Fig. 1

Online Survey results. a Users’ origin countries breakdown. b Size of teams: a wide majority has less than 10 people. c The Model of work phases for biological experiments that we defined and proposed to users. d Users’ agreement about the proposed model of work phases. e Team composition: small labs have the same people in all the steps, larger labs have different people in different steps. f The majority of labs has different people involved in different steps, with eventually one person in charge of supervise all the steps. g Information sharing happens mostly in periodical meetings and small talks in the aisle. h Information sharing tools: the majority of people collects his/her information, and eventually share it in common folders (public or private)