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Victorian College of Pharmacy adopts new E notebook system

20 February 2008

Director of CDCO, Associate Professor Susan Charman, has welcomed the new E notebook system that will lead to improved research efficiency at the College.

The Centre for Drug Candidate Optimisation (CDCO) at the Victorian College of Pharmacy is one of the first Australian education institutions to adopt an electronic lab notebook system to capture and centralise research data.

The selected electronic lab notebook (ELN), which is the same system also used by large global pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and AstraZeneca, replaces traditional paper lab notebooks, providing one integrated framework for data management throughout the Centre.

Director of the CDCO, Susan Charman, said the ELN would greatly facilitate data collection, storage and retrieval.

"The ability to easily and securely store and retrieve data will lead to improved efficiency and enhance the decision making process," Associate Professor Charman said.

The ELN was partially funded by an eResearch mini-grant awarded to the CDCO to promote the implementation of electronic solutions to everyday research issues. For more information please contact: Caroline Laverty, Principal Scientist at the CDCO.