CYTO Lab Hacks: A platform for the exchange of innovations in cytometry
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- Subject Areas
- Cell Biology, Science Policy
- Keywords
- open science, free and open source software (FOSS), free and open source hardware (FOSH), network, cytometry, website
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- © 2019 Bispo et al.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2019. CYTO Lab Hacks: A platform for the exchange of innovations in cytometry. PeerJ Preprints 7:e27944v2 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27944v2
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
We have expanded the manuscript with supplementary materials, showing a picture of a website we are discussing in the manuscript, a video showing the anticipated functionality and user interface of the future website, we intend to develop. Finally, we added the presentation slides used to support the workshop. We also added a few sentences into the introduction of the manuscript describing the developments to the initiative over the past 12 months.
Supplemental Information
Video 1: Example of a project submission process for the future CYTO Lab Hacks website
A screen capture video was created from an existing website used in the creative industry. It shows the workflow associated with a project submission that we aim to recreate in the future CYTO Lab Hacks website. The video was prepared for the workshop participants to quickly imagine our idea of the future submission process and be able to provide accurate feedback and suggestions for improvement.
Figure 1: Snapshot of the CYTO Lab Hacks website http://bit.ly/CytoLabHacks
The snapshot shows the navigation panel with four entries on the left. The entries lead to website sub-sections: (1) "About" the CYTO Lab Hacks project, (2) "Publications" related to the project (3) scheduled "Events", and (4) "CYTO Lab Hacks Submission" button to post a new innovation. The main window to the right shows three innovations currently posted on the website. The image is current as of September 2019.
Presentation for the CYTO Lab Hacks workshop at CYTO 2019
These slides guided the workshop and supported the oral presentations with a visual reference.