Services & Toolboxes

Automated screening of scientific manuscripts can help authors to identify and fix common problems, such as failing to state whether experiments were blinding or randomised, using potentially misleading bar graphs to present continuous data, or failing to acknowledge study limitations.

The service offers methodological support and trainings on systematic review and meta-analysis of animal studies to researchers.

The BIH QUEST Center has developed a dashboard that provides an up-to-date overview of the status quo (as well as the progress) of various metrics of trustworthy and useful research at Charité and BIH. Examples of metrics shown are open sharing of data and analysis code in Charité publications and publication rates of clinical trials.

The QUEST Center's Open Data and Research Data Management team has compiled key questions and answers around creating a data management plan.

The QUEST Center develops several tools for clinical trial meta-research, e.g. a tool to help illustrate the totality of registered clinical trial activity for a drug or indication as reported on clinicaltrials.gov.

A list of resources to help you to learn and expand professional and scientific horizons and increase the quality of your research in the future.

Electronic lab notebooks (eLN) facilitate collaborations within and between team groups ("team science"). Furthermore, they increase the quality and reliability of research documentation and are thus an essential element not only in the digitisation process, but also in increasing the robustness and efficiency of research at the BIH.

Guidelines play a crucial role in the quality and transparency of research. Here you can find specific guidelines.

LabCIRS is an anonymous error reporting system developed by the Department of Experimental Neurology at the Charité together with the QUEST Center at the BIH which is available to the Charité as well as to the entire scientific community.