Sharing data from clinical research: why map out the processes?

Christian Ohmann discusses his research article on sharing individual participant data from clinical trails explaining the current challenges in sharing this data and what can be done to overcome these challenges.   Sharing sensitive data Sharing detailed result data, as part of ‘open science’, is the norm in many scientific disciplines, but this has only recently…

Bioinformatics and training in data science

The decrease in cost and increase in scale of biological data production and its diverse applications has changed life science research in recent years. Applied bioinformatics skills are now essential to successfully analyse data from high-throughput ‘omics instrumentation in many fields of biology. This has resulted in a need to upskill the life science workforce,…

“Thinking about the patient first and foremost”

Cancer research

Our June Faculty Member of the Month is Maria-José Molina Garrido, a Medical Oncologist and Head of Cancer in the Elderly Consultation at the Hospital General Virgen de la Luz in Cuenca, Spain. In this Q&A, she tells us more about her speciality in Geriatric Oncology, focusing on geriatric assessment and frailty in elderly cancer patients.

It is as easy as 1, 2, 3 – just ten steps to genome assembly

Genome Assembly

In our work on the ELIXIR-EXCELERATE task ‘Capacity Building in Genome Assembly and Annotation’, we noticed a need for a document to help researchers get started with genome assembly and genome annotation. It is difficult to compare subjects in bioinformatics, but at least in my mind, genome assembly and genome annotation are among the most…

Registered Reports to support reproducibility – an author and reviewer in conversation

Late last year, we published the first Stage 1 Registered Report on F1000Research. Publishing Registered Reports is believed to increase the rigor around the scientific method, which supports reproducibility. We interviewed the lead author, Julius Emmrich, Charité, Germany and one of the article’s reviewers, Ádám Dénes, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, to get an insight into their views on this way of improving experimental design.

Removing the stress of lost files

Product Manger, João Peres, introduces one of the newest F1000Workspace features that could help alleviate some of the stress around those hair-raising moments when your files disappear. The new auto-backup feature means that you will always have a version of your work that you can always go back to.

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