About Crucible
Crucible -- named for the melting pot used in foundries of yore – is a unified data-management and computational system at the Molecular Foundry. This is an evolving common data platform at the Foundry to enable data acquisition, annotation, access, and analysis, and to facilitate application of AI/ML methods to data collected at the Molecular Foundry by staff and users.
This data platform enables data sharing, curation, dissemination, and reuse, and in so doing, to unlock vast new opportunities for scientific discovery.
The interconnected software tools, workflows, and common data schemas to allow users and staff scientists to acquire, annotate, access, analyze, and apply AI/ML methods to these data sets.
Open Source Software
All workflows and infrastructure software are developed in the open and are available on GitHub
FAIR Data
Our goal is to enable FAIR sharing of data at our user facility
https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/
Findable
Unique Identifiers. Searchable data catalog.
Accessible
Web-based access to data and analysis workflows worldwide. Data access via Google Drive. Access controls allow user data to stay private until publication.
Interoperable
Metadata available in standard JSON formats.
Reusable
Aggregating and reusing of data possible with large collections of historical data
Crucible Team
We have a group of scientists and engineers who develop and maintain the Crucible Data Platform at the Molecular Foundry:
