LabArchives vs Phoenix ELN

LabArchives is a suite of online applications for documenting research data and managing laboratory resources. Its ELN for Research records, organizes, searches, and shares scientific data; Inventory organizes, tracks, and orders lab inventory; and Scheduler manages equipment and other resources. The ELN includes more than 20 built-in widgets and supports custom widgets, with integrations such as GraphPad Prism, SnapGene, REDCap, Jupyter, and Protocols.io. A free plan includes two owned notebooks, 1GB per user, and a 25MB file limit. Professional Academic costs $330 a year per user, with unlimited owned notebooks, 100GB per user, and a 250MB file limit. Browser access works on Windows, macOS, and Linux, while mobile browsers support image, video, and audio capture; an Android app wraps the browser-based session. LabArchives lists audit trails, electronic signatures, approval workflows, and offline access, with PDF and read-only offline HTML in ZIP export formats. It states certifications including FedRAMP, SOC 2, and ISO 27001, and support for HIPAA and GDPR requirements.

Phoenix ELN is a free, open-source electronic lab notebook for Windows, designed for organic, organometallic and peptide chemistry. Experiment protocols can place reactants, reagents, solvents, comments, products, images and files in workflow order. Adding materials supplies stoichiometric information such as equivalents and millimoles. The self-learning materials database contains nearly 200 commonly used reagents, solvents and auxiliaries, with cross-checked molecular weights and densities. An integrated drawing editor supports organic, organometallic, peptide and resin-bound structures. Reaction substructure searches work across local experiments; an optional server extends searches to finalized experiments across an organization. Phoenix ELN runs without a server connection and supports offline access. The optional in-house server adds continuous backup, experiment sharing and organization-wide searches, with an installation script for MySQL or MariaDB. Protocols export to PDF compliant with PDF/A-3b, embedding inserted documents as PDF attachments; ZIP, JPEG, PNG and TIF are also listed. Support is directed to GitHub Issues and Discussions.