Joint laboratory data management between labfolder and Max Planck Society
labfolder GmbH and the Max Planck Society today announced the signing of a license agreement that allows the 11,000 scientists within the Max Planck Society to use labfolder's digital platform for laboratory data management.
"There is currently an enormous demand among scientists in the Max Planck Society for conversion to electronic laboratory record keeping," explains Dr. Frank Sander, head of the Max Planck Digital Library.
This is the first time in the world that a laboratory data management tool has been made available at the level of a research organization across all scientific disciplines from physics, chemistry, life sciences to humanities. labfolder's laboratory data management software allows scientists from all disciplines to capture, link and manage scientific data from disparate data sources such as computers, tablets and lab equipment, while adhering to laboratory guidelines and industry standards.
Intercontinental positioning
labfolder accelerates research and innovation and facilitates data analysis and collaboration among scientists across departments and continents. labfolder can be installed on local servers at the institutes and on a central server. The labfolder data platform is extremely flexible and can be adapted by Max Planck scientists themselves to their needs.
"The licensing agreement with the Max Planck Society, one of the most successful and prestigious scientific organizations in the world, is an important milestone in the development of labfolder," said Dr. Simon Bungers, CEO of labfolder.
For many scientists, the classic paper-based laboratory notebook is still the central information technology tool through whose entries experiments and hypotheses become comprehensible and collected data become interpretable. "There is currently an enormous demand among scientists in the Max Planck Society for conversion to electronic laboratory record keeping," explains Dr. Frank Sander, head of the Max Planck Digital Library, the central office for the development and provision of information and data management services in the Max Planck Society.
"Media discontinuity" disadvantageous
Media discontinuities in the use of a mixture of paper notebooks, locally stored data and file servers for data management mean that the documentation, retrieval and sustainable use of scientific data is often only possible to a limited extent. In addition, the amount of data in science and medicine is growing exponentially.
The digitisation and optimisation of data management in research and clinical practice is therefore seen by scientists, research institutions, companies and public funders and legislators as a trend-setting next step.
