About Hivebench

Hivebench is an easy-to-use Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) built by life scientists who understand the field’s workflows and pain points. Whatever your role in the lab - researcher, PI, lab manager – Hivebench’s comprehensive, consistent and structured data capture provides a simple and safe way to manage and preserve protocols and research data.

Hivebench helps life scientists unlock the full potential of their research data

By integrating Hivebench ELN with an institutional repository, or the free data repository Mendeley Data, you can maximize the potential of your research data (see diagram below) and secure its long-term archiving. Hivebench supports compliance with data mandates and the storage of research process details, making results more transparent, reproducible and easier to store and share.

10 aspects of highly effective research data

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Why use an Electronic Lab Notebook

Storing information in private files or paper notebooks poses challenges, not only for individual life scientists, but for their lab as a whole. An Electronic Lab Notebook stores research data in a well-structured format for ease of reuse, and simplifies the process of sharing and preserving information. It also structures workflows and protocols to improve experiment reproducibility.

Experiment
Paper notebooks are a pain because life scientists…		Workflow	Using Hivebench provides gains because life scientists can…
Don’t have access to protocols and data in the same place		Prepare		Provide colleagues with continuous access to protocols and data
Can’t bring paper into the lab Risk losing paper drafts Don’t have a place to share results	Execute	Access all data and protocols at any time Store the progress of their work in real-time
Spent lot of time writing Data & protocols not in same place Don’t have search features Need to decipher notes from colleagues Can’t create consistency across processes	Analyze	Control who accesses their data Track comments and conversations Analyse in real time at the bench
Need to rewrite sections of drafts Have to deal with data security issues Can’t comply with funders / FDA Don’t have a uniform format for sharing	Share	Have templates to share results in a consistent way Comply with funder / FDA mandates Securely share their work
Spent a lot of time each day on signing Can hide failure from PI	Close (daily)	Sign off automatically Preserve all data in a non-proprietary format Provide PIs with clear progress updates

In-depth view on Hivebench features