BioCoder #4

Community Announcements

Zappylab

As scientists, we are constantly expanding the frontiers of research and knowledge. Yet, we are also constantly rediscovering knowledge that others have not had the time to publish and improving existing methods without the ability to share the improvements with the world. Our publishing system is essentially the same as it was in the days of Mendel. The mission of ZappyLab is to change this with protocols.io—a free, up-to-date, crowdsourced protocol repository for the life sciences.

As part of this effort, to create a community for the crowdsourcing of the protocols, we have during the past two years released a panel of free mobile and web tools for researchers. This includes Bench Tools, a mobile platform (iOS and Android) for laboratory work that replaces many expensive and outdated devices in the lab. Importantly, any protocol entered into protocols.io is then available inside Bench Tools as a checklist to help in the experimental procedure.

Follow us on Twitter @zappylab for updates on http://protocols.io/ and our laboratory apps.

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