Publishing date: 2017-12-01
Published on: BioBricks Foundation
summary: The Open Material Transfer Agreement (OpenMTA) is a simple, standardized legal tool that enables individuals and organizations to share their materials on an open basis.
Publishing date: 2017-12-01
Published on: AfricaOSH
summary: AfricaOSH is a gathering for everyone interested in Open Science & Hardware as a means to achieve locally adapted, culturally relevant, technologically and economically feasible production in Africa; as an alternative to traditional Intellectual Property (IP )and closed knowledge systems; and to understand its potential for development and collaboration across Africa, especially by reducing barriers to entry in education, research and manufacturing.
Publishing date: 2017-11-25
Published on: TechRadar
summary: On the face of it, Dr Bowman’s story is that he’s on a three-year project to build a general-purpose 3D-printed microscope, but his ambitions are bigger and, ultimately, he wants to create 3D-printable ‘building blocks’ that others can use to make affordable, new experimental apparatus.
Publishing date: 2017-10-31
Published on: Podtail
summary: This episode Science: Disrupt chatted to Bethan Wolfenden, the co-founder of Bento Bioworks, a biotech startup that has created a ‘laptop size laboratory’. This kit allows the user to perform simple DNA analysis and dramatically reduces the cost of the components you’d need to analyse samples, thus lowering the barrier to entry for molecular biology.
Publishing date: 2017-10-10
Published on: Podtail
summary: In this episode Science: Disrupt chatted to Kristin Ellis, the Scientific Development Lead at OpenTrons, about all things science. OpenTrons is a company that builds affordable open-source lab robots, that remove the need to perform tedious manual pipetting tasks, to free up valuable time for researchers.
Publishing date: 2017-05-31
Published on: Thingiverse
summary: This DIYbio 3D printed centrifuge is a safe and fun piece of lab equipment, if built and operated carefully .
authors: F.Lab
link to paper: http://www.
Publishing date: 2017-03-27
Published on: PLOS Blogs
summary: Read about the GOSH 2017 and catch up on some of the highlights from Santiago, Chile.
authors: Andre Maia Chagas, Max Liboiron, Jenny Molloy, Juan Manuel Garcia Arcos and Jeffrey Warren
Publishing date: 2017-03-23
Published on: Github
summary: VorteX is a graphical tool for cluster analysis of multiparametric datasets in biology, especially single-cell data. It provides multithreaded implementations of clustering algorithms, including nonparametric density-based X-shift, Hierarchical clustering, Mean-shift and K-medoids.
Publishing date: 2017-03-22
Published on: GOSH
summary: The Gathering for Open Science Hardware (GOSH) is a diverse, global community working to enhance the sharing of open, scientific technologies. In 2017 GOSH goal is to build a roadmap to bring together the people, skills and tools needed to make open science hardware ubiquitous by 2025
Publishing date: 2017-03-22
Published on: GOSH
summary: This is the right place for discussions about the 2017 Gathering for Open Science Hardware that takes place in Santiago, Chile. Read notes on sessions here.