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Important research information doesn’t always start digitally. Handwritten notes, annotated figures, diagrams, and scanned documents can contain valuable details that are difficult to find once they’re stored as images. With the new Text & Handwriting Extraction feature for LabArchives ELN, Enterprise customers can extract text from uploaded images and PDFs, making that information searchable alongside the original file.

Across research and technical teams, one instinct keeps winning: move fast and stay flexible,. Call it vibecoding. It feels efficient, modern, and cheaper, because there are no new systems to stand up and no hours lost to recordkeeping. But that feeling is an illusion. You cannot vibe your way to compliance, and the moment your work has to be shared, reproduced, or audited, the shortcut reveals itself for what it always was: a deferred expense with higher interest.

Tracking individual aliquots across experiments, team members, and storage locations can quickly become difficult. New Aliquot Management in LabArchives Inventory makes it easier to create aliquots in bulk, monitor each one individually, and connect samples directly to experimental data, all while maintaining complete traceability.

Every week, your shared research resources run nonstop. Instruments hum, grants fund the work, faculty publish. The engine is running. But could you produce, today, a single structured report showing which resources drove which grants and papers over the past three years? In most institutions, not without weeks of manual work, and likely with gaps. That is not a storage problem. It is an attribution problem, and it is quietly becoming a funding risk.

Most SaaS providers treat vulnerability management as a periodic compliance exercise. FedRAMP® does not. Achieving FedRAMP authorization required LabArchives to build a continuous, deeply scrutinized vulnerability management program covering everything from code and infrastructure to containers, databases, and penetration testing. The result is a stronger security posture that benefits not only government agencies, but every LabArchives customer.

LabArchives ELN integrates with Proofig AI to help researchers analyze notebook images using automated integrity screening, enabling early detection of duplication, manipulation, and other potential issues.