{"id":419,"date":"2014-07-01T00:00:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T22:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.embl.de\/?p=419"},"modified":"2024-11-14T16:23:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T15:23:14","slug":"1407_resourceful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/alumni\/1407_resourceful\/","title":{"rendered":"Resourceful alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">LabLore<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Like many researchers, Aurelio Teleman has all too frequently felt the frustration of building experiments and hypotheses on published data and conclusions that were not solid. Together with Thomas Horn, his&nbsp;solution has been to build <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lablore.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LabLore<\/a> in his spare time \u2013 a knowledge database to accompany published life science literature. \u201cThe driving force was to try to find a way for scientific work to be evaluated based not on citations, but on content,\u201d he says. Users rate papers according to reproducibility and data quality, strength and soundness of conclusions, novelty, and impact.&nbsp;\u201cIt\u2019s forward looking, providing a resource for people who want to design new projects and experiments&nbsp;based on other people\u2019s research,\u201d explains Teleman,&nbsp;\u201cAt LabLore you can see what experience people have had with a particular paper.\u201d Like any community-based endeavour, it relies on user participation: \u201cInstead of putting a paper away and forgetting about it after Journal Club, document some of the thoughts and ideas that came out of the discussion on LabLore,\u201d he encourages. Comments can be voted up or down, based on their value, and the same counts for website feedback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"vf-blockquote\"><p>It\u2019s forward looking, providing a resource for people who want to design new projects and experiments&nbsp;based on other people\u2019s research<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"vf-figure  | vf-figure--align vf-figure--align-inline-start  \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"vf-figure__image\" src=\"http:\/\/news.embl.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1407_resourceful_1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Aurelio Teleman\" class=\"wp-image-420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1407_resourceful_1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1407_resourceful_1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1407_resourceful_1.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Aurelio Teleman<\/strong>,<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>originally from Italy, was a staff scientist in the Cohen group, part of the Developmental Biology Unit at EMBL Heidelberg, from 1998 to 2007. For the past seven years he has been group leader at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ). His research interests include insulin signalling, tissue growth control and <em>Drosophila.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"vf-divider\"\/>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Life Science Network<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Alen Piljic has an ambitious and laudable goal as co-founder of the not-for-profit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifescience.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Life Science Network<\/a>: \u201cTo improve the scientific process, one issue at a time, one feature at a time.\u201d His newly developed online platform combines an expanding list of tools that aim to address challenges including peer review, protocol sharing, recruitment, and communication, through community-led contributions, recommendations and comments. The various modules are built around a comprehensive directory of life science institutes, researchers and enterprises. \u201cBehind the scenes the network is fairly complex and highly structured \u2013 triangulating location, people and content \u2013 but for the user it aims to be simple and efficient,\u201d Piljic explains. Currently in the beta stage, this free resource is a crowd-based initiative, with openness, transparency and knowledge sharing at its heart. \u201cWe built this network for the life science community,\u201d says Piljic. \u201cThe platform can be taken in any direction \u2013 if certain features aren\u2019t useful, or if users want more of one module and less of another, so it will evolve.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"vf-blockquote\"><p>Behind the scenes the network is fairly complex and highly structured, but for the user it aims to be simple and efficient<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"vf-figure  | vf-figure--align vf-figure--align-inline-start  \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"vf-figure__image\" src=\"http:\/\/news.embl.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1407_resourceful_2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Alen Piljic\" class=\"wp-image-421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1407_resourceful_2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1407_resourceful_2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1407_resourceful_2.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alen Piljic<\/strong>,&nbsp;from Croatia, joined EMBL Heidelberg in 2002 as a PhD student, going on to become a postdoc and then research scientist in the Schultz group, part of the Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit. In 2012 he moved away from the bench to launch Life Science Network gGmbH, together with EMBL alumni Aleksander Benjak and Vibor Laketa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two EMBL alumni, each developing community-led tools to support life science research<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[80,59,782,71],"embl_taxonomy":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-lab-matters","tag-alumni","tag-careers","tag-database","tag-industry"],"acf":{"article_intro":"<p>Seeds of collaboration and initiative take root in two alumni, each developing community-led tools to support life science research.<\/p>\n","related_links":[{"link_description":"Lablore","link_url":"http:\/\/www.lablore.com"},{"link_description":"Life 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