About Lab-Ally LLC
Scientific Data Management & the CERF Electronic Lab Notebook
Award-winning research data and document management — trusted for nearly three decades.
Award-winning research data and document management — trusted for nearly three decades.
A Proven, Award-Winning Platform
CERF (Collaborative Electronic Research Framework) is a multi-year, “Best in Show” Bio-IT World award-winning electronic lab notebook (ELN) and scientific data management system. Its origins trace back to an early-2000s project known as LabBook — a collaboration between The Ohio State University Center for Supercomputing, IBM, NERAC, the National Foundation for Cancer Research, and others. Development later passed to Rescentris Inc., and in 2014 to life-science software experts Lab-Ally LLC.
CERF was one of the very first commercial electronic lab notebooks ever created, and it has consistently been first to market with advanced features that competing systems still cannot match. Copy-cat solutions have come and gone; only CERF can claim an unbroken record of continuous use and development, and a demonstrated, decades-long track record of sustainability. For almost three decades, research organizations worldwide have trusted CERF as their cost-effective, ultra-long-term platform for research data and document management. So should you.
Built for Regulated, Collaborative Science
CERF is feature-rich and flexible. Although it was originally designed for GLP biology research, our customers today span a wide range of organizations that need to manage files and documents collaboratively under good data and record management practices (GDRP) and ALCOA principles:
CERF is purpose-built for environments where 21 CFR Part 11 and GxP compliance matter. It delivers an immutable, computer-generated audit trail, genuine PKI digital signatures, permanent version control, and granular role-based access — the kind of compliance infrastructure that generic tools such as SharePoint, Google Drive, and shared network drives were never designed to provide.
Who We Are
Lab-Ally was founded in 2013 by former Ohio State University scientists. Our team combines advisors from the original group that created CERF with talented informatics specialists, life scientists, and IT experts. (Meet our leadership.)
A Complete Solutions Company
We are a complete-solutions company. We complement our industry-leading ELN with a full range of best-of-breed products and services that support the entire research and development lifecycle. Our goal is to work in partnership with our customers to deliver and support comprehensive information systems that solve tough data-management problems, improve research efficiency, capture and protect knowledge assets, and improve the ROI of your R&D investments.
We believe in collaboration, and we are glad to work with independent validation specialists, software partners, consultants, and resellers to make sure CERF gets the job done right for your lab or organization. We also pay generous commissions for warm leads that result in a sale — so if you know an organization struggling to capture and organize its data, please feel free to introduce us.
Talk to our team about how CERF can capture and protect your organization’s knowledge assets and meet your compliance requirements.