CYTO Lab Hacks: A platform for the exchange of innovations in cytometry

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1 Parnassus Flow Cytometry Core, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
2 Acute Neurology, Biogen, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
3 Cytometry Core Facility, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom
4 Department of Immunology, Caprion Biosciences, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
5 Department of Physics, King's College London, University of London, London, United Kingdom
6 SciGro, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.27944v1
Published
Accepted
Subject Areas
Cell Biology, Science Policy
Keywords
open science, free and open source software (FOSS), free and open source hardware (FOSH), network, cytometry, website
Copyright
© 2019 Bispo et al.
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Cite this article
Bispo C, Cotleur B, Hall C, Litwin V, Nedbal J, Ohlsson-Wilhelm B. 2019. CYTO Lab Hacks: A platform for the exchange of innovations in cytometry. PeerJ Preprints 7:e27944v1

Abstract

This article reports on a conference workshop conducted at CYTO 2019. This workshop centered on an online directory for non-commercial cytometry innovations called CYTO Lab Hacks. The CYTO Lab Hacks website is being developed to become a curated platform to collate and to promote cytometry related materials developed by the wider scientific community. The website will present brief summaries and links to repositories with experimental protocols, descriptions of hardware changes, document templates, software code, and other innovations. The workshop outcomes, summarized in this manuscript, cover the topics of the website functionality and user experience, organization of the volunteer task force, and understanding the needs of the cytometry community in respect to sharing innovations.

Author Comment

This is a preprint submission to PeerJ. The text of this manuscript will be incorporated into a large report on workshops that have taken place at the CYTO 2019 conference. This report will be published in Cytometry A in 2020.