When our researchers create innovations like specialized microscopes, software, or better reagents, we work to make these new tools accessible to other scientists as widely and cost-effectively as possible. We team up with nonprofits that are just as passionate about scientific discovery as we are, and we work with commercial partners that can build on our ideas to produce new products.
We also open our doors in several other ways, from our long-standing conference program to our Advanced Imaging Center. Our goal is to make Janelia a resource for the entire scientific community as many ways as possible.
In 2022 we created the Open Science Software Initiative (OSSI), whose goal is to support scientists at Janelia to build, extend, maintain and document user-friendly and developer-friendly open-source software.
Open Science Resources
In addition to publication in scholarly journals, discussion at scientific conferences, and general exchange in the scientific community, we provide data, software, information, materials, and organisms through the following venues.
Janelia Tools and Innovations
We index our offerings on the Tools & Innovations page. There you can find:
Third-party repositories
We use repositories to share resources from our research, whether a model organism, a plasmid, a chemical compound, or novel software. Those platforms include:
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Commercial platforms
Commercial organizations can scale up and broadly distribute innovations, such as a new biosensor or imaging technology. We develop relationships and collaborate with the business world to facilitate this model. Our goal is not to generate revenue but rather maximize the impact of tools developed here by making them widely available to scientists everywhere.
Open-source licenses
We practice open-source licensing for software, data, and data dissemination. Most (but not all) of such resources developed at Janelia are licensed under the following terms:
- Janelia 3-term BSD open-source software license (this is the 3-term BSD license with "HHMI" filled in the copyright)
- Janelia open-source hardware license for designs and information
- CC BY 4.0 terms for Janelia data