Tech start-up taking industry by storm

DeSci Labs, an open science start-up  that has created a new style of scientific preprint network, has earned three prestigious awards for its groundbreaking contributions to both tech and science sectors. These include recognition for automation and data excellence, a spot among the top 20 most innovative companies of 2024, and inclusion in the top 100 startups revolutionizing their industry. These acknowledgements follow the launch of DeSci Publish in July, which introduced the first objective novelty score feature for scientific research.

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At the Lab Awards, held at Lab Innovations 2024, DeSci Labs also received the Best Automation & Data Innovation award. The Lab Awards celebrates key achievements by businesses driving scientific industries globally, with DeSci Labs being celebrated for their development of DeSci Publish.

Additionally, Business Worldwide Magazine have listed them as one of the 20 Most Innovative Companies to Watch of 2024. This award honours forward-thinking practices and companies transforming their industries.

"At DeSci Labs, our core mission is to make research both reproducible and accessible. We are thrilled and thankful to have our efforts acknowledged and to receive these prestigious awards," commented Prof. Philipp Koellinger, CEO and co-founder of DeSci Labs.

“From a technical standpoint, our platform offers the unique capability to track and preserve scientific progress, while offering authors features like novelty scores to understand and enhance their research impact. Tracking and preserving is made easy through each digital research file published onDeSci Publish, including datasets and code, getting permanently stored as its own specific version, with every file version assigned a persistent identifier."

DeSci Publish provides readers, reviewers, and collaborators with full access to every aspect of a study, promoting greater transparency and reproducibility in scientific communication. By eliminating paywalls and publication fees, it enables scientists to share their research on an open peer-to-peer network.

The platform's novelty score feature assesses the originality of scientific work based on both content and context, offering suggestions for improvement and helping streamline the traditionally subjective and time-consuming peer review process.

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