MyLabBook documentation]


==Entities using MyLabBook==
==Entities using MyLabBook==
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==External links==
==External links==


* [https://github.com/mylabbook/mylabbook MyLabBook at GitHub]
* [https://github.com/mylabbook/mylabbook MyLabBook at GitHub] (deprecated)
* [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYjXPL5ysNGbBMO7Trp9rRg/featured MyLabBook at YouTube]


==References==
==References==

Latest revision as of 18:57, 26 May 2023

MyLabBook
Initial release April 15, 2020 (2020-04-15) (1.0)[1]
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Laboratory informatics software
Website MyLabBook.org

MyLabBook was previously a "free low-code" open-source electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) built on Drupal. Today it stands not as an open-source software but "an approach to building an open-source electronic lab notebook (ELN) or research platform that is SAFE (Sustainable, Affordable, Flexible, and relatively Easy to install, customize, and maintain)."[2]


Product history

Sometime around roughly 2009[3], University of Houston's William Kudrle (Biotechnology Program Manager) and Rupa Iyer (Biotechnology Program Director) created the website mylabbook.org as a public exploration of "modular and flexible open-source ELN based on Drupal."[4] They then described MyLab Book as such[5]:

MyLabBook is a community website for exploring how to build a good Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) using the open source content management system called Drupal. Our hypothesis is that by utilizing appropriate Drupal modules, an inexpensive and appropriate ELN can be built for many contexts. This exploration is being developed in conjunction with the University of Houston's biotechnology program.
 
Because Drupal is free and open source and nearly all of its modules are as well, Drupal provides an inexpensive path to building an ELN. It is also relatively easy to set up and is flexible through using appropriate modules from the thousands that are available on the Drupal website. You can also write your own custom modules fairly easily.

By roughly late 2010 to early 2011, the team announced it had built "a fairly capable ELN" based on Drupal for the university's biotechnology program[6], which was stated to have been first put into use in the fall of 2008.[7]

While module files were available for download at the time[8], it's not clear if an actual open-source project was open to the public. By 2016, the website had received a few facelifts, and the university's instance of the ELN was being considered for an upgrade to Drupal 8.[9]

At some point Kudrle began officially working on or supporting the ELN software through his business Awake Software, LLC, founded in 2013.[10][11] By the summer of 2020, the website was updated to note that a code repository for the MyLabBook ELN had been set up on GitHub (April 2020) and the code could be downloaded, installed, and modified.[12][13]

In October 2022, the developers announced that they would be moving away from a Drupal-based ELN approach with MyLabBook to one that uses WordPress and Oqtane.[14] As such, MyLabBook is no longer a developer-created and downloadable piece of open-source software but rather "an approach to building an open-source electronic lab notebook (ELN) or research platform that is SAFE (Sustainable, Affordable, Flexible, and relatively Easy to install, customize, and maintain)."[2]

Hardware/software requirements

The MyLabBook approach to an ELN is built on[15]:

  • WordPress
  • Directories Pro plugin
  • WP Remote and Duplicator plugins
  • All-in-One Security (AIOS) plugin

Wordpress runs on a LAMP stack, and as long as you meet the system requirements of WordPress and its installed plugins, you should be set.

Videos, screenshots, and other media

Entities using MyLabBook

  • University of Houston, Biotechnology Program

Further reading


External links

References

  1. ↑ "Initial commit". mylabbook - GitHub. 15 April 2020. https://github.com/mylabbook/mylabbook/commit/45d3afa5eeb61e9a35414d7e6e550466bcfbffb6#diff-b335630551682c19a781afebcf4d07bf978fb1f8ac04c6bf87428ed5106870f5. Retrieved 28 January 2021. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Overview of MyLabBook". University of Houston. https://www.mylabbook.org/overview-of-mylabbook/. Retrieved 26 May 2023. 
  3. ↑ Admin (26 October 2009). "Open source ELN alternatives". MyLabBook Blog. University of Houston. Archived from the original on 05 January 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110105104111/http://www.mylabbook.org/node/8. Retrieved 28 January 2021. 
  4. ↑ "About Us - MyLabBook ELN". University of Houston. Archived from the original on 05 January 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110105104024/http://www.mylabbook.org/node/13. Retrieved 28 Janaury 2021. 
  5. ↑ "MyLabBook ELN". University of Houston. Archived from the original on 06 June 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100606164449/http://www.mylabbook.org:80/. Retrieved 28 January 2021. 
  6. ↑ "Background - MyLabBook ELN". University of Houston. Archived from the original on 05 January 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110105093543/http://www.mylabbook.org:80/node/2. Retrieved 28 January 2021. 
  7. ↑ Iyer, R.; Kudrle, W. (2012). "Implementation of an Electronic Lab Notebook to Integrate Research and Education in an Undergraduate Biotechnology Program". Technology Interface International Journal 12 (2): 5–12. http://tiij.org/issues/issues/spring2012/spring_summer_2012.htm. 
  8. ↑ "Downloads - MyLabBook ELN". University of Houston. Archived from the original on 05 January 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110105104050/http://www.mylabbook.org/node/20. Retrieved 28 January 2021. 
  9. ↑ Kudrle, W. (25 March 2016). "Upgrading with a forum". MyLabBook Blog. Archived from the original on 27 June 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20110105104050/http://www.mylabbook.org/node/20. Retrieved 28 January 2021. 
  10. ↑ "Taxable Entity Search". Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. https://mycpa.cpa.state.tx.us/coa/. Retrieved 28 January 2021. "Search for 'Awake Software' or Taxpayers ID# 32051447558" 
  11. ↑ "Awake Software". Awake Software, LLC. http://awakesoft.com/. Retrieved 28 January 2021. 
  12. ↑ "MyLabBook: The Uniquely Free & Flexible ELN". University of Houston. Archived from the original on 07 August 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200807160208/http://www.mylabbook.org/. Retrieved 28 January 2021. 
  13. ↑ Awake Software, LLC. "mylabbook / mylabbook". GitHub. https://github.com/mylabbook/mylabbook. Retrieved 28 January 2021. 
  14. ↑ "Drupal-ELN (Legacy MyLabBook)". GitHub. 11 October 2022. https://github.com/MyLabBook/drupal-eln. Retrieved 26 May 2023. 
  15. ↑ "An Introduction to Installation". University of Houston. https://www.mylabbook.org/knowledge-base/introduction/. Retrieved 26 May 2023. 
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