Open Science

Open data, open methods and open access, and the infrastructure that makes shared research usable.

44 articles

BITalino: A Low Cost DIY Bio-Signal Sensor Kit

A new low cost Bio-sensor kit BITalino has been announced that seeks to ease the process of creating bio-signal based prototypes. BITalino is essentially a...

New Launch
Genome sequencing challenge

Genomics XPRIZE Becomes a Victim of Innovation

Two weeks before the competition deadline the organizers of the Archon Genomics X-Prize announced its cancellation, citing that a competition wasn’t necessary to push innovation...

Biotechnology
bio formats, glencoe software

Open Microscopy App: Unifying Biological Image Data

High resolution images are ubiquitous in biological research, making the process of analyzing, saving, sharing and publishing them pivotal to research. Images promote scientific integrity,...

Apps

What Social Network Suits Researchers?

Lets me just say it before I begin, researchers are primarily introverts, which means that a dozen or more social networks for researchers have an...

Networking