Overview

Lab Website Template (LWT) is an easy-to-use, flexible website template for labs. Spend less time worrying about managing a website and citations, and more time running your lab.

https://github.com/greene-lab/lab-website-templategithub.com

This documentation always reflects the ✨ LATEST VERSION of the template.

Coming from a pre-release version of the template? See how to upgrade here.

Key Features

• 🤖 Based on Git, GitHub, and Jekyll.

• 📜 Automatically generated citations from simple identifiers (DOI, PubMed, ORCID, and many more) using Manubot. E.g. doi:1234/5678 -> title, authors, publisher, date, etc.

• 🧱 A comprehensive and flexible suite of pre-made components (building blocks) for structuring and styling your website:

  • Formatted tables, code blocks, figures, and other basic elements.

  • Citations with thumbnails and other rich details.

  • List large sets of data with flexible filters and components.

  • ...many more

• 👁️ Automatic pull request previews.

• ⚙️ Easy and automated configuration.

• 👥 Team member pages with bios, roles, and social media links.

• 🖋️ Blog posts with tags and rich content.

• 📱 Works and looks good on desktop and mobile.

• 🤝 Great documentation and support (if we do say so ourselves).

• ... and much more!