A talk by Rory Macneill from RSpace, given at the TechII Forum, Harvard Hub on November 12th 2016

1. RSpace
Where Little Data meets Big Data
In Biomedical Research
TechII Forum
Harvard i-lab
November 12 2016
Rory Macneil
rmacneil@researchspace.com

2. What problem are we solving?

3. Whose problem?
PhDs and postdocs
Principle investigators
Research institutions and biotechs
Public and private funders

4. What is RSpace?
An electronic lab notebook
‘Google Docs for science’
A research platform for labs, companies and
institutions

5. Who uses RSpace?
Labs in universities, medical schools and
research hospitals
Labs in early stage biotechs

6. What you can do with RSpace
Document experiments
Manage protocols
Manage and annotate images
Manage and link to samples
Link to files
Share data and collaborate
Protect IP
Export data to repositories, archives and
other systems

7. Data, file
links and
metadata
Data, file links and metadata
Lab
file stores
Data
Institutional
File store
Repositories
Archives
Data Data
Other systems
RSpaceRSpace
Data sharing
Data
preservation
Collaboration

8. Avoid
• Application Failure
• Lost Files
• Broken Links
An integrated research workflow with
known data and file locations,
regardless of where they are moved or
stored.
Archive and share data,
maintaining file links
Enter and organize data
Electronic lab
notebook
Coming soon @Harvard Medical School:
RSpace – Starfish integration enabling tracking of file locations

9. In sum
A ‘little data’ solution enabling collection, sharing
and management of research data in and
between labs
Through supporting linking to external files and
data export to other systems,
an interface between ‘little data’ and ‘big data’