Supercharge your research with open science meeting 1: Beginning the conversation

Written by: Lauren Wolfe -

The Coop is pleased to publish our first post in a ten-post series inspired by this Nature article on how to transition a lab to better facilitate open science! For more information on the motivation behind this series please see the series introduction post.

Meeting 1: Beginning the conversation

Motivating questions:

• What does a team workflow using open data science look like?
• What does the transition to this system look like?

Goals to keep in mind:

• Transition into open data science incrementally.
• Involve peer-to-peer learning and online communities in your plan.

Reading:

• Our path to better science in less time using open data science tools

Discussion prompts:

• How do we approach reproducibility, collaboration, and communication?

Related work at the Hutch:

Changing the way you do things is intimidating! Luckily Fred Hutch has resources to help!

• See this page from the Fred Hutchinson Biomedical Data Science Wiki for resources on training, community groups, and how to ask for help.
• Check out open source projects happening now at Fred Hutch!

Up Next

• How do we store and share our data, methods and code?