Linking Labs: Interconnecting Experimental Environments
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Abstract:
We introduce the concept of LabLinking: a technology-based interconnection of experimental laboratories across institutions, disciplines, cultures, languages, and timezones - in other wordsexperiments without borders. In particular, we introduceLabLinking levels (LLL), which define the degree of tightness of empirical interconnection between labs. We describe the technological infrastructure in terms of hard- and software required for the respective LLLs and present examples of linked laboratories along with insights about the challenges and benefits. In sum, we argue that linked labs provide a unique platform for a continuous exchange between scientists and experimenters, thereby enabling a time synchronous execution of experiments performed with and by decentralized user and researchers, improving outreach and ease of subject recruitment, allowing to establish new experimental designs and to incorporate a panoply of complementary biosensors, devices, hard- and software solutions.
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Linking Labs: Interconnecting Experimental Environments (Tanja Schultz, Felix Putze, Thorsten Fehr, Moritz Meier, Celeste Mason, Florian Ahrens, Manfred Herrmann), In bioRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2021.
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@article{schultz2021lablinking,
    abstract = {We introduce the concept of LabLinking:  a technology-based interconnection of experimental laboratories across institutions, disciplines, cultures, languages, and timezones - in other wordsexperiments without borders.  In particular, we introduceLabLinking levels (LLL), which define the degree of tightness of empirical interconnection between labs.  We describe the technological infrastructure in terms of hard- and software required for the respective LLLs and present examples of linked laboratories along with insights about the challenges and benefits.  In sum, we argue that linked labs provide a unique platform for a continuous exchange between scientists and experimenters, thereby enabling a time synchronous execution of experiments performed with and by decentralized user and researchers, improving outreach and ease of subject recruitment, allowing to establish new experimental designs and to incorporate a panoply of complementary biosensors, devices, hard- and software solutions.},
    author = {Schultz, Tanja and Putze, Felix and Fehr, Thorsten and Meier, Moritz and Mason, Celeste and Ahrens, Florian and Herrmann, Manfred},
    doi = {10.1101/2021.02.09.430407 },
    keywords = {Biosignals,LabLinking},
    journal = {bioRxiv},
    publisher = {Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory},
    title = {Linking Labs:  Interconnecting Experimental Environments},
    url = {https://www.csl.uni-bremen.de/cms/images/documents/publications/schultz_lablinking_2021.pdf},
    year = {2021}
}