Chemotion ELN Instruction Videos

Chemotion ELN Instruction Videos

Chemotion^[1] is an open source system for storing and managing experiments and molecular data in chemistry and its related sciences. The system mainly consists of two components: the electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) Chemotion ELN^[2] for recording and evaluating experiments and their analytical data, and the Chemotion repository^[3,4] for publishing these data. As the ELN is linked to the repository, entries can be easily transferred from the lab journal to the repository. Data, including their machine-readable metadata, are published in the repository under open access conditions and thus fulfill the FAIR data principles (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable).^[5] These principles serve as a foundation for sustainable data management within the framework of good scientific practice.^[6]

For the use of Chemotion and to explain its basic functions, we created explanatory videos to help newcomers getting started with the ELN. These videos cover important topics from creating molecules, to evaluating analytic data, to sharing entries. The videos are divided into different topic blocks and deal in each case with specific functions. The structure of the topic blocks and videos is provided in the PDF document in this Zenodo entry. Please note that entries with a gray background in this document will only be available in later versions of the Zenodo entry.

Chemotion ELN Instruction Videos on YouTube

Find the instruction videos additionally on Chemotion's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1AonKd9WAd8cDjzXGiNu0ndoctNu0izs

Acknowledgement

First and foremost, the authors would like to thank Nicole Parks for recording the English audio tracks. The authors are grateful to Nicole Jung for further explanations of Chemotion's features and help in creating and revising the videos. Furthermore, the authors would like to thank Anna Manukânc for her help with the conceptual development of the videos.

Literature

[1]            Chemotion. https://chemotion.net/ (accessed 02/19/2023).

[2]            Tremouilhac, P., Nguyen, A., Huang, Y.-C., Kotov, S., Lütjohann, D. S., Hübsch, F., Jung, N., Bräse, S., J. Cheminform. 2017, 9, 54.

[3]            Tremouilhac, P., Lin, C.-L., Huang, P.-C., Huang, Y.-C., Nguyen, A., Jung, N., Bach, F., Ulrich, R., Neumair, B., Streit, A., Bräse, S., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 22771-22778; Angew. Chem. 2020, 132, 22960-22968.

[4]            Tremouilhac, P., Huang, P.-C., Lin, C.-L., Huang, Y.-C., Nguyen, A., Jung, N., Bach, F., Bräse, S., Chemistry–Methods 2021, 1, 8-11.

[5]            Wilkinson, M. D., Dumontier, M., Aalbersberg, I. J., Appleton, G., Axton, M., Baak, A., Blomberg, N., Boiten, J.-W., da Silva Santos, L. B., Bourne, P. E., Bouwman, J., Brookes, A. J., Clark, T., Crosas, M., Dillo, I., Dumon, O., Edmunds, S., Evelo, C. T., Finkers, R., Gonzalez-Beltran, A., Gray, A. J. G., Groth, P., Goble, C., Grethe, J. S., Heringa, J., ’t Hoen, P. A. C., Hooft, R., Kuhn, T., Kok, R., Kok, J., Lusher, S. J., Martone, M. E., Mons, A., Packer, A. L., Persson, B., Rocca-Serra, P., Roos, M., van Schaik, R., Sansone, S.-A., Schultes, E., Sengstag, T., Slater, T., Strawn, G., Swertz, M. A., Thompson, M., van der Lei, J., van Mulligen, E., Velterop, J., Waagmeester, A., Wittenburg, P., Wolstencroft, K., Zhao, J., Mons, B., Sci. Data 2016, 3, 160018.

[6]            Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Research Practice. Code of Conduct. 2019, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923602.

Useful Links

Chemotion. https://chemotion.net/ (accessed 02/19/2023).

Chemotion ELN Documentation. https://chemotion.net/docs/eln/ (accessed 02/19/2023).

Chemotion Repository. https://www.chemotion-repository.net/welcome (accessed 02/13/2023).

Molecule Archive of the Compound Platform. https://compound-platform.eu/home (accessed 02/13/2023).