# Overview Lab Atlas is a simple project management platform that helps research teams manage, streamline, and preserve their research assets. Whether you are working in academia or industry, a startup or enterprise, a wet-lab or dry-lab, Lab Atlas can support you and your team. With a single click, Lab Atlas can create a workspace that includes electronic laboratory notebooks (ELN), cloud storage, source code management, and more to ensure your team's work will always be findable and accessible.

## What can Lab Atlas do? Lab Atlas is first and foremost a project & data management tool. It allows you to register projects, assign teammates, delegate work, and collect results. It also ensures that documents & files related to that work are preserved and easy-to-access for all of your organization's long history. These features include: * A managed project hierarchy with permanent, human-readable IDs. * User roles and access management to manage sensitive data. * Built-in cloud storage and integration with common cloud storage providers (eg. Microsoft SharePoint and Amazon S3), with an integrated file browser. * A rich note editor for drafting detailed documents, as well as integration with ELN providers (eg. Benchling).

## How should I use Lab Atlas? Lab Atlas functions best when you think of it as the hub around which all of your other research record-keeping tasks revolve. It's easy to jump to the conclusion that this tool just generates more busywork for already overworked scientists, but it actually provides a platform to accelerate & simplify the research process by automating-away repetitive tasks and collecting all records into a single place. To get the most benefit, make Lab Atlas the first place you go when preparing to perform a research project. - * Registering projects, studies, and assays will automatically generate storage folders & notebooks you can use to collect results. * If data resides in a system that Lab Atlas does not integrate with, you can create an external link to it to ensure the resource remains findable. * Don't use Lab Atlas as a formal electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) if you already have one, but do use the Notes feature to capture notes that otherwise don't belong anywhere else. * Create shared folders for commonly accessed resources to ensure data is accessible and available.

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