I-Corps: Customer Interview and Discovery for a Revolutionary Electronic Lab Notebook

I-Corps：革命性电子实验室笔记本的客户访谈和发现

• 批准号: 1632231
• 负责人: Susan Jenkins
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-04-01 至 2017-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1632231&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Customer; Interview; Discovery; Revolutionary

This I-Corps team is working to revolutionize research methodology by removing redundancies in experimentation, creating a more collaborative environment, and securing intellectual property. Research capacity will increase as more scientists have time to take on larger tasks, thereby accelerating the pace of scientific discovery. Beyond efficiency issues, a gap has also been developing between handwritten systems and digital results. This team seeks to close that gap and create a seamless digital environment containing all pertinent experimental information and analytics. A digital mergence allows scientists to quickly access research archives and avoids hours of manual searching through notebook stacks. Billions of dollars are wasted on resources, time, and organization required for paper lab notebook maintenance. The proposed system, Labii ELN, creates a digital environment to organize and simplify research. This team will take a one of a kind approach and utilize protocol templates for ceasing all repetitive behaviors, templating them the first time for easy reuse. The proposed technology will allow users to create protocol templates (root) followed by branched experimental documents (nodes), which are composed of variable fields that are altered during experimentation. This means less information is worked with and requires inputting. The connection between roots and nodes allows for novel features like Summary Analysis. The team's current commercialization plan will start with targeting wet lab researchers. On the academic side, the team will start with Universities in the bay area (Stanford University, UC Berkeley,UCSF). In industry, the team will target small and medium size biomedical and pharmaceutical companies. Once beta testing is completed and the team has added features recommended by customers, this I-Corps will seek nationwide adoption.

这个I-Corps团队正在努力通过消除实验中的冗余来彻底改变研究方法，创造一个更具协作性的环境，并保护知识产权。随着更多的科学家有时间承担更大的任务，研究能力将得到提高，从而加快科学发现的步伐。除了效率问题，手写系统和数字结果之间也存在差距。该团队旨在缩小这一差距，并创建一个包含所有相关实验信息和分析的无缝数字环境。数字化合并使科学家能够快速访问研究档案，并避免在笔记本堆栈中手动搜索数小时。数十亿美元浪费在纸质实验室笔记本维护所需的资源、时间和组织上。 拟议的系统Labii ELN创建了一个数字环境来组织和简化研究。该团队将采用独一无二的方法，并利用协议模板来停止所有重复行为，第一次将其模板化以便于重用。所提出的技术将允许用户创建协议模板（根），然后是分支实验文档（节点），这些文档由在实验期间更改的变量字段组成。这意味着需要处理和输入的信息更少。根和节点之间的连接允许新的功能，如汇总分析。 该团队目前的商业化计划将从针对湿实验室研究人员开始。在学术方面，该团队将从海湾地区的大学（斯坦福大学，加州大学伯克利分校，加州大学旧金山分校）开始。在工业方面，该团队将针对中小型生物医学和制药公司。一旦beta测试完成，该团队增加了客户推荐的功能，这个I-Corps将寻求全国范围内的采用。