Scientific Software and CambridgeSoft announced in May 2002 that they will integrate Scientific Software's Cyberlab knowledge engineering system and CambridgeSoft's E-Notebook
This integration will permit researchers to have an electronic notebook application that can access all laboratory and enterprise electronic records.
Cyberlab knowledge engineering system is the industry's first secure, web-based system designed to capture and warehouse all the electronic records across the enterprise.
Users can search, retrieve, data mine and archive any type of an electronic record such as instrumentation raw data, laboratory reports, procedures and image files.
Designed with US 21 CFR Part 11 in mind, Cyberlab assists organisations to become compliant.
Built using standard web technology, Cyberlab is expandable from single user system to global multi-site implementations enabling global research collaboration and data sharing.
CambridgeSoft's E-Notebook organises electronic laboratory record keeping under multiple projects and experiments, as designed by the user.
Notebook pages consist of ChemDraw structure and reaction diagrams, Microsoft Word documents, and Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.
Word documents can include graphics and other insertions, and spreadsheets can take advantage of the facilities of ChemOffice to display chemical structures and filter results based on structural features.
At the group and enterprise levels, with Oracle as the common data repository, E-Notebook promotes lab productivity and information sharing with detailed page-level security.
"This collaboration enables our mutual customers to have a comprehensive solution to data and structure integration," said Soheil Saadat, president and CEO of Scientific Software.
"Researchers can now move toward the vision of the paperless laboratory which we feel will have a tremendous impact on time to market for new molecular entities."
