Indigo ELN vs LabCollector ELN

Indigo ELN is a free electronic lab notebook for creating, storing, retrieving, and sharing chemistry records. It organizes work into projects, notebooks, experiments, and components, while allowing experiment templates and added components without changing the core code. Ketcher provides chemical structure editing, and Indigo handles reaction rendering and chemical property calculations. Searches can use entity attributes, or product structures and reaction schemes with BingoDB integration. APIs connect customer services, databases, and electronic signature services. Role-based authorities and access control lists govern projects, notebooks, and experiments. Pages can be printed to PDF, and SDF files can be imported or exported. The system runs on the web and can be self-hosted; the maker says a Docker image is available, with documented local Docker and AWS deployment. The core product is free under GNU GPL version 3 and provided without warranty. EPAM offers paid customization, integration, support, and maintenance. The demo environment is unavailable while work continues toward a public version 3.0 environment.

LabCollector ELN organizes experimental data in books that teams can share, with tree-style structure and keyword or content search for finding records. Its editor supports text, tables, images, linked LabCollector records, a flat spreadsheet and Zoho Sheet. Users can build custom fields and templates for pages, reactions and spreadsheets, then associate workflows with pages. The ELN describes audit trails, activity and task-time logs, and optional versioning for books, experiments and pages. Electronic signature validation based on CFR 21 Part 11 is available only in the Compliancy Pack. A Chemistry plugin supports reaction design and importing structures from LabCollector’s Chemical Structures module. AgileBio offers cloud hosting and self-hosting; deployments can run on an intranet, one computer or a web server account. The free Startup Pack is free and includes 3 users and 1,000 data records; ELN is optional, limited to 500 pages and experiments. The ELN Pack starts at €600 a year and includes unlimited pages and experiments.