Labguru iPad app pairs up with Nature Protocols for seamless integration

You might remember us recently writing about the launch of Labguru’s iPad app, a new product from BioData, one of our portfolio companies. The application is an extension of the web service, a lightweight research management tool designed to alleviate some of the everyday pains of managing and running an academic lab.

The free iPad app builds off of and syncs with the web service, allowing researchers a means of accessing and conducting multiple experiments at the bench, and as of today, will include 20 high-quality protocols from Nature Protocols, a journal of our sister company Nature Publishing Group. The protocols – some of the most fundamental and widely used in the lab – are now fully integrated into the application and web service, as well as interactive, with Labguru building in preset timers and additional information where necessary to further enrich the user’s experience.

Each of the protocols are peer-reviewed, commissioned by the journal’s editorial team. They contain special introductory content, a list of materials needed for the experiment, a guide to anticipated results, troubleshooting and references – all of the necessary components for recreating an experiment in the lab.

“We are grateful that, with the assistance of Digital Science, Nature Publishing Group seized this opportunity to improve access to protocols and relieve researchers of some of the time-consuming tasks involved in working at the bench. We hope other publishers will follow suit,” says Jonathan Gross, Founder and Co-CEO of BioData. “The Labguru web service and iPad app prepare Nature Protocols for bench use and add interactive features, such as progress tracking and preset timers, that prevent headaches—and heartaches—when juggling multiple experiments at once. Results and notes recorded on the iPad app sync right back to the web app, so you’re always organized to easily analyze data and write papers.”
We’re thrilled to see Nature Protocols make a subset of their procedures available in Labguru, putting them in the hands of working researchers in the lab in a whole new way, and we look forward to future developments.

For more on the release, visit our Latest News section. For more on Labguru or to download the free web service or iPad app, visit www.labguru.com.

UPDATE: As of 22 March, Labguru users can now access 50 protocols from Sigma Life Science. For more information, see their press release in our Latest News section.