It is time to re-think how biomedical applications are built and adopt new strategies that ensure quality, efficiency, robustness, correctness and reusability of software components. Dr Luis Bastiao Silva explains how engaging end-users during the development process will help to ensure that software applications fit the needs of general clinicians and practitioners.
Today marks the second and final day of London Calling 2017, a conference dedicated to the latest Nanopore genetic-sequencing technology, such as the portable MinION, and is known for its excitement. Hollydawn Murray, shares the focus for this year’s conference and summarises the technical and software updates for Nanopore technology.
The Preclinlical Reproducibility and Robustness channel facilitates the open and transparent publication and discussion of confirmatory and non-confirmatory studies in biomedical research. Alongside our open data and method policies, this space was developed as part of our continued efforts to implement publishing practices which promote reproducibility. Leonard Freedman, President of GBSI, discusses the Reproducibility2020 initiative and offers some welcome optimism.
Better integration of adult learning theory could improve practical delivery of training and education in day-to-day surgical practice.
Several articles in the Preclinical Reproducibility and Robustness channel now include interactive reanalysis interfaces that enable others to reproduce analyses within the article itself, Thomas Ingraham outlines how these work.
Food production has benefitted immensely from revolutions: the prehistoric agricultural revolution that kick-started it all; the new practices and machinery that accompanied the industrial revolution; and the green revolution of the late 20th century that saw the rapid expansion of newly designed crop varieties and agro-chemicals; all of which helped feed the world’s burgeoning populations.
There has been a lot of excitement in the Nanopore community recently from long reads to technical updates. Publishing Editor, Hollydawn Murray, gives us a run down of recent events and speaks to F1000Research author Scott Gigante who has been part of the recent excitement.
Cluster Flow is a pipeline tool developed by the SciLifeLab Swedish National Genomics Facility and the Babraham Bioinformatics Group in the UK. It has been described in a Software Tool Article on F1000Research. In this guest blog, one of the article’s authors, Phil Ewels explains what Cluster Flow is and how it will be of use to the bioinformatics community.
Michael Hanke has published three articles about Studyforrest – a neuroscience project involving the film Forrest Gump – on F1000Research. In this guest blog, he explains to us what the project is about and how it relates to the the multi-award winning film.
Our Editorial Director, Sabina Alam, discusses what is different about our peer review model. She highlights how we have put authors in control of the peer review process and ensure that all reviewers get credit for their work.
