Original Labstr Vision ============================ Subscription based website for research labs/institues. Provides lots of on-line tools for data analysis and processing, lab wiki's, integration with openwetware, facebook connect etc... `www.labstr.com `_ Monetization ------------------------- - RescueTime pricing model - Free if the institiution doesn't want users data, pay $20 pppy (or something) if they want access to the admin stuff and reporting layer. Could you aggregate collaboration & participation metrics, along with more traditional publication and citation metrics, into an online resume/reputation, so that scientists can feel rewarded for putting in the effort and have somewhere to point to to demonstrate the worth/impact of their online and other non-published/ing work? - Integrates BLAST type stuff (with a better interface), with image processing, simple stats, etc.. on your uploaded data. Provide cloud storage, some free, charge for more. - Simple interface to cloud computing for bench scientists - sell cloud computing power by the meg/minute/etc - amazon ecc/google app engine. Integrate bio-informatics tools with simple interfaces, so you can upload data and get it crunched on the cloud, for a few cents. Sell data storage too, to store everything - 2gig free, more on premium plans. - Keeps an on-line logbook of everything you do, your uploaded data, all analysis run, results, etc... Your on-line lab book - available anywhere. Each person has a blog/labbook which aggregates into a 'lab blog/planet'. Maybe have the aggregations be a Digg/Pligg/Lifestream/ResearchStream type thing - best practices bubble up. - Has an API so that people can integrate new analysis tools, share in the revenue from people who use your tool? - Each lab gets a lab wiki, with WordpressMU, lab calendar - an online lab in 10 mins. Tikiwiki, Google Apps. Autoregister on :doc:`antibody-swap-shop`, OpenWetware? Each lab wiki should be should be global to labstr, maybe with the ability to mark pages private (premium?) - Currently science operates on a journal-article-or-it-doesn't-count premise. There's quite a lot of stuff that goes on that just never get published, for perfectly legitimate reasons. Is there a way to enable people to get credit for and do something useful with all that stuff? Give community credit/reputation/karma for peer review, publishing data, online lab book posts, wiki edits, forum participation, etc... - Researchers have lots of other important skills, besides just publishing, which are they're not currently getting credit for. Could labstr provide a way to give credit for things like networking, outreach, collaborating, etc...? "Universities want their researchers to bring in grants, lead a group, do research, spend time with postdocs and students, teach undergrad classes, sit on committees that do governance, review grants and papers, do outreach, etc, preferably spending 10-20 hours per week on each task, resulting in a desired average working day of approximately 20 hours." - How much of this is covered by openwetware? Labstr Apps/Features ------------------- - :doc:`antibody-swap-shop` - Lots of data processing - App store/ market for both data processing apps and datasets (`http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2009/11/12/2010-predictions/ `_) - :doc:`click-counter` for GIMP - :doc:`lab-manager` - fridge inventory, labwiki, stock, links to :doc:`antibody-swap-shop` etc... - :doc:`auto-resume` - fill in your labstr profile, download a beautiful PDF CV/resume See Also -------------------- - :doc:`as-we-may-research` - `http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?p=448 `_ - `http://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Discovery-Networked-Science-ebook/dp/B005OQGZ54/ref=rin\_dp?ie=UTF8&m=AZC9TZ4UC9CFC `_ - `http://sciencestack.com/ `_ - `http://papercube.peterbergstrom.com/#Papers/Circle\_View/0/379582/9 `_ - `http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic\_lab\_notebook `_ - `http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2007/03/minireview-papers-for-os-x.ars `_ - `http://blog.nelhage.com/2010/06/lab-notebooking-for-the-software-engineer/ `_ - `http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/fourthparadigm/ `_ - `http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/06/ff\_sergeys\_search/all/1 `_ - `http://www.nature.com/news/mathematicians-aim-to-take-publishers-out-of-publishing-1.12243 `_ - `http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/03/the-future-of-the-scientific-journal-industry/ `_ Resources ---------------------- - `http://openbadges.org/en-US/ `_ Similar Sites/ inspiration ------------------------------- - `http://www.kindlingapp.com/learn-more/ `_ - `http://teambox.com/ `_ Competition/ same space/ related ----------------------------------- - `http://www.researcherid.com/ `_ - `http://www.sciencescape.org/ `_ - `http://www.researchgate.net/ `_ - `http://mendeley.com/ `_ - `http://www.quora.com/Startups-in-Science/What-are-some-startups-that-are-trying-to-accelerate-science `_ Related Sites ----------------------------------- - `http://pubget.com/ `_ - `http://academia.edu/ `_ - `http://datadryad.org/ `_ - `http://metalayer.com/dev.html `_ - `http://scholar.google.com/ `_