The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Knowledgebase (KBase) program offers the most updated system for recording experimental methods, collaborating with colleagues and performing every step of biological analysis through one free, open source. This community resource enables data sharing, integration and analysis of genomic information of microbes, plants and their communities.

KBase empowers scientists across a broad range of systems biology domains that involve big data and require high-performance computing. These domains include environmental analysis, biosystems design and bioenergy. Scientists have used KBase to analyze large microbial communities, predict plant-microbe interactions and model the metabolism of microbes. The KBase Narratives associated with these experiments are available. They can be copied, re-run and extended by others.

KBase’s Narrative Interface, built on the Jupyter platform, lets users do the following:

• Upload their data

• Search and retrieve extensive public reference data

• Access data shared by others

• Share their data with others

• Select and run applications on their data

• View and analyze the results from those applications

• Record their thoughts and interpretations along with the analysis steps

Users can upload and analyze their data and share their results and commentary with other researchers, who can rerun or build upon their work, accelerating the pace of scientific progress. Source: KBase