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SciNote is a leading locally installed or cloud-based Laboratory management system with: Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN), Lab Information Management System (LIMS) and laboratory data management features, designed to support scientists, lab teams, and research organizations in managing, organizing, and protecting scientific data. Founded in 2015, SciNote is headquartered in Middleton, Wisconsin, USA, with offices in Europe and a global customer base spanning over 100 countries. The platform is trusted by more than 100,000 scientists and renowned institutions such as the FDA, USDA, and the European Commission. Key Features of SciNote: - Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN): Intuitive experiment planning and data documentation - Inventory & Sample Tracking: Organize and trace reagents, materials, and samples - SOP & Protocol Management: Standardized, version-controlled workflows - Compliance-Ready Infrastructure: Built to support 21 CFR Part 11, GxP, and ISO 27001 standards - Project & Task Management: Centralize team activities and deadlines across research programs - User Roles & Permissions: Role-based access control for secure collaboration - API & Integration: RESTful API and interoperability with instruments, LIMS, and analytics platforms - Data Security: Encrypted cloud hosting with full audit trails and activity logs What SciNote Solves: SciNote solves the complexity of managing scientific workflows, fragmented documentation, and disconnected teams by offering one unified platform that brings clarity, consistency, and compliance to research environments. It replaces paper notebooks and spreadsheets with structured digital records that help: Reduce time spent on repetitive documentation Improve collaboration across lab teams and departments Maintain audit-ready compliance with regulatory standards Protect institutional knowledge and intellectual property Accelerate research workflows and data-driven decision-making Whether you're in biotech, pharma, medtech, diagnostics, agritech, CRO/CDMO services, or academic and government research, SciNote provides a scalable solution to modernize lab operations while ensuring scientific and regulatory integrity. Learn more at https://www.scinote.net

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SciNote Demo - SciNote Electronic Lab Notebook - dashboard overview

SciNote’s dashboard keeps you instantly informed on all important work details relevant to you. It helps you keep track of tasks, deadlines, the work you recently completed, and e-signature requests (for Validated and Platinum plan).

SciNote Demo - Managing projects with SciNote Electronic Lab Notebook

SciNote’s unique projects/experiment/task structure allows you to manage all projects in the lab, assign team members to projects, manage project access, and keep everyone notified of the project's progress.

SciNote Demo - Inventory management in SciNote Electronic Lab Notebook

Use SciNote’s inventory management feature to organize samples, reagents, and equipment, and connect all data with experiments and results. Stock management and label printing are available as add-ons.

SciNote Demo - Experiments in SciNote Electronic Lab Notebook

Create workflows in SciNote, so you don’t miss a step in your experiment. Use the same workflow many times? Turn it into a template to ensure consistency throughout your processes.

SciNote Demo - Organizing your tasks in SciNote ELN

Organize your experiment tasks without losing track of everything you need – Cross-reference inventories, protocols, and other experiment information using smart annotation. Questions? Use comments and tags to engage other lab members to help move the task forward.

SciNote Demo - Specialized search function in SciNote ELN

The specialized search function will help you locate what you need quickly – no need to sift through a random list of search results.

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Verified User in Biotechnology

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/22/2025

"A reliable and flexible ELN for labs"

5/5

What do you like best about SciNote?

SciNote has made our documentation process more efficient, enhanced our ability to collaborate, and supported us in developing our lab automation workflows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SciNote?

Getting accustomed to the platform can be a bit challenging initially, particularly for those who are new to it. Certain aspects seem somewhat rigid, and I would appreciate having greater flexibility when it comes to editing or customizing tasks. Additionally, I’ve noticed that working on larger projects can cause the platform to slow down somewhat. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Valinda J.

Research Associate

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/29/2025

"Effortless Project Tracking, But Occasional Saving Issues"

4.5/5

What do you like best about SciNote?

Easy to track different projects. Easily organized and can search something that I am looking for quickly. I love that I can refer to other notebooks for reference. I use it daily and can show other researchers easily how to use and manage it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SciNote?

It doesn't save my information always. I like that it restores draft but sometimes it doesn't at all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

tomas W.

Lab Tech

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/20/2025

"My SciNote Experience"

3.5/5

What do you like best about SciNote?

What I like best about SciNote is its clear project structure—it lets you organize experiments, tasks, and protocols in a logical, easy-to-navigate way. This makes it simple to keep track of data and progress, especially when working on complex or collaborative research. The built-in compliance features are also a big plus for regulated environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SciNote?

What I dislike about SciNote is that it can be a bit clunky when working with certain file types, especially Excel—uploads or integrations aren’t always smooth. Also, the interface, while generally user-friendly, can feel a bit slow or unintuitive in more advanced workflows. It’s not a dealbreaker, but there’s definitely room for refinement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SciNote solving and how is that benefiting you?

SciNote solves several key problems in lab work: disorganized data, poor collaboration, and lack of compliance tracking. By centralizing all experiments, protocols, and results in one place, it makes it easier to stay organized and ensures that nothing gets lost. The collaboration tools help teams stay on the same page, and the built-in compliance features (like audit trails and electronic signatures) are essential for meeting regulatory requirements. For me, this has meant less time spent hunting for files and more confidence in the integrity and traceability of my work Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/11/2026

"Very Responsive Support and an Excellent Development Team"

5/5

What do you like best about SciNote?

