ELN Technologies Leads iPad Electronic Lab Notebook Apps With CERF Platform

ELN Technologies (formerly Rescentris) has announced today that it has unveiled an all-new version of the CERF electronic laboratory notebook iPad App at the 10th Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston. CERF for iPad allows research scientists to document experiments on the go, in addition to adding files, images, bookmarks, and more.

According to Amber Miller, Microbiologist at Idaho National Laboratory (INL), “The app is powerful, intuitive, and fast. I love the CERF iPad interface.” The CERF electronic lab notebook iPad app has been fully re-designed, and sports the full functionality needed for portable data recording.
“CERF is purpose-designed to replace the paper notebooks with something more suitable to a modern research environment,” said Dr. Wolfgang Rumpf, Director of Product, ELN Technologies.

The CERF iPad App allows users to connect to any CERF Server and work with their notebooks using a rich, intuitive interface. “Our initial feedback has been very positive,” said ELN Technologies CEO Peter Herz. “Users – even those with no previous exposure to CERF – said they found it easy to use. Many scientists have told us that they’d much rather do their work on a small portable device than carry around a laptop or be chained to a desk. The CERF iPad App enables them to do so.”
With the CERF iPad App, users can directly create notebook entries from text, images, and any documents they have in their Cloud storage systems such as DropBox. “Users can even dictate their notebook entries using the new iPad’s Speech to Text feature,” continued Mr. Herz. “It just works.” And users agree.

“I just came back from Las Cruces for a National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels & Bio-Products (NAABB) CERF meeting”, said Jeremy Tate, CERF Admin for NAABB and Help Desk Manager at the Danforth Plant Science Center. “I was showing off the iPad CERF app and got some very positive feedback from a variety of people. We think it’s great. Simple, intuitive, and very fast.”

Simple and intuitive design is key to providing scientists with the tools they need to get their work done. According to Dr. Rumpf, “There is too much scrapbooking and reinvention in science – cutting and pasting from one piece of paper to another; repeating experiments because it’s faster than searching through all of the old paper notebooks – or worse, repeating experiments because you accidentally overwrote the original data, or simply don’t know that one of your colleagues has already done that experiment. Science advances when we build on existing work rather than reinvent it. With CERF, scientists can finally do that.”