Squidr is a platform to help scientists store, share and retrieve scientific studies, and thus aligns with the noble promise of science as a community of collaboration and support. Technology has played a huge part in this development, made actionable by organizations like Open Science and the development of FAIR principles.

Scientific studies have complex designs and methodologies, which must be dealt with in the upload process for data to be interoperable and reusable in the best conditions possible. Archives of scientific studies should be characterized by accommodation of all data types in a flexible framework for allowing any study design. Datasets and studies should be uniquely identified, accessible and searchable. Squidr aims to fulfill this goal for the area of experimental or observational biomedical research, but we hope it will be further developed to accommodate many other areas of research. The code and data are freely shared under the creative commons CC-BY license.

Squidr should prevent loss of data and allow new research based on all the data from previous studies. Squidr will also allow better transparency in research by making it possible to gradually open study data and protocols to a wider group of fellow scientists or even the full public.