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 在科学世界中的人工信息。 直到最近， 独特的特点：重量轻，便携式，耐用，与自由- 形式和灵活，但不可磨灭的数据输入，不能提供的 任何信息技术。 基于笔的硬件的出现 技术和组件软件技术提供了一个机会， 复制纸质笔记本的高度理想功能， 电子化的同时，也带来了电子化的额外好处。 向科学家和科学组织提供信息。 本研究 旨在开发一个全尺寸的电子实验室笔记本（RLN） 系统，针对制药和相关行业的具体需求， 健康科学研究。 第二阶段研究旨在开发一种 ELN使用移动的和桌面计算的灵活组合 hosts. ELN提供了两个独立的数据视图，一个是Notebook， 保留纸质笔记本不可磨灭的特性，以及 可用于创建、编辑和传输数据的工作簿视图 到笔记本 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， ELN专用工具旨在满足工作台的特定需求 化学家 建议的商业应用 拟议的研究将导致开发一种电子 实验室笔记本，托管在基于笔的计算机上。 这个产品 将被制药行业的所有实验室科学家所使用 相关化学领域，市场估计超过 两亿五千万美元。

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.