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Rescentris is now ELN Technologies, Inc.

We are proud to announce that Rescentris, Inc. is now called ELN Technologies, Inc. effective immediately. The new name better reflects our ongoing commitment to providing the highest quality laboratory documentation and file management software customers have come to expect from the CERF Electronic Laboratory Notebook. Over the coming months we will be converting to [...]

Technical Webinar Delayed

The technical webinar scheduled for today titled “How to properly backup your CERF server” unfortunately has to be rescheduled. The new date will be announced shortly. Our apologies for any inconvenience!

Announcing myCERF!

We are pleased to announce our all-new service, myCERF! myCERF is the FREE Social iPad ELN for scientists, available only on the Apple iPad! Building on CERF’s established focus on the collaborative nature of research, myCERF introduces NEW Sharing and Networking features. Perfect for graduate students, labs operating on small budgets, and countless others, myCERF [...]

NAABB Customer Case Study

Interested in a real life example of the selection and effectiveness of CERF? This article explains how NAABB’s leadership has created very effective distributed R&D teams using innovative “collaborative informatics” systems. The consortium members are working together to research and develop alternatives to petroleum that will help the US overcome its energy challenges. NAABB is [...]

Feb 2012 Newsletter: CERF ELN Tips, Articles, and News

CERF The Collaborative Electronic  Research Framework Making Paperless Data Management Easy Hello Everyone, We have been very busy the past few months, and would like to take a moment of your time to tell you about some of the happenings. If you haven't already heard, CERF has received it's newest product update, Version 4.5. We are excited about the [...]

Rescentris Helps Put the “Excellence” in the Next Generation of ELNs

Bio-IT World has published a new article covering the maturation of ELN software beyond simply replacing paper lab notebooks. Rescentris is often referenced in the article, “ELN Excellence: The New Lab Notebooks,” thanks to CERF’s advanced approach to collaboration, IP protection, and mobility via our iPad app iCERF. The article reports that ”for ELNs to truly replace paper, the [...]

OSU Digital Union Learns About ELNs

Students and faculty members of Ohio State University recently had a chance to learn what Electronic Lab Notebooks are and how they are used in lab research settings. CERF specialists Rob Day and Wolfgang Rumpf visited the University’s Digital Union on January 29th and talked about why ELNs are needed in modern research. During their [...]

Are You New to ELNs?

Are you just getting in to the world of electronic laboratory notebooks? Most ELN makers jump right into the details of their features without much of an introduction. Features are important because you want to know the ELN you choose will meet your needs. But all those terms won’t mean much to the newcomer. Our newest page What is an ELN? is [...]

Shared Vocabularies: Research Needs Catch Up with CERF Technology

What happens when researchers identify the same information by different terms? Consider the difficulties created in later finding or sharing existing research, whether internally through staff turnover or externally among an increasingly collaborative scientific community, when information is not recorded or tagged with uniform – or at least associated – terminology.  Many of these records [...]

Rescentris to Host CERF Panel at NAABB Conference

Rescentris representatives are hosting a panel at the National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels and Bio-products (NAABB) Keystone Meeting this week in Tempe, Arizona. The panel will be about NAABB’s use of CERF electronic lab notebook (ELN) and data management system as the central collaboration portal for organizing their research efforts. “… this consortium is comprised of [...]