BMC joins the LMU Open Science Center
The interdisciplinary LMU Open Science Center (OSC) has the mission to promote and to foster open science practices at LMU and beyond. It brings together initiatives and actors at LMU, offers trainings and workshops, organizes lectures, discussion groups and other exchange platforms. It also conducts research on the topics of reproducibility and meta-science. The BMC has now joined OSC as an institutional member and looks forward to a mutually fruitful collaboration.
"The basic research conducted at the BMC is largely exploratory and thus not very standardized and particularly exposed to the problem of lack of reproducibility", says Dr. Tobias Straub, head of the Core Facility Bioinformatics and member of the Open Science working group at the BMC. To address this, the BMC has set itself the goal of implementing Open Science standards and practices across the institute. The focus is on the core topics 'Experimental Design', 'Documentation' and 'Data Management' in line with the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Re-usable). Pioneering work needs to be done in the development of guidelines and structures, as Tobias Straub points out, since there is very limited experience with corresponding practices in the field of exploratory basic biomedical research so far. Networking with the OSC is therefore particularly valuable for the BMC