The Rise of the AI Lab Notebook (AILN)
Key insights from life sciences professionals
Electronic lab notebooks may have digitized the lab, but research shows they did not make it fully intelligent.
Based on a survey of 150 life sciences professionals, our report explores how scientists are using ELNs today, where current workflows break down, and why expectations are shifting towards a new model: the AI lab notebook (AILN).
What you’ll learn:
How traditional ELNs fall short in modern lab workflows
Where lab professionals are applying AI in their lab workflows today
What scientists really need and want from a lab notebook
You cannot stop AI from arriving in the lab. Your choice is whether scientific reasoning happens in a public chatbot, or with an enterprise-grade AI co-scientist.
97%
of scientists use some form of AI to support lab work
77%
of scientists use public AI tools alongside their ELN
65%
of scientists repeat experiments because they cannot easily find previous results
97%
agree that AI-powered ELNs will make scientific work more efficient and meaningful