The problem DOCLAB solves

Using the blockchain backend DOCLAB allows us to store files in a blockchain based on peer-to-peer network removing the need to buy centralized services.
The Insititute using DOCLAB just need to be a part of the network and doesn't need to pay anything to store files in a blockchain.
Provides a repository to store research documents and verify there Creadibility using our Machine Learning based Plagiarism Checker.

Challenges we ran into

We were able to implement IPFS protocol in our blockchain backend.
We could improve by implementing hashes stored in Ethereum Blockchain.
Most of the blockchain and standard technologies are not python based rather they are implemented in nodejs which created challenges in integrating our flask based application and the blockchain.