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Scientists separated by geographical distance face many challenges when embarking on research collaborations. In addition to the usual communication and project management difficulties, sharing data collection and analysis tasks may prove nearly impossible if the research tools used by different team members generate and analyze data in incompatible formats.
To overcome such challenges, leading scientists in the mass spectrometry in three dimensions (MS3D) community have formed the Collaboratory for MS3D (C-MS3D). The goal of C-MS3D, a partnership between researchers from Sandia; the University of California, San Francisco; and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, is to develop an expandable Web portal that will support scientific-research collaborations by enabling the sharing of research tools and data. The C-MS3D portal will offer data/metadata management, security, application integration, collaboration tools, analysis capabilities, and research tools for the biomedical community.
The portal’s capabilities will initially be designed to meet the needs of scientists using MS3D, a new method for constructing 3D protein models. As the project software develops, it will be made available as an open-source collaboration tool kit to other scientific communities.
C-MS3D is sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. The portal is built on infrastructure technologies developed by Scientific Annotation Middleware and the Collaboratory for Multi-scale Chemical Sciences, both of which were funded by the Department of Energy.
