eLabFTW MCP Server

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Open-source electronic lab notebook and inventory management for research teams and institutions.

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What you can do

ELabFTW is a ELN (Electronic Lab Notebook) used by universities and biotech companies to track experiments, reagents, and equipment. It serves the scientific research with a focus on data integrity and reproducibility. **What the AI can do:** - AI can summarize recent experimental protocols from the lab notebook - AI can search for specific reagents or cell lines across inventory records - AI can suggest next steps based on historical experiment outcomes - AI can extract metadata from uploaded scientific files automatically - AI can generate compliance reports for audit trails

Setup

Connect eLabFTW to Claude, Cursor or any MCP client. The first 20 requests are free.

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# eLabFTW MCP server

Open-source electronic lab notebook and inventory management for research teams and institutions.

- Category: Research Data Management
- Homepage: https://www.elabftw.net
- API: yes (REST)
- Docs: https://doc.elabftw.net/docs/api/intro

## How to connect
(Setup instructions appear here once the eLabFTW MCP is published on GeodeMCP.)