Reproducible Data (Standardized Documentation)

Here's what you want: reproducible data.

In a 2016 Nature study of 1576 researchers, 60% failed to reproduce their own findings.

If data can’t be replicated it’s not useful. So how can this all too common fate be avoided?

            STANDARDIZED DOCUMENTATION

Sound scary? It’s not. Here’s a handful of strategies from our users:

• Create a LabArchives^® folder where all Standard of Practice (SOP) documents live
• Store all supporting papers in a LabArchives^® folder
• Build standard templates for regularly repeated experiments
• Decide on a standard naming convention for notebooks, folders, pages and entries

These are just a few strategies that will help keep you and your collaborators on track. 

To learn more about LabArchives^® users achieving reproducibility check out these blog articles:

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