RSpace overview Harvard DataFest 2020

RSpace overview
for
Harvard DataFest
Rory Macneil and Rob Day
January 21 2020

Today
 RSpace context and overview (Rory)
 Demo (Rob Day)
 Q&A

What is RSpace?
 ‘Google Docs for Science’
 Collaborative research tool
 Electronic Lab Notebook
 Jupyter for non-computationalists
 Part of the research IT infrastructure

Which disciplines use RSpace?
 Medical research
 Biology
 Chemistry
 Biochemistry
 Biomedical and chemical engineering
 Physiology
 Psychology
 Plant science
 Materials science
 Nanotechnology
 Physics
 Astronomy
 Etc.

About us
 Spinout from the University of Edinburgh
 Designed to requirements developed with the
University of Wisconsin
 Subsequent development working with researchers
at Edinburgh, Goettingen, Harvard and elsewhere
 Design principles
o Flexibility
o Connectivity
o Traceability

1. Flexibility
“Other ELNs force you
into an often
constrictive workflow;
RSpace provides
support for enhancing
your workflow.”
 Notebook AND/OR folders
 Documents AND/OR forms
 RSpace AND/OR other tools
 Import AND/OR link to

2. The Connected Approach enables
inter-operability and supports reproducibility

3. Traceability
 Unique IDs for documents and forms
 Linking between documents
 Exports include linked documents
 Integrations with data repositories

Chemistry
 No modern, affordable ELN has good support for chemistry
 We are working with Harvard Department of Chemistry and
Chemical Biology to change that!
 Existing chemistry capabilities in RSpace (ChemAxon
partnership)
o Draw chemical structures
o Search structures and substructures
o Import Chemdraw files
o Import multiple compounds
o Calculations: weight, formula, mass
 Coming enhancements
o Handling reactions
o Stoichiometry
 Integrations with ChemAxon tools
o Assay data upload
o Compound registration

Roadmap
 SnapGene integration (in progress)
o Viewing map and sequence displays
o Adjusting map and sequence formats
o Annotating primer binding sites
o Obtaining
o A list of features
o A list of primers
o A list of restriction sites
o A list of open reading frames
o Converting between file formats
 Support for automatic ingest of
o Additional categories of instrument data, e.g. sequencing
data
o Voice data (HelixAI integration)
 Jupyter integration

Secure, Compliant and Enterprise-ready
 Security
 Compliance
 Deployment
 Group set up and training

Harvard rollout
 Late January/early February start
 Harvard Key sign in
 Help with
o Setting up groups
o Training
 Support from
o Your department
o The library (Suzanne Wones)
o Research Computing
o Research Space

Contact Merce Crosas
(mcrosas@g.harvard.edu)
to learn more/ask for an
account

RSpace overview Harvard DataFest 2020

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