Overview of an electronic lab notebook running in an open research cloud

1. RSpace overview
2020 Open Cloud Workshop
Rory Macneil
March 2, 2020

2. What is RSpace
 Enterprise-scale electronic lab notebook designed
for use in large research institutions
 Digital data hub for research groups in life sciences
and related disciplines
 Active data management tool that integrates with
data repositories to facilitate active data  archival
data flow

5. What makes RSpace distinctive
 Flexibility
 Connectivity/interoperability/extensibility
 Traceability
 Support for molecular biology AND chemistry
 Product development through customer relationships
o Wisconsin: original design
o Edinburgh and Goettingen: linking to file stores
o Harvard: Dataverse and chemistry

6. The Connected Approach enables
inter-operability and supports reproducibility

7. RSpace in the Harvard Data Commons:
Available March/April 2020

8. RSpace in the NERC:
2020 – 2021 pilot starting soon

9. NERC pilot:
Explore transformative potential of
electronic lab notebook being local to the data
center where storage and compute are located
 RSpace integration with R/Python notebooks to bridge
the divide between wet labs and computationalists
 Enhanced synergies with other tools (e.g. Dataverse)
 Multi-campus collaborations

10. Try it yourself!
Free fully featured version at
https://community.researchspace.com/signup