Lab Plan Overview

The Lab plan is designed for research groups: a PI and their students, a shared lab, or a small multi-disciplinary team working on the same project. It adds a full team workspace with shared datasets and projects, on top of everything in the Researcher plan.

What Is Included

The Lab plan includes everything in the Researcher plan plus:

Team Workspace

• Shared dataset library, upload datasets once, accessible to all team members
• Shared projects, create projects that multiple team members can contribute to
• Shared pipeline library, your lab's private collection of pipelines and paradigms
• Experiment visibility, see all team members' experiment results in one place
• Activity feed, timestamped log of all dataset uploads, project changes, and experiment completions

Data Integrity

Data integrity is critical for reproducible BCI research. The Lab plan adds SHA-256 checksum verification for all shared datasets:

1. When a dataset is uploaded, BCILattice computes its SHA-256 checksum and stores it
2. When any team member downloads the dataset, BCILattice recomputes the checksum and verifies it matches
3. If checksums differ, BCILattice warns the user, the dataset may be corrupted or was modified
4. All checksums are displayed in the dataset detail view for manual verification

This ensures every team member is running experiments on the exact same data.

Collaboration Features

• Real-time collaboration, see which team members are currently active
• Pipeline sharing, share compiled MLFlow pipelines directly with team members
• Experiment comparison across members, compare your results with a colleague's run side-by-side
• Comment threads, leave comments on shared datasets and experiment results
• Notifications, get notified when a colleague uploads a dataset or completes a training run

Lab vs. Researcher vs. Free

Setting Up Your Lab Workspace

1. Upgrade to the Lab plan at bcinexus.io/pricing
2. In BCILattice, go to Teams in the left sidebar
3. Click Create Workspace, give it a name (e.g., "Neural Plasticity Lab")
4. Click Invite Members, enter email addresses of up to 4 additional team members
5. Invited members accept via email and connect to the workspace from their own BCILattice installation
6. Upload a shared dataset: Data Manager → Upload to Team Library
7. Team members can now access the shared dataset from their own machines

Team Roles & Permissions

Roles are assigned per member in Teams → Workspace Settings → Members. Owners can change any member's role at any time.

Upgrading from Researcher

Upgrading from Researcher to Lab takes effect immediately:

• You are charged the pro-rated difference for the current billing cycle
• All your existing pipelines, sessions, and cloud storage are preserved
• You can start inviting team members right away
• Existing Researcher plan sessions are automatically accessible in the team workspace

Downgrading from Lab to Researcher: takes effect at the end of the current billing cycle. Team workspace data is preserved for 90 days, export anything that exceeds Researcher limits before then.

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