Open hardware for biofabrication, curated
60 published biofabrication and laboratory-automation builds, each read and recorded the same way: cost, licence on the design files, whether those files still resolve, and what performance the paper measures.
60 builds · 2010–2026 · 9 application areas · 57 open access · 59 full texts held
What the papers leave out
Curation records only what was published. Against the four things needed to rebuild a design — price, licence, files, a measured result — most of this corpus falls short.
- 25of 60 state no cost
- 37of 60 state no licence
- 27of 60 publish no design files
- 8of 60 report against a standard
- 0of 60 independently rebuilt
If you built one of these, you can close a gap
Nobody can curate a cost the authors never printed. For most records the missing piece is one figure, one licence identifier, or a link to the files. If you designed or built the instrument, you have it. Every value here carries a source, so a contribution needs one too.