Computational Team

Motivation

In this project, we were motivated by the disconnect that we observed between biologists' planning stages and their work in the lab, and by the large amount of time the biologists spent maintaining their notebooks during lab work. Often, when biologists planned for the future, they would create a long-term plan with multiple involved steps, each building on the last, that would lead to interesting results. However, there was still lots of work to be done before the biologists could begin their actual work: they had to figure out what protocols were necessary for each step of their work, check that there were enough supplies in the stock room for those protocols, and schedule lab time with other students to ensure that no two people needed to use a machine at the same time. While iGEM teams had many creative solutions to these problems, including the use of Google Docs and spreadsheets to track timing, or Doodle polls for lab scheduling, there was no simple way for them to accomplish all of these tasks simultaneously.

Future Work:

In our next iteration of the eLabNotebook, we hope to improve the user interface on the iPad. Currently, the protocols visualization still depends on touch input. The hope is to move to gesture based input or voice commands to check off steps that have been completed during a protocol. In addition, reference material might also be considered as another integration, even something as simple as a Wikipedia link for any special terms.

Results:

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Ethical User Study practices:

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Overview: eLabNotebook

Hypothesis Forming

The eLabNotebook is an electronic lab notebook that facilitates collaborative, effective, and safe assembly of biological systems. The eLabNotebook allows users to:

• Capture multimodal data inside and outside the lab with minimal effort
• Follow a protocol in the lab while modifying and annotating steps as needed
• Access a wide variety of digital resources
• Get an overview of current activity and progress
• share physical and digital resources in real-time

The implementation of the eLabNotebook entails:

• Developing light-weight interaction techniques for capturing information
• Considering strategies for organizing and sharing heterogeneous information
• Visualizing current lab activity and progress
• Designing for multiple contexts and devices
  
  The eLabNotebook will be initially prototyped on the iPad platform.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Demo Video

Wetlab

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Results:

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Safety practices:

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