Labtrack LLC has introduced version 4 of its electronic lab notebook software.
Richard Stember, chief executive officer of Labtrack, said: 'Using advanced .NET AJAX programming techniques we have provided a richer user interface, more powerful searching functions and other capabilities.' New features include tighter Microsoft Office integration that allows Microsoft Office files to be viewed and edited right on the notebook page.
Edited files can now be saved with a single mouse click and users can even create and embed MO files on the fly.
Drag-and-drop capability allows files to be dragged and dropped between notebook pages, even in different notebooks.
This simplifies the incorporation and management of external data.
Labtrack's notebook data structure has been expanded to allow pages to be associated with experiments, projects, bookmarks and custom titles.
Notebook pages can now be sorted by page number, project, experiment, title and user-defined bookmarks.
Notebook data mining is a powerful query builder that allows users to mine the data contained in their notebook pages.
Users can query against page content, meta-data and field data from user-defined templates.
With one click, users can export the query results directly to Microsoft Excel and other applications.
By employing the latest AJAX technology, Labtrack now performs faster and can support more users with the same hardware.
Labtrack is still a thin client-application (browser based), compatible with Mac and Windows and many browsers including internet explorer, Firefox and Safari.
