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Earlier this month, the F1000 team (Cesar Berrios-Otero, Outreach Director, Melanie Goldate, Business Development Manager, and myself) headed to Los Angeles, CA for the 60th Annual Biophysical Society meeting. The event is the world’s largest meeting in the biophysics field, with an attendance of over 7000 international scientists. We were very excited to show the latest developments in F1000Workspace, our reference management and writing software that revolutionizes how scientists collect, write and discuss scientific literature collaboratively.

We were thrilled with all the positive feedback and the “Wow!” reactions we got at our very busy booth. Our visitors loved the Smart Citation suggestions, project-tailored article recommendations, the ability to seamlessly collect, annotate and discuss literature with collaborators, among other exciting features. Oh, and of course everyone loved the F1000 bags and T-shirts!

Many visitors to our booth, including the locals coming from UCLA and USC, were delighted to know that they could start using F1000Workspace completely free, as their host institutions subscribe to F1000. For those who are not at an institution already subscribing to F1000, we were happy to announce our options for individual subscriptions (available for only $9.99/month), and the new lab subscriptions starting as low as $300/year for 5 lab members, or $480/year for up to 10 members.

The Biophysical Society meeting was also the perfect venue to announce the next developments of F1000Workspace, which will include even better integration with Latex and Linux. These features are coming soon, so stay tuned!

On a personal note, the Biophysical society meeting was a great opportunity to catch up with many old friends from my graduate school and postdoc times and to learn that some of them are already devoted users of F1000Workspace.

Finally, we would like to congratulate the new Biophysical Society President and long-time F1000 Faculty Member Suzanne Scarlata. Professor Scarlata is also a great supporter and Advisory Board Member of our Open Science publishing platform F1000Research. Watch her talking about the great benefits of publishing with F1000Research here, here and here.

See you soon at another conference near you!

Tiago Barros is the Research and Analytics Manager at F1000.