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It's certainly a goal to work towards. However, it's pretty difficult to build One ELN to Rule Them All given how flexible many kinds of biological experimental
by shpongled 4y ago
It's certainly a goal to work towards. However, it's pretty difficult to build One ELN to Rule Them All given how flexible many kinds of biological experimental designs are - especially when you're working on the bleeding edge.
A good first step is to require supplemental materials are published in a machine readable format (e.g. not manually thrown together Excel files that lack any kind of normalization or rational schema)
- ur-whale 4y agoBut then there are things like GPT-3 , which means stashing everything in a rigid schema isn't as hard-core of a requirement as it used to be. OTOH, facilitating: 1. access to the raw data 2. access to the metadata 3. access to the source code of whatever software was used / created to run the experiment 4. making sure everything is computer readable (i.e. not a 256x128 graph as a PNG embedded in a bloody PDF) should be a requirement for any scientific publication worth its salt.
- abraxaz 4y ago> it's pretty difficult to build One ELN to Rule Them All given how flexible many kinds of biological experimental designs are - especially when you're working on the bleeding edge. RDF is quite flexible and using a combination of domain specific ontologies like cheminf[1] and other top level ontologies like BFO[2] should allow you to capture most of the semantics. [1]: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/ontologies/cheminf https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/ontologies/cheminf [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Formal_Ontology?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Formal_Ontology?wprov=sf...