Why we chose ZK when creating Sciformation ELN Introduction Since 2006, I have worked on so-called Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) software, which is used by scientists to document experimental setups, procedures, observations and results. I am myself a chemist, i.e. an autodidact in the field of programming. My first ELN software, open enventory (OE) 1 , was written in PHP and Javascript, being part of my PhD thesis 2 . It is open source software. The development took place between 2006 and 2010, when asynchronous communication and single-page web applications came up. To deliver a user experience comparable to desktop applications, I developed a custom basis for CRUD applications where the data is loaded asynchronously through an invisible iframe. OE is still quite popular, b

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