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The crowdsourced part is where this could really have a big impact, otherwise the technology is pretty standard. Crowdsourcing legitimate and replicable protocols is something others have tried (OpenWetWare, etc) but not quite scaled to Github like levels. Still, this seems to run into the same challenges that others before it faced.

I'll gladly pitch in some funds!

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Indeed, the effort to create a central protocol repository is at least 20 years old. No one succeeded. The key part here is the crowdsourcing. Won't happen without a crowd. And won't happen unless a busy geneticist can share with a tap of a button. That's why for two years we have been focused on giving amazing tools to researchers - build the user base. We did not even begin building protocols.io and the checklist app right away because we know how hard it is to get traction. Also, we may just be doing this at the right time - on mobile. The protocol checklist app is the key ingredient that will make this happen.

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