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What is CERF? CERF is a secure enterprise software product that catalyzes research and allows organizations to enjoy the benefits, efficiencies and long-term cost savings of paperless data storage and lab management. CERF is extremely flexible and includes a wide range of features and modules designed specifically to address modern scientific data management challenges. CERF consists of…	Rescentris Advantage  CERF does an excellent job helping diverse R&D laboratories manage projects and documents. Customers use the CERF ELN to promote scientific collaboration and to control intellectual property. Moreover, the Rescentris CERF ELN is an uncomplicated, affordable system that provides exceptional value to end users…
Why you Need to buy an ELN Today! By Dr. Wolfgang Rumpf, Product Specialist, Rescentris Two hundred years ago, when Sir Isaac Newton and his colleagues implemented a major paradigm shift from alchemy to science − rational thought, hypothesis, test, repeat – it was fine to record results …	Products and Services Rescentris is a full-service vendor who can help you with every aspect of your CERF deployment and organization-wide data integration needs. This document describes some of the services we offer and partners we work with that will help your deployment go smoothly.
Browser-based vs. Client-Server-based ELNs:  Which is right for your Organization? By Dr. Wolfgang Rumpf, Product Specialist, Rescentris There are many Electronic Lab Notebooks on the market, and picking the right one for your organization can be confusing. One of the issues that you may run across is whether or not to choose a “cross-platform” ELN; meaning it will run on Windows as well as on Mac OS X…	CERF Architecture Overview Rescentris CERF is designed to support collaborative research efforts through use of the Electronic Lab Notebook and Scientific Content Management components, while at the same time minimizing the impact of the system on the organization’s IT infrastructure. This document presents a high-level overview of the CERF system architecture…
CERF – 21 CFR PART 11 COMPLIANCE Compliance with FDA regulations places a substantial burden on your organization.  This document details how CERF complies with the various requirements of 21 CFR Part 11.	CERF Security We are often asked to provide details on what measures CERF uses to secure our customers’ data. At Rescentris we take data security and integrity very seriously. This is the cornerstone of our electronic laboratory notebook, CERF. CERF ensures both data security…
It’s Academic: Data Portability and ELNs By Dr. Wolfgang Rumpf, Product Specialist, Rescentris The Life Sciences are slowly but surely making the move into Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs), and while much attention has been focused on the barriers to entry into ELNs, so far little has been spent on the flip side of that coin – getting data back out of an ELN…	CERF Multidiscipline CERF is a highly flexible data capture and document management solution that was designed to help scientists and administrators in any research environment. Right out of the box, CERF can be used in almost any discipline with no need for expensive customizations. Our customers are diverse and include academic labs, …
ELN Activation Energy: The Top 10 Reasons Users Won’t Use Your ELN & How to Overcome Them When an organization adopts an ELN, it is making a long-term commitment and a serious investment of time and effort. The organization will place its trust in whatever system it ultimately implements with its life’s blood, …	Chemistry Functionality This plugin architecture enables us to display sequence traces or sequence ?les directly inline, not as ?le icons that need to be opened in a separate application, nor as static images – the plug-in architecture allows CERF to dynamically display and browse through data, as well as manipulate it in real time…
Ten steps to protect your R&D investment within partnerships By Dr. Jeff Spitzner, President & Chief Science Officer, Rescentris The R&D landscape is changing for the life sciences industry and it is increasingly important to collaborate to carry out key activities across the drug development lifecycle. Partnerships of many sorts can deliver tremendous benefits…	Rescentris Manager Experience The Rescentris team has already demonstrated that it has the management, technical, and business expertise to conduct innovative IT research, develop products based on the new technologies, test these thoroughly (internally and with partners), and improve and refine them based on user feedback, and then deliver these ….
Defining the Requirements for an Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) for Biologists Biologists have diverse requirements for an ELN capable of managing lab records and improving their research performance. Rescentris designed its ELN product CERF specifically to meet the needs of Biology and multidiscipline life sciences R&D organizations…	Working with Flow Cytometry Data in CERF using FlowJo (FlowJo is a product of Tree Star, Inc.) Flow Cytometry is a common methodology used in biological research and many scientists use the software application called FlowJo to analyze flow cytometry data. This CERF ELN Application Note describes how to use CERF together with FlowJo to manage flow cytometry data and also maintain good records for the laboratory.
ELNs and Pharmaceutical Industry Science is more collaborative, more dispersed, and more immediate. Collaborators are down the hall as well as across oceans, and we need to collaborate instantly, because we aren’t the only ones fighting for that grant/patent/publication. Everything has to happen now − it needs to be validated and time-date stamped, and it must adhere to standards and regulations…	Rescentris CERF ELN Product Differentiation The CERF ELN and document management system is an enterprise grade software solution that is designed for use in any size research organization where secure and compliant scientific record keeping, knowledge management and controlled collaboration are important. CERF was built by scientists, for scientists. Its architecture…
AbsoluteProof® from Surety® Independently-Verifiable, Long-lasting Proof of Record Authenticity Value Summary Built on ISO/IEC 18014-2 and ANSI X9.95 Trusted Time Stamp standards, the AbsoluteProof Service from Surety ensures the integrity of electronic records, files or any digital content by establishing that they were created on a specific date and have not been tampered with since. It is the only long-lived, cryptographically verifiable data integrity service in the world….