Phoenix ELN

What Phoenix ELN is

Phoenix ELN is an open-source electronic lab notebook for organic, organometallic, and peptide chemistry. It runs on Windows and works offline without a server connection. Experiment protocols can arrange reactants, reagents, solvents, comments, products, images, and files in workflow order. As materials are added, the application supplies stoichiometric information such as equivalents and millimoles. Its built-in self-learning materials database contains nearly 200 commonly used reagents, solvents, and auxiliaries, with cross-checked molecular weights and densities. An integrated drawing editor supports organic, organometallic, peptide, and resin-bound structures. Users can search reaction substructures in local experiments; an optional in-house server extends searches to finalized experiments across an organization and supports experiment sharing and continuous backup. Protocols export to PDF compliant with PDF/A-3b, with inserted documents embedded as PDF attachments. Other listed export formats are ZIP, JPEG, PNG, and TIF. The optional server package includes an installation script for MySQL or MariaDB.

Who it suits

It suits chemistry researchers who want an offline notebook for organizing protocols and reaction structures. Teams can add the optional server for shared experiments, backups, and organization-wide searches.

Limits

The free plan is available at no cost to end users. Organization-wide reaction searches, experiment sharing and continuous backup are provided by the optional server.

Getting started

1. Visit the Phoenix ELN project website.
2. Use a Windows system, the project's target platform.
3. Use the notebook offline or without a server connection.
4. For sharing, continuous backup or organization-wide searches, set up the optional in-house server.
5. The server package includes an installation script for MySQL or MariaDB.
6. Direct questions or suggestions to the project's GitHub Issues or Discussions pages.

Verdict

Phoenix ELN combines protocol organization, stoichiometric details, reaction drawing, and local substructure search in an offline-capable Windows notebook. The server is optional, but organization-wide search, sharing, and continuous backup depend on it.