![]() ![]() There are three types of lab notebooks: the bound or stitched notebook, the loose-leaf or three-ring binder notebook, and the computer-based electronic notebook. Rule 2: Select the Right Medium for Your Lab Notebook Here, I present the best practices (summarized as ten rules) for keeping a lab notebook in computational biology, for scientists pursuing exclusively “dry” research. It also serves as a legal record of ownership of the ideas and results obtained by a scientist. It is an organizational tool and memory aid, which serves as the primary record of scientific research and activity for all scientists. There seems to be a misconception in the computational biology community that a lab notebook is only useful for recording experimental protocols and their results. One of the major hurdles I face as the head of a computational biology laboratory is convincing my research team-particularly those pursuing exclusively mathematical and computational modeling-that they need to keep a laboratory notebook. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Ĭompeting interests: The author has declared that no competing interests exist. Additional funding is provided by the University of Michigan Protein Folding Disease Initiative. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are creditedįunding: This work is supported by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases grant R25 DK088752. PLoS Comput Biol 11(9):Įditor: Scott Markel, Accelrys, UNITED STATESĬopyright: © 2015 Santiago Schnell. Citation: Schnell S (2015) Ten Simple Rules for a Computational Biologist’s Laboratory Notebook.
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