Labfolder Deployed Across Max Planck Society

By Bio-IT World Staff

October 12, 2016 | Labfolder and the Max Planck Society today announced a licensing agreement to provide up to 11,000 Max Planck scientists from all disciplines ranging from physics, chemistry, life sciences and humanities with labfolder’s laboratory data management digital platform.

Labfolder’s next generation laboratory data management tool enables users to record, integrate, and manage scientific data from different sources including tablets and devices, with simple compliance to industry standards, protocols and regulations. The company was founded in 2013 by biochemist Simon Bungers and biophysicist Florian Hauer to securely connect individuals and teams, their notes, devices, materials, and data from any source. By providing such a platform for the entire life cycle of the scientific laboratory process, labfolder speeds up research and development, facilitates data analyses and collaboration of scientists and teams on all continents.

Labfolder can be used either on a central server or on a local server, which will be installed on the premises. The labfolder digital platform is fully flexible and can be customized by users. “This agreement with the Max Planck Society, one of the most successful and distinguished scientific organizations in the world, is an important milestone for labfolder,” said Dr. Simon Bungers, CEO of labfolder in a statement. “The deal demonstrates that we reliably deliver value to scientists in all disciplines from the individual up to large organizations with thousands of scientists. We are proud that the Max Planck Society is committed to a long-term collaboration, in which together we will develop new features and services for scientists.”

“There is an enormous demand for scientists within the Max Planck Society for switching to digital lab notebooks,” said Dr. Frank Sander, General Manager of the Max Planck Digital Library, the central unit for the provision and development of information and data management services in the Max Planck Society. “We are very happy to provide our scientists via labfolder with a solution which helps them to efficiently handle their daily data management tasks.”