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We have a flurry of announcements of interest to all scientists who create or use academic software as part of their research activities (so basically everyone):

• We recently strengthened our stance on software availability to better align with our Open Science principles. Now, the source code underlying any newly presented software must be made publically available and assigned an open license. We strongly encourage the use of an OSS approved licence, but will accept other open licenses including Creative Commons. Software papers describing non-open software, code and/or web tools will be rejected.

• We have switched the layout of our Software Tool Articles to a single column format, to better accommodate in-text code chunks and so avoid inadvertent line breaks disrupting the code. The first two articles showcasing the new layout are also the first papers in the recently launched Bioconductor

• We have created the RPackage channel to bring together all the articles detailing new R packages that have been, and will be, published on F1000Research.

• The GenomeSpace, GenePattern and Container Virtualization in Informatics (name tbc at Bio in Docker) channels will all fully launch before the end of the year (you can click the track button to be notified as and when new articles are added). They will join the suite of scientific software-focussed channels hosted on F1000Research, which already include Cytoscape and BioJS as well as Bioconductor and RPackage (see below for details).

Software applications are often of great value to the research community and publishing a Software Tool Article is an excellent way of giving due credit to the scientists who worked hard to create them. The F1000Research platform, with its article versioning system, support for LaTeX submissions and proper syntax highlighting, is particularly well-suited to publishing software articles.

 

Software and platform community channels on F1000Research

Bioconductor. Guest Editors: Vincent Carey (Harvard), Wolfgang Huber (EMBL), Sean Davies (NCI), Martin Morgan (Fred Hutchinson), Kasper D Hansen (John Hopkins)

BioJS. Guest Editors: Manuel Corpas (TGAC), Tatyana Goldberg (Technical University of Munich)

Container Virtualization in Informatics. Guest Editors: Amos Folarin (KCL), Stephen Newhouse (KCL) & Peter Belmann (Universität Bielefeld)

Cytoscape apps. Guest Editors: Barry Demchak (UCSD), Alexander Pico (UCSF), William Longabaugh (Institute of Systems Biology)

GenePattern. Guest Editors: Michael Reich (UCSD), Helga Thorvaldsdottir (Broad Institute)

GenomeSpace. Guest Editors: Jill Mesirov (UCSD), Michael Reich (UCSD), Anton Nekrutenko (Pennsylvania State University)

RPackage. Advisor: Scott Chamberlain (UC Berkley)