Testimonials


Martin Andersson and Kenth Hallberg, Protein Science and Structural Chemistry, Sprint Bioscience AB

"Despite our previous long experience from the pharma industry we have not worked with any electronic lab notebooks previously. We have quickly realized what a powerful tool iLabber is and can no longer imagine doing lab work without it. Since a large part of modern lab work generates a lot of data in electronic format the use of paper notebooks is a huge detour. The data we generate needs to be securely stored but also shared in an efficient way. Thanks to iLabber, we no longer e-mail Excel tables of screening data, instead the whole work group can access the same information at the same time. We can easily add new team members as our company grows. For our CRO business it’s an advantage towards our customers, that even if we are a small company, we have a high quality system for documentation of our experimental work. The communication and reporting to our customers is facilitated as we can send them the full, or parts of the experimental documentation."




Fredrik Roos, Scientist, Olink Genomics, Uppsala, Sweden

"For a small-size multidisciplinary company like Olink Genomics, involved in customer service projects as well as front-end genomic research, an electronic lab book was exactly what was needed from start. The iLabber system allows us to keep our experiments neatly sorted, searchable and shared between all involved, which really helps when coordinating many different projects at the same time. The way raw data can be uploaded and excel files integrated directly into the workspace helps minimize administration time which speeds up our research and production processes without compromising the IP protection. Basically, iLabber has proved the traditional paper lab books obsolete for the 21st century."




Nick Roesen, Senior Scientist, Hybrid BioSystems Ltd., UK

"iLabber seems to be a good solution for a small/medium biotech company like ours; it protects our IP with it's time stamping and witnessing features, the files are stored remotely which means we are protected against fire and theft at our site, and the cost is relatively good as it is only charged per person using the system. The software itself is simple but effective; easy to pull in data from different programs and file experiments in a very searchable way, then create pdf files or email the experiments to whomever needs to see the results. So far it is exactly what we need."



Shai Ufaz, Group leader, TransAlgae Ltd., Israel

"Being a startup company engaged in multidisciplinary methodologies, TransAlgae needed a system that would allow conducting of many experiments under several parallel projects while efficiently documenting and analyzing the results. iLabber allows exactly that. We now exchange information between staff members easily without losing information or IP protection. The way experiments are organized and stored on iLabber improved my ability to control and manage our progress in each project, and improved our level documentation.  In addition the ease of use is exceptional, it enables me to plan, organize and even update my experiment from home or on the train, making it highly cost effective. I would highly recommend iLabber to any research lab especially those who need an efficient way to manage data of several projects with minimum investment."



Maria Dolores Herman, PostDoc at Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm

"As a member of a High-Throughput Lab during my PhD studies, we faced the need for an efficient system to store and organize our data that could allow us the flux and exchange of information in a very dynamic environment without loosing data. iLabber was the perfect solution. It is easy to use for everybody, faster than old paper notebooks and it has significantly increased the quality of our notebooks. I find the iLabber search function a very powerful tool for analyzing and evaluating the different stages of the projects. After my PhD, I set itup in a small biotech company and nowadays I use it as a single scientist in an academic group. Personally, I think that iLabber is cost-effective, very versatile and flexible software that greatly improves productivity. It establishes a higher standard quality of the notebooks at the same time that it simplifies data recollection. iLabber support is very helpful and is constantly improving new iLabber versions according to requirements from the customer."



Lari Lehtiö, Group Leader, Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacy, Åbo Akademi University

"After using ConturELN during my postdoctoral work it was evident that I could not go back to using paper notebooks. Luckily iLabber was introduced at the time I started my research group. iLabber makes professional electronic notebooks affordable for a small academic research group and to a single scientist - importantly without having to worry about maintenance. Net-based usage has been smooth even when using windows as a virtual operating system. iLabber is being actively developed and this has added features, improved daily usage and enabled local backups as pdfs. After using iLabber for several months I'm convinced that the investment will improve productivity and sharing of information in our group."


Magnus Brisander,PhD, Director Solid State Sciences, XsprayMicroparticles AB

"iLabber has simplified the documentation process and increased thequality of our lab book documentation. The ability to use iLabberwithout the need of an in-house server for database handling andbackups makes it an ideal solution for a small company like Xspray."



Niels B. Larsen, Research Professor, DTU Nanotech, Technical University of Denmark

"iLabber offers exactly what I was looking for: a "full-scale" solution in terms of flexibility, power, and ease of use with an option for trying out the system from day one without any large initial hardware and software investments. I find iLabber indispensible for my role as active group leader and for the knowledge built-up and sharing between members of an academic group having a fast exchange of group members."



Paul Hanlon, Manager of Discovery Science, Department of Research & Development, Standard Process, Inc.

"iLabber has helped significantly in the organization of our data as well as in recalling old data. Previously with a paper notebook I found myself constantly having to cross-reference between my paper notebook and various files of different types that were saved in numerous places on my computer. iLabber allows me to easily group together information in a single location, permitting me to more quickly interpret my results. The search function has also been very useful, and I have used it to rapidly find the results from single samples, something that would have taken tedious opening of numerous files with our old system. Because of these reasons I feel that iLabber has greatly improved my productivity."



Evert H. Homan, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, Beactica AB

"Based on previous experience, the choice of Contur as an ELN provider was an obvious one for us. Securing intellectual property in a reliable, tractable system is vital for our business. The iLabber solution is particularly attractive for small start-up biotech companies like Beactica, because it is very cost-effective and scalable. Since all data is stored off-site at Contur, we did not have to invest in infrastructure and don't have to be bothered with system maintenance. It also makes it very easy to deploy the system company-wide, since only desktop clients are needed. We are utilizing the digital countersigning option, which doesn't require the need to store all submitted experiments on paper. The system was quickly adopted, even by users without previous experience with electronic lab notebooks. For us, paper lab books definitely belong to the past."



Jonas Heilskov Graversen, M.Sc., PhD. Chief Scientific Officer, Cytoguide

"We are a newly started biotech company. We have been very pleased with iLabber software as a service. Using this software we have with a very limited workload established a fully electronic environment for documenting our results, the resources we have used has been very limited and using the software as a service solution even means that we do not need to worry about data back-up and server maintenance. Setting up the program was quick and any questions have been answered within the same workday by the support."



Erik Holmgren, PhD,Senior Scientist, Karolinska Institutet,Stockholm

"I have been using ConturELN for several years at Biovitrum and am now using iLabber at Karolinska Institutet. For my type of research it is vital to do a lot of planning and "virtual" laboratory work before I go into the lab. A software like iLabber simplifies a lot of this. Furthermore, since I can use any computer with the iLabber application installed, I am not limited to one particular computer. I can even sit down at home and do the planning, or write up the results of my laboratory experiments. This might be even more important when you do work in different projects at different times. With iLabber you can easily get back on track and pickup and continue an experiment you might not have been involved in for some time. The limitation for doing this is not in iLabber. The beauty of iLabber is that it is flexible in terms of using it and it can fit different type of researchers with different needs of storing and retrieving laboratory results, without compromising for security and safety of stored information."