Electronic lab notebooks: can they replace paper?

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Title: Electronic lab notebooks: can they replace paper?

Study Link: https://jcheminf.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13321-017-0221-3
Citation: @doi:10.1186/s13321-017-0221-3

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• GitHub
• Lab Notebook

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• ecology and/or evolution;
• biostatistics;
• informatics and computational research;
• open science and reproducibility

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Paper that discusses importance of keeping lab notebooks, and the possibility that they be replaced by digital versions.

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