Constellab Labflow

Manage your laboratory inventory, document your experiments, and keep full traceability all in one place.

Labflow is an Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) application embedded in Constellab, designed to connect laboratory inventory with day-to-day experimental work.

From reagents and samples to instruments and equipment, Labflow provides a central workspace to organize laboratory resources, document protocols, record operations, and follow the complete history of your materials.

📦 Manage your laboratory inventory

Keep your laboratory materials and equipment organized in a structured catalog.

With Labflow, you can manage reagents, chemicals, samples, instruments, and equipment, while keeping track of their stock, location, supplier, and status.

🧾 Create your catalog

Item Sheets define the materials, samples, or equipment used in your laboratory.

They provide a common reference that can then be used to register the actual physical Items available in stock.

📦 Track physical Items

Each Item represents a real material, sample, bottle, or instrument available in the laboratory.

This makes it easy to keep your inventory structured while maintaining the link between your catalog and the physical resources used during laboratory work.

🔄 Record laboratory operations

Labflow allows laboratory operations to be recorded directly alongside your inventory.

You can track activities such as:

• Receiving and consuming stock
• Using instruments
• Moving or relabelling Items
• Splitting materials into several Items
• Combining multiple Items
• Diluting or concentrating solutions
• Recording custom transformations
• Discarding Items

Each operation is automatically recorded as an Activity, helping maintain a clear history of what happened to each Item.

🔗 Visualize Item Lineage

Follow the complete history of your materials and samples through an interactive lineage view.

Labflow helps you understand:

• where an Item came from;
• which materials were used to produce it;
• which transformations were performed;
• and what other Items were later produced from it.

The lineage is displayed as an interactive Item → Activity → Item graph, making even multi-step laboratory workflows easier to understand.

In just a few clicks, you can answer two essential questions:

Where did this Item come from?What did it go into?

🧩 Core Concepts

Before using the app, it helps to understand how the data model fits together.

📝 Connect protocols with inventory

Create and maintain laboratory protocols and notes directly in Labflow.

Inventory operations can be logged while documenting your work, keeping your experimental notes connected to the materials, samples, and equipment actually used in the laboratory.

This brings experimental documentation and inventory traceability together in the same workflow.

📍 Organize storage locations

Keep track of where your materials are stored and record their movements between laboratory locations.

Whenever an Item is moved, the change is recorded, helping maintain its location history over time.

🚚 Manage suppliers

Centralize your laboratory suppliers and associate them with the materials and Items they provide.

Labflow supports default suppliers at catalog level while keeping the actual supplier associated with each physical Item.

🧾 Built-in traceability

Every inventory operation performed in Labflow is recorded, creating a continuous history between:

Materials → Laboratory Activities → Resulting Items → Protocols

Actions are also attributed to the logged-in user, helping keep laboratory records clear and traceable.

✨ One connected laboratory workflow

Labflow brings together three essential parts of laboratory work:

📦 Inventory — Know what you have and where it is stored.📝 Experimental documentation — Document protocols and laboratory work.🔗 Traceability — Follow materials and samples throughout their lifecycle.

By bringing these workflows together inside Constellab, Labflow provides a simpler and more connected way to manage everyday laboratory work.

And this is just the beginning — more features are coming soon. 🚀