What are addons?

Addons are services that can be deployed to provide extended functionality for eLabFTW. They are not a strict requirement but are definitely recommended.

OpenCloning Addon

Description

OpenCloning is an application used to plan and document cloning. DNA data can be loaded from various sources, and the application is tightly integrated with eLabFTW. This means that you can easily use Resource entries in eLabFTW and their attached files to perform cloning operations. See usage documentation.

How to install

To enable OpenCloning in eLabFTW, deploy an OpenCloning container. See this example docker-compose.yml.

Then enable it in the elabftw container configuration:

# This is for the integration of the DNA Cloning tool
- USE_OPENCLONING=true
- OPENCLONING_URL=http://opencloning-plugin:8000/

Restart the elabftw container to take these changes into account (elabctl refresh).