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During this festive season and as the year draws to a close, we take a moment to look back to share with you the most read blogs on F1000Prime blog network, highlighting the work of our Faculty Members and their research recommendations.

We would also like to say a big thank you to all our Faculty Members for all their recommendations and contributions. We wish you all the best for the holiday season and a Happy New Year!

Bioinformatics faculty launch

In February, recognizing the development in the field of bioinformatics, and the prominence of two other closely related disciplines that are often synonymous with it, we launched our Bioinformatics, Biomedical Informatics & Computational Biology Faculty to highlight important advances to meet the challenges that translational medicine and other fields such as ecology and ethology face. Here, we introduce David Lipman, Janet Thornton and Alfonso Valencia as the Heads of Faculty.

Tiger tiger

For International Tiger Day, we highlighted the efforts and challenges faced by researchers and conservationists to combat illegal trade, eliminate demand for tiger parts, and strengthen scientific monitoring of tiger populations to ensure that these magnificent beasts will forevermore be “Tiger Tiger, burning bright, In the forests of the night.”

“Show them they were wrong to think of you as a woman before expert”

In honour of International Women in Engineering Day , Chloe-Agathe Azencott was June’s featured Faculty Member of the Month. Chloe discusses her research on artificial intelligence for precision medicine and emphasises that it is expertise not gender that matters.

Purr-fect

A DNA analysis of over 200 ancient cat remains gave us the purr-fect opportunity to paw over the recommended research to give you the cats pyjamas of feline research for our monthly Optimum F1000Prime.

“Do research that you’re passionate about”

Isabelle Mansuy, Professor in neuroepigenetics at University of Zurich featured as our September Faculty Member of the Month. Isabelle explained the importance of animal research to improve our understanding of epigenetic inheritance and as a diagnostic for trauma-related psychiatric disorders. She also passed on a key piece of advice “to do research that you’re passionate about”.