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= 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:

[[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]]

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 ==
There is a publicly accessible, read-only EMEN2 installation for accessing the NCMI's public datasets:

 * http://ncmi.bcm.edu/publicdata/

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.

== EMEN2 Installation and Configuration ==
 * [[http://pypi.python.org/pypi/emen2|EMEN2 download]]

 * [[EMEN2/Dependencies|Dependencies]]

 * [[EMEN2/Install|Installation]]

 * The [[EMEN2/emen2ctl|EMEN2 control script (emen2ctl)]] and [[EMEN2/Startup|starting the server at boot]]

 * [[EMEN2/Hardware|Planning hardware requirements]]

== EMEN2 Guides ==
 * [[EMEN2/Public_Data_Server|Basic EMEN2 overview]]

 * [[EMEN2/Backups|Backups and recovery]]

== EMEN2 API ==
 * [[EMEN2/api|Public API documentation]]

 * [[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]]