ELECTRONIC LABORATORY NOTEBOOK FROM PEN-BASED COMPUTING

纸质实验室笔记本仍然是最后的堡垒之一 科学界的人工信息。直到最近，它的 独特的特点：重量轻，便携，耐用，免费- 表格和灵活但不能抹去的数据条目，不能由 任何信息技术。笔式硬件的出现 技术和组件软件技术提供了一个机会 要复制纸质笔记本的高度理想功能，请使用 相当于电子的，同时带来了电子的额外好处 向科学家和科学组织提供信息。这项研究 寻求开发全尺寸电子实验室笔记本(RLN) 系统，针对医药及相关的特定需求 健康科学研究。第二阶段的研究旨在开发一种 使用移动和桌面计算的灵活组合的ELN 主持人。ELN提供了两个独立的数据视图，即笔记本 保留纸质笔记本不可磨灭的特性的视图，以及 可用于创建、编辑和传输数据的工作簿视图 到笔记本电脑。ELN还提供对第三方工具的访问 从文字处理器到实验室仪器，以及几个 专为满足工作台的特定需求而设计的ELN专用工具 化学家。 建议的商业应用 拟议的研究将导致开发一种电子产品 实验室笔记本，笔式电脑上的主机。本产品 几乎可以被制药行业的每一位科学家使用 相关化工领域，估计市场规模超过 2.5亿美元。

The paper-based laboratory notebook remains one of the last bastions of manual information in the scientific world. Until recently, its unique characteristics: light weight, portable, and durable, with free- form and flexible, yet indelible datat entry, could not be provided by any information technology. The emergence of pen-based hardware technology and component software technology offers an opportunity to replicate the highly desirable features of paper-based notebooks with equivalent electronic ones, while bringing added benefits of electronic information to the scientist and scientific organization. This research seeks to develop a full-scale Electronic Laboratory Notebook (RLN) system, directed at the specific needs of pharmaceutical and related health-science research. The Phase II research seeks to develop an ELN that uses a flexible combination of mobile and desktop computing hosts. The ELN provides two separate views of the data, a Notebook view which retains the indelible properties of the paper notebook, and a Workbook view which can be used to create, edit and transfer data to the Notebook. The ELN also provides access to third party tools ranging from word processors to laboratory instruments, and several ELN-specific tools designed to meet the specific needs of the bench chemist. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION The proposed research will lead to development of an electronic laboratory notebook, hoste on a pen-based computer. This product would be usable by virtually every bench scientist in the pharmaceutical related chemical field, a marketplace which is estimated at more than 250 million dollars.