It's been a while since we last previewed a release. 1.69 is about to roll off the press with some improvements to usability that people have asked for recently. First off, we've greatly improved image-editing capability. It's often the case…
From RSpace 1.69, we're pleased to announce that it's possible to run RSpace using Docker. This greatly simplifies installation and enables a running, fully featured RSpace in a few minutes. Running RSpace on Docker will be useful in many cases,…
From RSpace 1.68 we are pleased to be able to offer a new service to view DNA sequence files in collaboration with SnapGene. Currently supported file formats include: Genbank (.gb, .gbk) Fasta (.fa, .fasta) Native Snapgene files (.dna) Embl (.embl)…
We were pleased to participate in the Open Cloud 2020 Workshop that took place March 2 and 3 at Boston University. The workshop was organized and hosted by Orran Krieger and others involved in the Mass Open Cloud initiative. There…
Rory Macneil and Kris Tsvetanov were pleased to participate in the ELN Workshop at TU Darmstadt held on February 20th. It was an interesting day, with presentations from a range of researchers using ELNs, and several ELN vendors. The presentation…
This post was stimulated by Al Downie’s recent article, Research Data Management as a national service. Thanks to Al for this stimulating thought piece, and also to Andy Turner for bringing JISC's Open Research Hub into the conversation in his…
On January 21 RSpace was introduced to the Harvard research community as part of Harvard DataFest 2020. Rory Macneil overviewed RSpace and described plans to Harvard Biomedical Data Management researchers at Harvard Medical School, and Rob Day followed with an…
We are looking forward to releasing RSpace 1.65 by the end of November 2019; this release includes further incremental improvements to Chemistry support, improving links to fixed revisions, and several bug fixes. Improved chemical metadata display in view and edit…
We are looking forward to releasing 1.63 this week; this release includes incremental improvements to Chemistry support, the API and administrative pages. Drag-and-drop chemical structure files. Up till now chemists have had to import structure files one-by-one via the MarvinJS…
We are pleased to announce the development of a prototype for direct assay data upload from RSpace to ChemAxon's ChemAxon Assay. ChemAxon Assay is a modern assay data management software which forms an integral part of ChemAxon’s compound and assay data…