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CERF - The Electronic Lab Notebook for Biology and Multidisciplinary Life Sciences

CERF-Notebook™ Provides a simple yet powerful interface for recording your research and accessing shared resources. Projects, documents, data, and notebooks are managed centrally on your secure CERF Server but can be created and utilized from anywhere that the user has an Internet connection. CERF-Notebook lets users organize their thoughts, ideas, and data into the real research story - much as a paper notebook does, but with the benefits of sharing, searching, digital signatures, templates, and more!

CERF is an extensible and scalable solution that meets needs and improves research performance in many organizations:

	Pharmaceutical companies and departments CERF is the Notebook and daily research environment (knowledge desktop) for your life scientists and integrates into your enterprise information infrastructure
	Biotechnology and service companies The CERF ELN and scientific content management solution may serve all of your needs out of the box, and CERF is readily tailored to support the scientists' activities and information workflows
	Government labs CERF provides the secure record-keeping and research collaboration platform needed for an internal department or for research projects distributed across multiple sites and diverse scientific units
	Academic departments and laboratories Our cross-platform CERF product may be the turnkey solution for your university lab, department, or core facility. CERF provides record-keeping (notebook) as well as shared information management and project organization in an adaptable, low-maintenance system designed for diverse users and workgroups

CERF provides the features you need in an ELN solution – and addresses the requirements
of all your stakeholders.

Key features of CERF include:

	Works the way your scientists work
	Compliant with 21 CFR Part 11: Audit trails, time/date stamps, security, access controls, user authentication, document versioning, digital signatures, PDF reports
	Captures annotations, scientific interpretation:  record the trail of discovery
	Offers search capabilities based on full-text content, rich metadata, controlled vocabularies
	Increases accuracy, efficiency, and user compliance with templates and forms for protocols and data capture
	Built on ontologies – easy to customize scientific data models, templates, business policies
	Guides planning and decision making for the organization
	Designed for usability: graphical interface, highly interactive
	Promotes organization and sharing of projects, experiments, notebooks, reports