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{{Short description|Space bioscience research platform}}
'''GeneLab''' is an [[open-access]],<ref name="Wisc-mention">{{cite web|last1=Tenenbaum|first1=David|title=UW team’s plants return to Earth after growing in space|url=http://news.wisc.edu/uw-teams-plants-return-to-earth-after-growing-in-space/|website=Wisc.edu|accessdate=25 May 2016}}</ref> collaborative analysis platform for space [[Biotechnology|bioscience]] research.<ref name="SpaceDaily">{{cite web|last1=Dueck|first1=Sandy|title=Observing how microbes adapt in a spaceflight environment|url=http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Observing_How_Microbes_Adapt_in_a_Spaceflight_Environment_999.html|website=Space Daily|accessdate=25 May 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/bitstream/handle/1805/8557/tldec2015a.pdf?sequence=1|title=Resources for Teacher Librarians, Classroom Teachers, Students, and Parents|last=Lamb|first=Annette|date=|website=|publisher=ScholarWorks|access-date=13 July 2016}}</ref> GeneLab aims to maximize the research resulting from experiments aboard the [[International Space Station]] (ISS) by collecting and providing access to data from [[Genomics|genomic]], [[Transcriptomics|transcriptomic]], [[Proteomics|proteomic]], and [[metabolomics]] studies aboard ISS.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.asbmb.org/asbmbtoday/201505/Features/Biochemist/|title=Features: A biochemist in space|website=www.asbmb.org|access-date=2016-07-13}}</ref> The Space Biosciences Division at [[NASA|NASA's]] [[Ames Research Center]] runs GeneLab.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://genelab-data.ndc.nasa.gov/genelab/projects|title=Data Repository {{!}} NASA GeneLab|website=genelab.nasa.gov|access-date=2016-07-13}}</ref>
The GeneLab project is both a science collaboration initiative to maximize the omics data collected from spaceflight and from ground simulations of microgravity and radiation experiments; and a data system effort to establish a public bioinformatics repository and collaborative analysis platform for these data.<ref name=":0" />
GeneLab houses data from spaceflight experiments and related ground-based studies conducted on a variety of organisms including: mouse, plants, fruit fly, cultured cells, nematodes, bacteria and fungi. The data are publicly available for download, and enable researchers to ask questions about how the spaceflight environment causes changes in the [[RNA]], [[DNA]] and proteins, the building blocks of life.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://phys.org/news/2014-12-worldwide-genetic-library-bric-by-bric.html|title=Building a worldwide genetic library BRIC-by-BRIC|access-date=2016-07-13}}</ref>
Because no single analysis can fully unravel the complexities of fundamental biology, GeneLab provides access to data from multiple experiments and at multiple layers of omics analysis that can be analyzed in an integrated fashion to obtain a more complete understanding of how biological systems adapt to spaceflight, leading to advances for life on Earth and beyond.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://phys.org/news/2013-08-genelab-platform-life-sciences-station.html|title=GeneLAB research platform to expand life sciences research on station|access-date=2016-07-13}}</ref>
==See also==
* [[Open science]]
==References==
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== External links ==
* {{Official|http://genelab.nasa.gov/}}
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