Collaboration Enhancement Tools
"Making collaboration efficient and organized."
A web presence for your lab,
customized just for your research.
Modern research projects involve contributing efforts from many researchers, often located large distances apart. Technologies such as email and video conferencing enable near instantaneous communication and data sharing, however, they can often lead to multiple sources and mediums for your project data. Your paper notebooks, emails, files on your workstation, files on your laptop, and more! It can be hard to organize your notes when they are spread throughout such a disparate set of sources.
Bio::Neos can help. Utilizing the popular content management system Drupal, we can build a customized solution for you that is both easy to use and flexible enough to store all of your project related data in one internet accessible location! With just a simple web browser and no advanced knowledge of HTML or programming, you can make WYSIWYG rich-text changes to your content to keep your collaborators updated on the progress of your project. Use the forum to keep a writing log of your discussions, keep a calendar of important events for your project, and get email updates as your collaborators upload new project data. And with our extensive software development experience, Bio:Neos can build modules to perform data analysis, specialized data management, data querying, and more!
Key Benefits
Essentially, we will build a website for your project with several standard features designed with scientific research in mind. In addition, we are able to create custom modules for you to extend your solution to be even more powerful. The standard features are listed below, along with some examples of types of custom modules that we could build for your project.
Standard modules
- Data Management
Organize all of your files in one place. - Forums
Keep all of your project related discussions in one place, no more search through email inboxes. - Project summaries
Easy to update with noHTMLor programming knowledge necessary. - Email Notification
Alert your collaborators when project progress changes or important events occur. - Calendar
Setup a calendar of events related to your project.
Examples of custom modules
- UCSC custom tracks
Automatically upload and translate your data from several formats into a UCSC track with a few clicks of your mouse. No programming required! - Digital forms
Collect data digitally, or translate existing paper forms into a queryable, searchable format. - The possibilities are endless!!
Pricing / Support
Pricing is determined based on the specifics of your project. Please contact us if you are interested in this service and we will gladly discuss pricing and your options, free of charge.
Our base pricing starts at $2500 which includes hosting for your website*, unlimited user accounts, a discussion forum, email notifications, and up to ten hours of content design. Additional modules and features can be added at the start of the project or at any time in the future.
* Initial setup for hosting is included in the cost, but there may be a monthly charge for any hosted accounts that reside on Bio::Neos servers.
Referral Program
If you know of someone who may benefit from the services described on this page, then please consider helping us get in touch with each other. Our Referral Program section has more details.
Where Do I Start?
Contact us to see how Bio::Neos can develop custom software to help you better perform your research.
