Comments on: Moving Online

By: drgunn

drgunn — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:31:13 +0000

Just wanted to drop a late comment in here about BioKM. It's a simple web-based online lab notebook started by my friend Johnathan Gross.

I've blogged protocols before and had an account on open wetware that I've rarely used. Openness is a real advantage of a wiki, but sometimes a purpose-built app just fits better out-of-the-box.

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Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:30:50 +0000

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Happy birthday Foucault’s Pendulum at Bench Press — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:40:03 +0000

[...] to solve challenging scientific problems or enhance the quality of science — whether it be electronic lab notebooks, the use of computational modeling, distributed supercomputing, or new nano-sensor [...]

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Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:20:21 +0000

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By: Rory Macneil

Rory Macneil — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:59:25 +0000

The e-CAT beta went live this morning. There is a link to Moving Online on the revamped axiope.com homepage, where you can also watch the two introductory videos, and read about e-CAT’s features, as well as the inaugural blog post to see a bit of the history and our aims for e-CAT. Feedback would be much appreciated!

By: Alethea

Alethea — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:51:53 +0000

Thanks, JCB!

By: Jean-Claude Bradley

Jean-Claude Bradley — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:38:49 +0000

As for back-ups, Wikispaces gives you the option of dumping the whole site into a zip file either as HTML or Wikitext at the click of a button.

The choice of blog or wiki depends a lot of what your requirements are. The ability to track versions is critical for us since an experiment can take some time to completely report and interpret.

Just like in a paper notebook, a table of contents is a small price to pay for quickly accessing experiments and easily done in a wiki.

For a quick look at some screenshots of what I am talking about see slides from my talk in Manchester yesterday:
http://www.slideshare.net/jcbradley/manchester-open-notebook-science-talk-presentation/

By: Rory Macneil

Rory Macneil — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:50:57 +0000

Thanks, Eric, that’s great. I will let you know when we go live.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:39:25 +0000

Sure, link it up, no problem.

By: Rory Macneil

Rory Macneil — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:04:53 +0000

Sorry about that previous comment – number 14. It was posted in error. I would be grateful if you could remove it.

Thanks.