Signals Notebook
PerkinElmer Signals™ Notebook is a powerful web-based Electronic Lab Notebook, enabling users to instantly author and manage notebooks and experiments, facilitating Scientific Collaboration.
Signals™ Notebook allows you to achieve meaningful scientific breakthroughs – faster, smarter, and easier to keep track of your material evidence. It also provides you with an effective scientific research data management solution, where you can write up your research data in notebooks and experiments, drag & drop, store, organize, share, find and filter data with chemical ease.
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Signals Notebook provides you with an effective scientific research data management solution, where you can write up your research data in notebooks and experiments, drag & drop, store, organize, share, find and filter data with chemical ease.
Because Signals Notebook is software-as-a-service there is no need to:
- Buy hardware or install software – be globally enabled in no time
- Worry about timely and costly upgrades – PerkinElmer releases updates roughly every 3-6 weeks with additional functionality. See What’s New
- Spend time and resources on maintenance
Some of the features include:
- Create or attach your Office documents with your experiments, directly update them by choosing either Office or Office Online
- Electronically record and store scientific data, so you can be more effective, reproducible, and accurate and rely on Signals Notebook to find it again quickly
- Express your chemistry ideas using the market leading chemistry application, ChemDraw®, available with no additional install.
- 100% web based. No software to download, no hardware to buy, or IT assets to maintain. Click and Go!
- Connect with colleagues and collaborators anywhere in the world. Start discussions, give feedback, coordinate follow-on experiments, and stay in sync
PerkinElmer Signals Notebook allows you to achieve meaningful scientific breakthroughs by keeping track of material evidence – faster, smarter, and easier.
News
For the latest upgrades of Signals Notebook check here
Comparison
Signals Notebook - Which Version Is Right For Me?
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Signals Notebook Private Cloud Provides all of the functionality offered in the Standard version, yet provides control over mandatory updates. Software updates are not executed automatically, enabling organizations to achieve greater control over when and how changes are made, as typically required for a validated environment. Signals Notebook Private Cloud seamlessly supports the validation of processes used in controlled workflows. Additional test environments can also be provided.
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Signals Notebook Standard Is designed to provide scientists with the tools they need to design, record and share their experiments. Signals Notebook provides organizations with peace of mind, delivering a business-friendly framework to support the security, configurability and administrative capabilities demanded by today’s leading research and industrial organizations. Organizations have control over sharing of experiments both throughout their enterprise and external to their organization, such as allowing controlled access to external partners. Administrators can define metadata to be captured along with experiments, and the access rules based upon them such as setting up a project or auto-numbering rules for experiments. Organizations also retain ownership of the data when researchers move on. |
Signals Notebook Individual Provides access to the same data capture and scientific workflow capabilities as PerkinElmer Signals Notebook Standard, but is designed to facilitate a more flexible sharing and collaborative model where individual researchers maintain ownership and control of their own data. Ideally suited for researchers who want to share with a wide variety of users inside and outside of their organizations (such as researchers at universities). Signals Notebook Individual Edition is only available to licensees of ChemOffice® Professional, our premiere chemical sketching and scientific productivity suite. Signals Notebook Individual Edition provides a lower-cost entry into the modern scientific collaboration platform of PerkinElmer Signals Notebook Standard for users who do not require organizational control.
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System requirements
Hardware Requirements
Any mid-range client machine with minimum 8GB of RAM should be sufficient. Note: Signals Notebook is not qualified currently on mobile platforms (tablets, phones).
Software Requirements
- We support most modern browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari 11, and Chromium-based Microsoft Edge.
- For the ChemDraw® Web Clipboard extension, Java Runtime Environment 1.7+ may be required according to end user's Operating System and browser.
- Editing in ChemDraw® Desktop requires ChemDraw® 17.1 or above for PC and ChemDraw® 17.1.1 for Mac. ChemDraw Edit in Desktop 17.1 is supported in Sierra and High Sierra operating system on Mac and Windows 7 and 10.
- ChemDraw® Edit in Desktop 18.2 is supported in MacOS High Sierra and Mojave and Windows 7 (32- bit and 64-bit), 8.1 (64-bit) and 10 (64-bit).
- Editing in Tibco Spotfire requires Tibco Spotfire Analyst LTS 10.3 or 10.10. The add-in SignalsNotebookSpotfireOpener-v1.x.spk must also be installed on the Spotfire server and distributed to the user. Editing in Spotfire is supported in Windows 10 system only. The file size limit that is supported for opening and saving dxp files in Spotfire is 50 MB. Users can modify larger files via Windows Registry Editor, for more details please refer to: https://support.microsoft.com/ensg/help/2668751/you-cannot-download-more-than-50-mb-or-upload-large-files-when-the-upl.
Supported Environments
Following environments are supported:
| Browser | Operating System | JAVA (Required for ChemDraw Web Clipboard Extension only) |
| Google Chrome | Windows or macOS | Not required |
| Mozilla Firefox 50 or later | Windows or macOS | Not required |
| Apple Safari 10 or later | macOS 10.12 or later | Not required |
| Chromium-based Microsoft Edge | Windows or macOS | Not required |
MS Office
Signals Notebook is qualified to work with MSOffice 2016 and MSOffice 2019. To work with Online MSOffice option, you need to have a valid Office 365 account with Office Online subscription. The following table covers the file size limits for viewing and editing documents in Office Online:
| Application | Size Limit in View Mode | Size Limit in Edit Mode |
| Excel Online | 5 MB | 5 MB |
| PowerPoint Online | None | 300 MB |
| Word Online | None | None |
SAML
Signals Notebook supports SAML 2.0 IDPs.
| PKI requires from the customer | PKI provides to the customer |
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Training
Upcoming trainings and events can be found at:
https://alfasoft.science/events/
Support
If the answer is not on the product page, please contact us via our support form.
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Remember to always inform about which product version you have and which operating system you use (both platform and version).
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