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| EMEN2 is an object oriented database and electronic lab notebook. It is designed to store scientific data in a freeform way without limiting the ability to search/mine the results. Unlike a traditional database, where the contents of each record type (table) must be defined by a database administrator and strictly adhered to, each individual record in EMEN2 can have arbitrary additional parameters outside the record definition, and all such parameters remain fully searchable. | Structural and computational biologists frequently work with complex data sets assembled from diverse experimental sources, public resources, and analysis methods. Archiving and mining these data sets with their complicated interrelationships remains a persistent challenge, particularly with “open science” initiatives to make entire workflows, including all raw and intermediate data, available with publications. |
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| Records in the database may be arbitrarily linked to each other, much like the web. Any record may link to an arbitrary number of other records of arbitrary type (the record's children). Many other records may link to each record (the record's parents). This permits, for example, a publication to be linked into a publications folder as well as being linked to a specific project; or a microscopy session may be a child of both the biological research project as well as the microscope the data was collected on. | To address these needs, we have developed EMEN2, an object-oriented scientific database and electronic notebook. EMEN2 uses a flexible schema based on plain text descriptions of experimental protocols. Investigators can use standard protocols shared throughout the community, or local, private protocols used in their lab. While originally developed to serve the needs of the cryo-EM community, we believe EMEN2’s architecture provides an excellent foundation for many other scientific endeavors. |
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| You can read about EMEN2 in the manuscript: | |
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| == EMEN2 Public Data Server == | [[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23360752|Rees, I., Langley, E., Chiu, W., & Ludtke, S.J. (2013). EMEN2: an object oriented database and electronic lab notebook. Microsc Microanal 19, 1-10]] |
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| Please note, this is '''not''' the related [[EMAN2]] image processing system. == EMEN2 Mailing List == * [[http://groups.google.com/group/emen2|EMEN2 mailing list]] Please feel free to join the mailing list and ask questions, submit bug reports, or share results. == EMEN2 Demo == |
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| An [[EMEN2/Public_Data_Server|overview document]] has been created to orient new users to the EMEN2 web interface. | An [[EMEN2/Public_Data_Server|overview document]] has been created to introduce new users to the EMEN2 web interface. It includes a number of screenshots. |
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| == Documents == | == EMEN2 Installation and Configuration == * [[http://pypi.python.org/pypi/emen2|EMEN2 download]] |
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| * [[http://ncmi.bcm.edu/ncmi/software/software_details?selected_software=EMEN2|Download]] | * [[EMEN2/Dependencies|Dependencies]] |
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| * [[EMEN2/Dependencies|Dependencies]] | * [[EMEN2/Install|Installation]] |
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| * [[EMEN2/Install|Install]] | * The [[EMEN2/emen2ctl|EMEN2 control script (emen2ctl)]] and [[EMEN2/Startup|starting the server at boot]] |
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| * [[EMEN2/config.yml|Configuration]] | * [[EMEN2/Hardware|Planning hardware requirements]] |
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| * [[EMEN2/User_Guide|User Guide]] | == EMEN2 Guides == * [[EMEN2/Public_Data_Server|Basic EMEN2 overview]] |
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| * [[EMEN2/Integration|Instrument Integration]] | * [[EMEN2/Backups|Backups and recovery]] |
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| * [[EMEN2/Ontologies|EMEN2 Ontologies]] | == EMEN2 API == * [[EMEN2/api|Public API documentation]] |
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| * [[EMEN2/FAQ|FAQ]] | * [[EMEN2/rpc|Remote API access]] * [[EMEN2/Extensions|Writing EMEN2 extensions]] == EMDash: EMEN2 Client documentation == * [[http://pypi.python.org/pypi/emdash|EMDash download]] * [[EMEN2/emdash/Install|EMDash installation]] * [[EMEN2/emdash/Tutorial|EMDash tutorial]] |
EMEN2
An extesible, object-oriented electronic lab notebook
Structural and computational biologists frequently work with complex data sets assembled from diverse experimental sources, public resources, and analysis methods. Archiving and mining these data sets with their complicated interrelationships remains a persistent challenge, particularly with “open science” initiatives to make entire workflows, including all raw and intermediate data, available with publications.
To address these needs, we have developed EMEN2, an object-oriented scientific database and electronic notebook. EMEN2 uses a flexible schema based on plain text descriptions of experimental protocols. Investigators can use standard protocols shared throughout the community, or local, private protocols used in their lab. While originally developed to serve the needs of the cryo-EM community, we believe EMEN2’s architecture provides an excellent foundation for many other scientific endeavors.
You can read about EMEN2 in the manuscript:
Please note, this is not the related EMAN2 image processing system.
EMEN2 Mailing List
Please feel free to join the mailing list and ask questions, submit bug reports, or share results.
EMEN2 Demo
There is a publicly accessible, read-only EMEN2 installation for accessing the NCMI's public datasets:
An overview document has been created to introduce new users to the EMEN2 web interface. It includes a number of screenshots.
EMEN2 Installation and Configuration
EMEN2 Guides
EMEN2 API