>I'm actually shocked by the lack of standardization and documentation in the wet lab There's actually quite a lot of both of these. Here's the thing, we all h

>I'm actually shocked by the lack of standardization and documentation in the wet lab There's actually quite a lot of both of these. Here's the thing, we all have protocols specific to our labs or organisms. For many of us, our protocols are based on a canonical source (Which are now usually found in Nature's Prootcols) but optimized around what we do. Working with organics is rarely as easy as it might seem (especially if you're coming from the software side of things, I somwhat did too). I've digitized most of our protocols (some dating back to the 1950's) but for the most part we all refer to hardcopies of them. Electronic protocols aren't nearly as useful as print ones, especially since they're constantly tweaked. And most of us in academia freely share our optimized protocols with eachother -- you only have to ask. There are a couple of Lab-notebook-in-the-cloud options but I've never really liked any of them. Instead I keep everything in Dropbox (for sharing with my colleagues) with versioning handled in a private git repo. I can commit experiment notes and checkin images. All of my notes are in markdown.