This GitHub organisation collects the open source core of the datalab project:
- datalab-org/datalab: the core server and web app.
- datalab-org/datalab-api: a Python API package that can be used to interact with datalab instances.
- datalab-org/datalab-federation: an opt-in list of federated datalab deployments.
- datalab-org/datalab-purl: a persistent link resolver for the datalab federation.
- datalab-org/datalab-app-plugin-template: a template repository for the creation of datalab plugins.
Other plugin repositories may be found under the datalab-plugin topic on GitHub.
datalab was conceived and developed by:
- Prof Joshua Bocarsly (Department of Chemistry, University of Houston)
- Dr Matthew Evans (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).
with contributions and testing performed by other members of the Grey Group at the University of Cambridge.
A full list of contributors can be found in the various GitHub repositories, for exampple datalab-org/datalab.
We are available for consultations on setting up and managing datalab deployments, as well as collaborating on or sponsoring additions of new features and techniques. Please contact Josh or Matthew on their academic emails, visit datalab industries, or join the public datalab Slack workspace.
The datalab proof-of-concept received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement 957189 (DOI: 10.3030/957189), the Battery Interface Genome - Materials Acceleration Platform (BIG-MAP), as an external stakeholder project from 2021-2022.
Since May 2024, datalab development and deployment has been supported by datalab industries ltd. and Matgenix SRL..
Since October 2025, datalab has been supported via an early career fellowship for Dr Matthew Evans provided by the Leverhulme Trust and the Isaac Newton Trust.
