GitHub enables collaborative and reproducible laboratory research

2025/02/14 by Katharine Y. Chen, Maria Toro-Moreno, Arvind R. Subramaniam · 1 voice
Computer Science · Decision Sciences · #Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems #Research Data Management Practices #Scientific Computing and Data Management

paper · doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3003029

openalex publication_date 2025/02/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04

Abstract

GitHub, a platform widely used in software development, offers a robust framework for documenting all activities of laboratory research projects. This Community Page highlights the benefits of, and provides guidance for, incorporating the GitHub ecosystem into "wet" lab workflows.

Citations

• Not just for programmers: How GitHub can accelerate collaborative and reproducible research in ecology and evolution
• GitHub as an open electronic laboratory notebook for real-time sharing of knowledge and collaboration

Discussions

• I love the idea of using GitHub (git plus platform features like issues and packages) for managing experiments. I'm also struck by this relatively short paper's repeated citation of its own preprint, [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]

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