{"repo":"DIYbiosphere/sphere","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/DIYbiosphere/sphere","clone":"git clone https://github.com/DIYbiosphere/sphere.git","description":"DIYbiosphere is an open-source project to collect Do-it-Yourself Biology (DIYbio) initiatives from all over the world","language":"JavaScript","stars":113,"topics":["diybio","database","website","biohacking","community","github-page"],"license":"MIT","category":"databases-storage","readme_excerpt":"--- layout: docs title: Overview of DIYbiosphere permalink: /docs/introduction/overview/ --- :tada: Welcome to the DIYbiophere repository :tada: We really appreciate your interest in our project and we would :heart: your contributions! About The DIYbiosphere is a open-source project to connect Do-It-Yourself Biology (DIYbio) initiatives from all over the world. The goal is to have a shared and common platform that can connect people and ideas in all its possibilities and encourage the DIYbio community to work on a project together. How it works The platform functions similar to a wiki, hosting the raw files at https://github.com/DIYbiosphere/sphere and building/rendering webpages at http://sphere.diybio.org via Jekyll and Netlify Each DIYbio initiative has its own entry which are organized into eight collections: projects , startups , labs , incubators , groups , networks , events , and others . An entry is added by creating its own folder in its respective collection, and adding a text file in markdown syntax with a YAML front matter , which is then rendered into its webpage. For example, the file projects/MyDIYbioProject/MyDIYbioProject.md could look like this: The front matter includes several key: value pairs that render into different elements in the webpage. The Avocado Lab is an example entry for pedagogical purposes. You can check out the raw file raw file rendered into this webpage. See the rendered image below, and by its side the different elements of the page labe","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/DIYbiosphere","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/DIYbiosphere/sphere/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}