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             <p id = "doubleSpace" class="p-font grey-text">Two years ago the Michigan Software 2014 team began development
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              of ProtoCat 1.0. Like many innovative ideas, ProtoCat began because of a problem.
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                Describe ProtoMetrics Here
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              <a class="a-over" href="https://peerj.com/articles/148">Studies</a> have estimated
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              that only 10-25% of published scientific results are reproducible.  A 2014 survey conducted
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             <p id = "doubleSpace" class="p-font grey-text">Every respondent of the second survey indicated that they
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              would use a database to browse and download protocols, with over 85% indicating that
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              they would upload and maintain their own protocols if such a site existed. ProtoCat 3.0
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              is a free database of crowd sourced protocols designed to make existing protocols more
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              repeatable and enable more accurate computational models of biological systems. We believe
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              this can most efficiently be accomplished with a commitment to open source protocols and a
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              broader more active community of digital troubleshooters. ProtoCat 3.0 works to establish
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              such a community by giving anyone with an internet connection or smartphone access to a
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              ProtoCat 3.0 encourages the development of higher quality, more repeatable protocols by
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              allowing users to document, rate, review, and edit existing methods.
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            <p id = "doubleSpace" class="p-font grey-text">ProtoCat 4.0 is optimized for collaboration among users
 
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              and offers the best user experinece we have developed. We've added features such as threaded comments,
 
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              notifications, protocol favoriting, and a new chat system called ProtoChat in this
 
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              years verions of ProtoCat. Now users can communicate through commenting and chatting
 
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              to make improvements on existing protocols or favorite one they like to quickly relocate
 
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              it. ProtoCat also recieved a password recover system, notifications, and a better search
 
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              algorithm to search more fields of a protocol. In addition, users can now create drafts
 
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              of a protocol which allows them to start and finish a new protocol at their convienience.
 
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Revision as of 01:16, 31 October 2017

Improvements







ProtoMetrics




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ProtoChat




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