RSpace is an electronic lab notebook (ELN) developed as a spinout from the University of Edinburgh. It is designed to be flexible and support both molecular biology and chemistry workflows. Key features include flexibility in how users structure their work, connectivity to integrate with other tools and data sources, and traceability through unique IDs and linking of documents. The company is working with universities to enhance chemistry capabilities and integrate additional data types. A roadmap outlines upcoming sample management, Jupyter integration, and voice data ingestion features. RSpace aims to be secure, compliant, and deployable at research institutions globally.

1. RSpace overview
TU Darmstadt
Rory Macneil and Kris Tsvetanov
February 20, 2020

2. About us
 Spinout from the University of Edinburgh
 Based in Edinburgh with office in Boston
 RSpace was designed to requirements developed
with the University of Wisconsin
 Subsequent development working with researchers
at Edinburgh, Goettingen, Harvard and elsewhere

3. What makes RSpace distinctive
 Design fundamentals
o Flexibility
o Connectivity/interoperability/extensibility
o Traceability
o Support for molecular biology AND chemistry
 Customer relationships
o Support
o Development

4. 1. Flexibility
“Other ELNs force you
into an often
constrictive workflow;
RSpace provides
support for enhancing
your workflow.”
 Notebook AND/OR folders
 Documents AND/OR forms
 RSpace AND/OR other tools
 Import AND/OR link to data

5. 2. The Connected Approach enables
inter-operability and supports reproducibility

6. 2. RSpace in the Harvard Data Commons

7. 3. Traceability
 Unique IDs for documents and forms
 Linking between documents
 Exports include linked documents
 Integrations with data repositories

8. Molecular biology – SnapGene integration
 Converting between file formats
 Previewing DNA sequences
o Support for linear and circular modes
o Toggling b/n enzymes being showed or not
o Toggling b/n Open Reading Frames being showed or no
 Displaying an enzymes table with configurable options based
on the enzyme sets
 Converting a sequence to a Fasta string
 Displaying n ORF (Open Reading Frames) table with
configurable options based on open reading frames
parameters

9. Chemistry
 No modern, affordable ELN has good support for chemistry
 We are working with Harvard Department of Chemistry and
Chemical Biology to change that!
 Existing chemistry capabilities in RSpace (ChemAxon
partnership)
o Draw chemical structures
o Search structures and substructures
o Import Chemdraw files
o Import multiple compounds
o Calculations: weight, formula, mass
 Coming enhancements
o Handling reactions
o Stoichiometry
 Integrations with ChemAxon tools
o Assay data upload
o Compound registration

10. Roadmap
 Chemistry further improvements  ‘MVC’ (Q4 2020)
 Sample management (Q3 2020)
o Upgrade and port eCAT sample management to RSpace
 Jupyter integration (Nebraska) (Q3 2020)
 Support for automatic ingest of
o Additional categories of instrument data, e.g.
sequencing data (ongoing)
o Voice data (HelixAI integration) (2021)

11. Secure, Compliant and Enterprise-ready
 Security
 Compliance
 Deployment (Single sign on, AD, Communities)
 Group set up and training

12. Global Deployments
Harvard
Nebraska
Maryland
Edinburgh
Cambridge MRC Laboratory of Molecular
Biology
Geneva
KU Leuven
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
TU Delft*
Cancer Research UK Cambridge Inst.**
UiT University of the Arctic Norway**
University of Arizona**
EPFL***
German deployments
University of Goettingen
Leibniz Institute on Aging
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product
Research and Infection Biology - Hans
Knöll Institute**
University of Bonn**
TU Ilhenau***
*Successful pilot, sale pending
**Current pilot
***Pre-pilot engagement

13. Features
Content
Any file
attachments
Image
annotation/
sketches
Comments
Chemical
structures
Maths
equations /
code
View /edit
Microsoft files
in browser
Link to
filesystems
Organising
Search text or
attachments
Favourites/
shortcuts
Multiple
views: tree,
flat list,
notebook
Tags
Forward and
reverse links
Templates
and forms
Working with
others
Groups
Share work
with all or
part of a
group
Collaboration
Groups
Public links
Getting data
out
Export to PDF,
HTML, Word
or XML
Publish
datasets
direct to
repositories
API
Help and
Support
Live chat
Walkthroughs
Online
documentation
Tutorial videos
Apps
Files:
OneDrive,
Dropbox, Box,
GoogleDrive
Publications:
Mendeley
Repositories:
Figshare,
Dataverse,
Apollo
Communicati
on: Slack, MS
Teams

14. Try it yourself!
Free FULLY FEATURED version at
https://community.researchspace.com/signup
Contact us at
support@researchspace.com