Sophon: an Extensible Platform for Collaborative Research

In the last few years, the web-based interactive computational environment called Jupyter notebook has been gaining more and more popularity as a platform for collaborative research and data analysis, becoming a de-facto standard among researchers. In this paper we present a first implementation of Sophon, an extensible web platform for collaborative research based on JupyterLab. Our aim is to extend the functionality of JupyterLab and improve its usability by integrating it with Django. In the Sophon project, we integrate the deployment of dockerized JupyterLab instances into a Django web server, creating an extensible, versatile and secure environment, while also being easy to use for researchers of different disciplines.