The Trusted ELN Implementation Partner for Life Sciences
Astrix has supported laboratory informatics projects for life science organizations for more than 30 years. Our ELN consultants combine deep scientific domain knowledge with hands-on platform expertise, so your electronic laboratory notebook rollout reflects the way your scientists work.
Your electronic laboratory notebook is where every experiment, observation and result gets captured - which makes it the single most important record in your lab. Astrix is a global laboratory informatics services leader with expertise in electronic lab notebook (ELN) evaluation, selection, implementation, and integration. We help R&D and regulated testing organizations move away from paper lab notebooks and fragmented spreadsheets toward a secure, searchable and fully validated electronic notebook environment.
Astrix is a full-service ELN life sciences services firm with expertise across:
Business process mapping
System evaluation, selection, and implementation
Data management
Custom development
System integration
On-premise, hybrid and cloud data storage systems
Legacy system migration
Data migration
System validation
User training
The Astrix team will develop a comprehensive list of vendors to consider for the customer’s LIMS implementation project. Through an extensive evaluation process, we will review all vendors that fit the customer’s requirements and budget, examining every potential option. Our vendor-agnostic approach means that our selection is impartial and unbiased, allowing us to provide objective advice on which vendors should be considered. Furthermore, we will provide a rationale for each selected vendor to ensure that the customer fully understands why specific solutions may be more beneficial than others. We are committed to delivering an informative and thoroughly researched list of vendors that includes all viable options within the confines of the customer’s project requirements and budget.
Astrix is partnered and works with the Who’s Who in Laboratory Informatics Technology globally. We bring decades of unique application-specific expertise that helps ensure we recommend, implement and support the right technology for your laboratory.
Astrix has a stellar reputation in the ELN community as being the “Go To” services partner when a ELN system needs to be installed the right way…the first time.
We understand how important it is for systems implementations and deployments to go smoothly, so we take care in every step of our process – from requirements gathering through final deployment – to ensure success. Our team of experts includes engineers, developers, testers, and consultants who have extensive experience with implementing business solutions. They bring technical insight and knowledge about industry-specific regulations or other standards that may need to be followed for successful delivery.
Astrix is committed to delivering a successful system implementation and deployment that aligns with the client’s processes and procedures. Successful implementations are based on extensive planning, testing, and stakeholder communication. Our methodology is tailored to each specific client but typically involves four key steps: discovery & assessment; design & build; test & optimize; and launch & support as outlined in the program milestones below:
An electronic laboratory notebook, or ELN, is software that replaces the traditional paper lab notebook as the system of record for experimental work. Instead of handwritten pages, scientists document protocols, observations, calculations, and results directly in the electronic notebook, where entries are timestamped, attributable, and searchable.Modern ELN software typically supports structured and unstructured data capture, electronic signatures, audit trails, chemistry-aware tools like structure drawing and reaction search, and direct integration with lab instruments and a laboratory information management system (LIMS). For regulated life sciences organizations, an ELN also needs to support 21 CFR Part 11 compliance, data integrity requirements, and long-term, defensible electronic records - the same expectations that governed the paper lab notebook, now applied to a digital environment.
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This is one of the most common questions we hear, and the short answer is that ELN and LIMS solve related but distinct problems. An electronic lab notebook is built around the experiment – the narrative of what a scientist did, why, and what they observed, similar to a chemistry notebook or research journal. A LIMS is built around the sample – tracking it through a workflow, tests, results, and disposition, typically in a QC or high-throughput testing environment.
Many life science organizations run ELN and LIMS side by side, with integration between the two so that experimental context from the notebook connects to sample and test data in the LIMS. Astrix has deep expertise in both, which means we design your ELN and LIMS environment as one connected data ecosystem rather than two disconnected systems.
Astrix has extensive experience with these leading ELN/LIMS Software Applications:
To learn more about additional life sciences technology platforms supported by Astrix, explore our Partner Ecosystem.
