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    # General Overview
    
    
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    The openBIS platform has three primary functionalities:  
      
    
    1.  **Inventory management** of laboratory samples, materials,
        protocols, equipment.
    2.  **Laboratory notebook**, to document lab experiments.
    3.  **Data management**, to store all data related to lab experiments
        (raw, processed, analysed data, scripts, Jupyter notebooks, etc.).
    
      
    It is possible to use all functionalities or only selected ones.
    
     
    
    In the most general use-case, the **Inventory** is shared by all lab
    members, so everyone can access information about available lab
    materials and regularly used protocols. 
    
    In addition, every lab member has a personal folder in the **Lab
    notebook**, where to organise projects and experiments. This folder can
    be shared with other lab members or collaborators with openBIS access.  
    Experimental steps described in the lab notebook can be linked to
    protocols and samples stored in the inventory. Experimental steps can
    also be linked to each other.
    
    **Data** of any sort can be attached to the corresponding Experimental
    step in different ways, depending on the size.
    
    Data can be exported to data repositories, such as
    [Zenodo](https://zenodo.org/) or the [ETH Research
    Collection](https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/) (for ETHZ users
    only).  
      
    
    This allows to have the complete overview of workflows and information,
    from initial data generation to data analysis and publication.  
      
    
    The openBIS ELN interface can be accessed via a URL of this type:
    **https://openbis-xxx/openbis/webapp/eln-lims/**  
      
    
    where *openbis-xxx* is the name of the server specified in the openBIS
    configuration file, during the installation by a system admin.
    
    Updated on July 28, 2022