Scifeon: Flexible Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) & LIMS Platform for Modern Laboratories
Shape Your Lab Data Environment with Scifeon
Scifeon is a unified ELN (Electronic Lab Notebook) and LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) platform, designed to support your lab’s workflows from experiment planning to sample tracking, data capture, and reporting. Scifeon delivers a complete digital lab solution—ready to configure, extend, and validate Configuration options include user-driven web-based adjustments as well as advanced module development. Add custom tables, columns, or dashboards as needed—always within a governed, testable, and auditable environment.
The Complete ELN & LIMS Platform for Regulated and Evolving Labs
Scifeon is engineered for labs that require both adaptability and compliance. Instead of imposing standard workflows or inflexible templates, Scifeon allows you to map your actual processes—no unnecessary workarounds or manual steps. Configuration and change management are fully traceable. Every update—whether a new dashboard, table, or workflow—is version-controlled, tested, and auditable before deployment. This approach ensures your system remains aligned with regulatory standards (including GxP and ISO 17025) and supports rapid adaptation when scientific or regulatory needs change.
By integrating system configuration with automated testing and deployment, Scifeon accelerates adoption while safeguarding data integrity. As a result, you can evolve your digital lab environment confidently, without compromising on traceability or operational stability.
The Scifeon Architecture
Scifeon combines a robust data management backbone with a secure customization framework, enabling laboratories to extend functionality while maintaining compliance and system integrity. All core data operations are fully supported through mature CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) functionality. This means you can securely capture new data, review and search records, update information as needed, and manage data lifecycle with complete audit trails, all through a single, unified platform.
Enhanced template support allows you to configure system features via a controlled web interface, reducing risk and complexity.
Scifeon offers a full suite of production-ready modules—including ELN, plate and sample management, FACS and mass spectrometry data handling, instrument integration, and customizable reporting—already in use across diverse laboratory environments.
Core Platform Features:
• ELN – structured experimental workflows, SOPs, audit trail
• LIMS – samples, plates, batches, inventory
• Instrument & data integration – FACS, MS, chromatography, etc.
• Reporting & dashboards – customizable, template-based
Continuous development is focused on extending integrations, refining analytics, and keeping pace with regulatory demands, so your platform remains robust, compliant, and future-proof—without compromising traceability or operational stability.
Flexible Configuration and Extensibility
Scifeon empowers you to configure workflows, data models, and interfaces without code, ensuring compliance and simplifying validation. For advanced needs, your IT team can develop secure add-ons or integrations using standard APIs and supported technologies, all managed within our DevOps framework for full traceability.
Developing Add-ons
- No-code templates for quick configuration - Web elements via JavaScript, TypeScript, or HTML5 - Custom database tables and views - Custom data processing with JavaScript or TypeScript - Full HTTP/JSON API coverage for seamless integration
Scifeon Components
Primary System
A database; the default is Microsoft SQL Server, but we are planning to add support for Oracle and PostgreSQL A webserver / middle-tier developed using ASP.NET Core 2 An HTTP/JSON based API, with OData support for querying A single-page application front-end developed using modern JavaScript, TypeScript and HTML5 An Electron-based native client for operations that require interactions with the file-system or local processes Essentially, what you can do through the user interface, can be done via the HTTP/JSON-based API. This gives endless opportunities to integrate Scifeon into other systems, or integrate other systems into Scifeon.
System Development
A software development kit (SDK) with a complete Scifeon instance running on your local computer A cloud-hosted Git repository integrated with our testing and deployment pipeline A DevOps pipeline with support for automated testing and deployment We can host Scifeon for you in Microsoft Azure – or you can install it on-premises on your own servers. If you prefer to host your production environment on-premises, you can still benefit from running test and staging instances in the cloud and delivering updates through the DevOps pipeline. Cloud-based hosting of Scifeon is single-tenant, i.e. a separate web-server and database for each organization. Thus, you have full database access.
Technical Support
DevOps Framework
We provide a DevOps infrastructure as part of the platform. You can use GitHub or another cloud version control system for your source code. And then our DevOps framework (based on Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services) can automatically run the tests in your app and deploy to test and production systems.
Software Development Kit
You can download the Scifeon Software Development Kit (SDK) and run the entire Scifeon system, including web and database server, on your own Windows or Linux computer. Once the source code is pushed to a cloud Git repository, the DevOps system takes care of deployment to your Azure-based instance.