Very responsive support team. Excellent development team. Great customer support reachout. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SciNote?

It is expensive (although not the most expensive, and the team were supportive with regards to discount options in the early stages), and I work in different labs that use different software solutions. Life would be easier if everyone used SciNote. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jacob F.

Scientist II

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/19/2025

"Robust organizational tools"

3.5/5

What do you like best about SciNote?

Scinote allows for very detailed organization of projects and experiments. I appreciate the breakdown of broader projects, to experimental goals, to tasks within the experiments. I've found this to be a helpful way to organize my workflow. The search function is also super helpful in finding experiments I need to review. Within each task the ease of putting all the data generated by an experiment simplified our data storage and gave us the ability store a wide variety of data types. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SciNote?

Our work involves chemical drawing structures and SciNote lacks native chemical structure implementation. It requires a separate license. The table function is also a little bit clunky and difficult to resize. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SciNote solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our work generated very desperate data types. Mass spec, NMR, imaging, chromatography, etc. SciNote allowed us to store all these types of data within the experiment from which they were generated. This simplified our work flow and made it much easier to find information from different sources. Helping us with grant writing and summarizing our work for internal and external meetings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rawan A.

Lab Scientist

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/14/2024

"It is a user-friendly tool for lab digitization."

4/5

What do you like best about SciNote?

Stock management is highly effective and fully customizable.

Documentation processes are smooth and efficient.

Easily integrates with other tools, such as Microsoft Office.

Lab members can plan their days/weeks using SciNote

Support staff are helpful and friendly.

Open to client feedback and new ideas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SciNote?

Navigation between tasks could be more seamless.

Editing items in the inventory could be more streamlined. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SciNote solving and how is that benefiting you?

SciNote was purchased primarily to solve two key challenges:

Documenting Lab Experiments and Results: SciNote has streamlined our documentation process, making it more organized and accessible, which has been a significant improvement since we began using it.

Reducing Manual Data Transfer: Initially, transferring data from the lab to our database required substantial manual effort. With some optimization, SciNote has helped automate much of this process, ultimately providing an efficient solution.

These improvements have saved us time, minimized errors, and allowed us to focus more on research and analysis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Radharani B.

Post doctoral researcher

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/29/2025

"Secure Digital Lab Notebook"

4/5

What do you like best about SciNote?

Scinote is a digital and safe way to record my lab data and protocols. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SciNote?

Sometimes is difficult to link different pages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Biotechnology

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/19/2025

"Traceable, but infuriating"

2/5

What do you like best about SciNote?

The traceability of SciNote, being able to see who's made changes, and when is very useful. Also being able to return to older experiments on a day-to-day basis to pull up details has been vital in the lab when experiments have needed to be repeated with slight tweaks. We use SciNote everyday, and haven't had any issues with implementing it into our schedules, for easy to use documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SciNote?

Formatting is quite difficult at times - particularly when it comes to tables and table editing. Whether it be copy pasting tables from other documents (e.g. Word), or trying to make changes to ones inserted in SciNote, it is very difficult to get a table that not only looks good, but also performs the necessary function of displaying information in a compact manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SciNote solving and how is that benefiting you?

SciNote has made inventory tracking easier, particularly with comments, so we know where specific components can be tracked, whether they have been handed off to another team/department, or moved to a new location in the lab.

It has also made keeping a Lab Notebook easier, and saves time, as writing is minimised, and instead, experiment details are typed up, and easily changed as required - but as always are always traceable, to ensure that any changes can be asked about directly to the person who made them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Alternative Medicine

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/19/2025

"Sci-Note is a very helpful tool utilized by my company for organizing information."

4/5

What do you like best about SciNote?

Sci-Note helps my company organize groups of inventories very well. It was very easy to learn to use when starting my job, as I had not used Sci-Note at any previous employers. I use it daily and it makes finding documents very easy as they can be attached in inventories. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SciNote?

I wish there was a way to attach two different documents to an item in the inventory tab. I also wish there was a way to link two items together in different inventory groups so that when you find one there would be a link to another. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SciNote solving and how is that benefiting you?

The electronic lab notebook allows us to find information and test results on any sample with only a few clicks. When trying to put together reports of sample information this speeds up the process exponentially compared to looking through physical notebooks for results. This saves me time every day and also helps to keep accountability on all test results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/11/2023

"Great online lab notebook software"

5/5

What do you like best about SciNote?

SciNote is a wonderful resource for an online laboratory notebook. Being able to put a checklist for a formula, add comments during the procedure to explain what went right or wrong, attach a PDF of my formula and even upload pictures/other documents makes my SciNote lab notebook even better than my old physical notebook. I love the duplicate feature, where I can just create a new page and slightly modify the procedure (or anything else), but I do not have to retype the entire process. I also love the protocol/template aspect of the software. Using SciNote allows for more time for experimenting! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SciNote?

I do not really have complaints, I love using SciNote. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.