Our mission is to build the world’s largest public index of science research. We are doing that by creating easy-to-use communication tools for researchers that enable them to efficiently share information with their colleagues and the public on a unified platform.
Yü-ˈbi-num pronounced Yoo-b-inum. Our name was inspired by the word ubiquitous, which, you may know, means everywhere. We want people everywhere to have access to real time research so they are able to find information more efficiently.
Ubinum was created for and by scientists. From its inception we realized that time constraints are one of the major barriers to creating and updating lab websites. We also know how important a well designed, public facing presence is for research scientists and set about to develop simple tools tailored specifically to labs that would allow them to show the public the important work they are doing. You’ll see this in the way we’ve built the platform with SEO optimization to fuel the platform’s search function and developed a set of five page options to showcase your lab. We are always interested in your feedback, so if you don’t see something you think is important, please let us know!!
We are a fully remote company. You can reach us via email (see contact us page).
We will be staffing up as we grow. Please send us your resume – we would love to hear about you!
Sign up on our home page and we will send you an invite to set up a lab website.
Prepping for lab website set-up will streamline your onboarding process. We promise, your lab website can be set up in under an hour if you have at the ready:
Your homepage is your opportunity to shine a light on your lab’s overall work and thesis. The page is divided into 4 sections for narrative and image uploads. Our drag and drop feature makes it super easy to set up your home page in minutes.
The first editable section at the top of the page is your “header” where you can enter the name of your lab and the focus of your research (i.e. the header and subheader).
The second and third sections each have 2 additional fields, again a “header” and “subheader,” where you may want to bring attention to one or more projects your lab is tackling. Each of the three sections (your header and the 2 sections below it) allow you to upload images. And, we highly recommend you do add images - we believe strongly in the cliche “a picture is worth a thousand words;” so we’ve created lots of places on your lab website where you can upload images, charts, graphs, etc.
Finally the “footer” can be created under “Settings” in the “General” section. The information you enter here will populate the footer. You can also add your institutional affiliation and its logo if you like.
This feature is in the works and is a priority for our technical team.
Ubinum takes security seriously. Our cloud-based infrastructure follows industry best practices from top to bottom. User data is only available as detailed in the privacy policy. We have a completed HECVAT survey available for review by request.
Please see our privacy policy. Your website resides on the Ubinum platform, which means it’s part of a publicly searchable database. We built Ubinum so research labs and their work can be viewed on one platform in a cohesive, collective unified way.
We use cutting edge technology to make your lab website load for visitors as fast as possible. To do this, we keep a pre-built version of your site ready to show visitors at hand at all times, so it can be out of date for a few seconds after updates are made. If you made edits to your lab and then visited the site and your changes haven't shown up just yet, wait a few moments and reload to see your changes appear.
YES! Contact us at [email protected] and let us know what features you want. As one of our earliest users, your feedback is super valuable to us. We want to add what you need.
You don’t have to publish every page on your lab website, you can choose to populate the fields on a particular page but not share it with the public - thus it would be unpublished content. To help fuel collaboration among team members, we hope to create more pages under your site that you may want to share just with only your lab members, i.e. no one beyond your lab. If you have thoughts about this feature, reach out; we are interested in building tools that make sense for you!
It’s free to create your lab website; however, we will be adding al la carte features at a later date.
