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The Emerald Cloud Lab: Data Lessons Learned from Running a Remote-Controlled Lifesciences Laboratory

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Channel: Wolfram · 2014 · Science & Technology

5th Annual 2014 Wolfram Data Summit

Brian Frezza, Emerald Therapeutics, Co-founder

The Emerald Cloud Lab (ECL) is a system that allows researchers to remotely run life sciences experiments in a central lab over the internet. Researchers send samples to the ECL and then remotely issue commands over the internet to conduct the experiments as if they were standing in front of the instruments and handling the material themselves. This system was initially developed for Emerald's internal research team over a four-year period, and has only recently been unveiled to the larger scientific community. In shifting the control of the laboratory itself to the cloud, rapid advancements in the way we communicate the science that comes out of the laboratory have also become readily feasible. Scientific figures, for example, have been at the heart of scientific communication for ages, as they provide an elegant means of making a strong logical argument on the basis of data. As a necessity of making a clean logical argument, these figures often provide only a tightly windowed point of view to a much larger world of supporting data. The full picture is often available only in bits and scraps assembled from the laboratory notebooks of the scientists involved in conducting the experiments. The ECL has pioneered a linked data system that allows scientific figures to not only present an initial viewpoint of the data, but also give the viewer the ability to dynamically interact with and freely explore the full dataset behind the figure. In this talk, we’ll present the system and discuss some of the implications of how this form of communication can facilitate a more frictionless exchange of scientific ideas.

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The Emerald Cloud Lab: Data Lessons Learned from Running a Remote-Controlled Lifesciences Laboratory

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