Sentences with phrase «lab notebook»

She also worries that keeping an electronic lab notebook would complicate her workflow.

Years ago, replication, scientific integrity, and intellectual property concerns led to a well - defined set of lab notebook standards.

One is the ability to record information more thoroughly than is possible with paper lab notebooks.

Once the data start coming in, make sure you keep a good lab notebook, because a reliable scientific record is another cornerstone of science.

Many (especially corporate) laboratories have a formal process by which each day's lab notebook pages are signed and witnessed.

We use it to organize lab notebook entries, protocols, and scientific literature.

«We're pretty rigorous about lab notebooks, and very old school,» she says.

And it was affordable — cheaper than just buying paper lab notebooks every year, in fact.

Rather, it emerged from the imagination of novelist Allegra Goodman, whose recent book, Intuition, may scant the details of inks used in lab notebooks and the appropriateness of statistical measures but probes instead the far more complex and mysterious domain of the human mind and heart.

Plus, if your students are using lab notebooks, you can require check - ins at key points or dates in the process to ensure that everyone is on track, that projects are proceeding as planned, and to intervene or redirect if problems are detected.

Student lab notebooks with prompts asking students to design, record data and / or analyze results of an experiment

Last winter, I watched as one of our science teachers hauled a plastic milk carton stuffed with science lab notebooks through the snow to his car.

Also, Science Careers's informal polls indicate that some graduate students aren't consistently keeping proper lab notebooks.

«I've been able to cite my [online] lab notebook pages in a peer - reviewed paper,» Bradley says.

That's why, in my view, paper lab notebooks continue to endure, because you have this disconnect.»

It was impossible for lab members to paste all those pictures into their notebooks, and there was no way to link their image files, stored on flash drives and computers, to the corresponding lab notebook entries.

An added benefit of an ELN, Hukriede says, it that the electronic system makes it easier for researchers to keep track of their old lab notebooks when they leave the lab.

Reliable figures on lab notebook practices are not available, but it is widely agreed that a large majority of university researchers still use paper.

At the same time, one of his graduate students, Anthony Salvagno, did an open experiment, reporting all of his results on the OpenWetWare site, which hosts wiki - style lab notebooks.

This practice will eliminate protracted disputes over who invented what and when that previously were resolved by digging through dusty lab notebooks to prove invention dates.

LAB NOTEBOOK By Allison Lee, ISB Research Associate In a collaborative research effort, chief scientist Dennis Hansell invited four co-chief scientists (Alexander Bochdansky, Jack DiTullio, Rob Dunbar, and ISB's Mónica Orellana) to be part of a grant looking at the origination, utilization, and movement of carbon in the oceans, specifically the Ross Sea.

Copy, scan and file documents, review and update records for retention, locate and identify lab notebooks, plan and execute work to ensure completion.

John Trigg is the founder of phaseFour Informatics, a London - based consulting company focused on electronic lab notebooks and other laboratory informatics products and services.

Science historians have detected a decline in the use of lab notebooks, finding that data are often stored directly into computer files.

And there were things we couldn't even put in lab notebooks, like movies.»

In any laboratory, a good lab notebook makes the data completely clear and provides enough information about your experimental technique to allow another trained scientist to reproduce your work, even years from now.

Now our images go directly onto the server and into the students lab notebooks.»

As digitally generated data have proliferated, many electronic alternatives to traditional paper lab notebooks have emerged, varying widely both in price — from free to astronomical — and in how rigorously they adhere to accepted documentation standards.

«We're publishing our results as we go, and updating our lab notebook online.

This way you won't forget the details of what you have done, and you will not have to try to decipher what you scribbled in your lab notebook years later *!

I LOVE evernote for my academic work: I have several notebooks that constitue my traditional «lab notebook» where I take notes on experiment methods and results including figures.

In grad school, I once stopped writing in my lab notebook for a month.

I am mesmerized by the art of it,» she reports in the unemotional, sparsely punctuated, and deceptively bland first person present tense that Wang uses throughout the book, as if the protagonist were recording her life as a series of observations in a lab notebook.

He claims to have documented and signed this work in his lab notebook.

Your lab notebooks will be the most effective buttress to your claims, particularly if you can follow increasingly standard practice in these intellectual property days and get each page of your notebook witnessed by other laboratory personnel.

(Another reason, by the way, for making sure your lab notebook is in very good shape is to help deflect any attempts to make counter claims.)

«The biggest professional challenge was training the postdoc who was taking over my project, categorizing my lab notebooks and freezer stocks, and cleaning out my desk, while trying to fix my thesis at the same time.»

Then shake your head in disappointment at their costumes, and note your disappointment in your lab notebook.

She goes through a mental checklist at the first meeting with a prospective postdoc to explain that she wants them to work hard, keep a lab notebook, be available during regular work hours, and so on.

New technologies, including electronic lab notebooks and large quantities of digital data, have complicated things — but the crucial functions lab notebooks serve need to be preserved.

«If you've got to go look through 60 volumes of your postdoc's lab notebooks, as opposed to having a beautiful online record, your view of electronic records starts to change.»

Biologist Karmella Haynes of Arizona State University, Tempe, keeps her lab notebook on OpenWetWare, one of many open - source wikis designed to serve as electronic lab notebooks.

«All that's going to start with your lab notebook,» Martone says.

So it may seem odd that a handful of scientists are going to similar lengths to share not just their results but also, sometimes, their raw data — even their lab notebooks — often in real time.

It is also providing electronic lab notebooks to all researchers and instructors, to ease record keeping and make researchers» tracks easier to follow.

Open Notebook Science: At its most pure, the practice of putting the entire record of a research project — lab notebooks, raw data, drafts of proposals and papers — online in real time.

Ladd is aware that various electronic lab notebook (ELN) software packages exist, but she hasn't felt much need to explore their possibilities.

Decide on a format for lab notebooks, and check everyone's notebooks regularly to be sure they are thorough and clear.

Cell biologist Andrea Ladd of the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio keeps her lab notebook exactly the same way she was taught as an undergraduate in the early 1990s.

«Traditionally, the way that people have managed their information was that they had a lab notebook and they had their minds, and they would remember things,» says University of California, San Diego, neuroscientist Maryann Martone, who is the principal investigator of the Neuroscience Information Framework, a National Institutes of Health - funded collection of laboratory informatics resources for neuroscientists.