80% of Researchers Surveyed Believe Their Laboratories Are Not Run E...( 94 Researche...)

94 Researchers from 74 institutions worldwide were asked a series of questions regarding their management of research data. The survey's purpose was to learn about and prove the need for knowledge management systems in academic research. 80% of the researchers surveyed believe their labs are not run efficiently.

(PRWEB) -- In a survey commissioned by BioData, 94 researchers from 74 institutions worldwide were asked a series of questions regarding their management of research data. The survey’s purpose was to learn about and prove the need for knowledge management systems in academic research. 80% of the researchers surveyed believe their labs are not run efficiently.

William Noble, associate professor in the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington recently published “A Quick Guide to Organizing Computational Biology Projects,” an article dealing with management of data related to the bioinformatics field. When one thinks about managing laboratory data, it can be overwhelming to think of all the files, graphs, images, and results that come with every experiment. Noble explains that while organizing files and documenting progress seem mundane, “These issues are important because poor organizational choices can lead to significantly slower research progress.”

Over the past two years, BioData has worked with over 30 research groups providing them with a research management service. Dr. Noble may be referring to actual management of files and folder, but we have learned that having a systematic way of organizing results and data, promotes research an
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