Table 2 Communities supporting sustainable research practices in the biosciences
Name | Description | Ref. | URL |
|---|---|---|---|
Benchling | Cloud-based platform that combines data management, protocol sharing, and collaboration tools to improve reproducibility and enable more efficient lab workflows. | ||
BioStars | Bioinformatics and computational biology forum facilitating knowledge exchange, troubleshooting, and collaborative problem solving. | ||
COMBINE | Standards for reproducible modelling across all areas of computational biology. | ||
Cultivarium Portal | AI-enhanced portal to support creation of collaborative networks that share data, discussions, and new findings (including negative results) for diverse organisms. | — | |
Data Hazards | Open community aiming to identify the hazards of using data science for interdisciplinary research | ||
FAIRsharing | Standards, repositories, and best practices for data management plans, publishing, or collaboration. | ||
FORCE11 | Community of scholars, librarians, archivists, publishers and research funders that help facilitate improved knowledge creation and sharing. | ||
GA4GH | Not-for-profit global alliance for genomics and health aiming to set standards and policies to expand genomic data use within a human rights framework. | ||
GRN | Cross-disciplinary consortium that aims to increase trustworthiness and transparency of scientific research. | — | |
ResearchGate | Social network for scientists to share publications, answer questions, and track impact metrics. | ||
SBOL | Community aiming to build standards, tools and tutorials for simplifying the representation and visualisation of genetic design information. |
