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Your data, brought in — from anywhere

Switching lab notebooks shouldn't mean leaving your history behind. Bringing your existing data into NextELN — faithfully, with nothing lost — is part of what we do.

What we port

  • Other electronic lab notebooks. MediaWiki-based notebooks (with full page revision history), LabArchives exports, and generic notebook exports — pages, categories, authorship, and edit history all preserved.
  • Spreadsheets. Upload an Excel or CSV file and we build a structured, typed database automatically — column types detected, repeated values normalized into lookups.
  • Documents. Word, Markdown, and text files — old protocols, result records, and manuscripts — become clean, editable notebook pages, not dead attachments.
  • Databases. Structured records from Postgres, MySQL, Supabase, Google Sheets, and other systems, mapped into your notebook's tables.
  • Images & files. Figures, gels, microscopy, and sequencing files come across with your records.

Self-serve, or we do it for you

  • Self-serve — any plan (DIY). The built-in importers handle the common cases in minutes: spreadsheet → typed table, document → editable page, and notebook-export import. Free and individual users bring their own data in with these — point, upload, done.
  • White-glove — Team & Enterprise. For a serious migration — a decade of records across several systems, a full MediaWiki or LabArchives history, or a live database — our team does it for you: extract, map, verify, index, and hand you a searchable, AI-ready workspace. This is a paid professional service, priced fairly (cost-plus, no surprises), for teams and companies investing in next-generation R&D. Email support@nexteln.com to scope it.

Faithful, not lossy

We keep what matters: original authors, created/updated dates, full revision history, category structure, and relationships between records. And the moment your data is in, it's usable — keyword, semantic, and AI search across everything you've ever recorded.

Why trust us with it

This isn't a bolt-on feature. Excellgen has been building knowledge bases and databases since 2008 — we ran our own electronic lab notebook for nearly two decades, carried it across every generation of web technology, and rebuilt it AI-native as NextELN. We migrated our own ~18-year notebook — thousands of pages and tens of thousands of structured records, with their full history — into NextELN, then made it semantically searchable. We know how to move research data without losing it, because we've done it with our own, at scale.

Two decades of knowledge-base and database engineering, now with AI. That's who's porting your data.

Get started

Self-serve today from Admin → Import and the data/page import tools, or email support@nexteln.com to scope a larger migration. See also Why NextELN.