Adam H Marblestone

BioBright

BioBright is developing a Smart Lab: a unified user interface, control system and sensor network that enhances the scientist’s workflow, allowing experimenters to compare what should have happened in an experiment with what actually happened.

For a loose intuition of why this matters, see this analysis of what is really involved in doing a PCR reaction.

news: BioBright is acquired by Dotmatics to create the Lab of the Future

Recent press releases: DARPA Sanger Beckman Philips

Beagle

Beagle is a design concept for a sharable meta-layer on top of the existing bodies of scientific knowledge.

Beagle mockups: PDF

Beagle essays/proposals: PDF PDF

news: Initial seed funding for Beagle project has been provided by a MetaKnowledge grant via the University of Chicago's Knowledge Lab and the Templeton Foundation.