The paper that first announced the double helical structure of DNA made Watson and Crick household names, earned them a share of a Nobel Prize and has since been cited 5,300 times. The entire article took up just a single page of A4 with one small illustration. This is a prime example of how good…
A selection of new content on F1000Research from the past week. To receive notification of all new articles, sign up for our table of contents alerts. Featured article Longevity of Atlantic Sharpnose Sharks Rhizoprionodon terraenovae and Blacknose Sharks Carcharhinus acronotus in the western North Atlantic Ocean based on tag-recapture data and direct age estimates…
This week, some literal “open science news” as open science hit the media: Open science was mentioned on Canadian TV this week, in TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin. Wall Street journal blog Pharmalot discusses issues with sharing older clinical trial data. Science Careers discusses various aspects of open science, from open notebooks to open…
(cross-posted from the F1000 Naturally Selected blog) Are you based in Oxford, UK? We’re having a meet-up there on February 10 – everyone is welcome! F1000 meet-ups are a chance for researchers to meet others working in the same city, and to talk to F1000 and F1000Research staff, or meet their local F1000 Specialists. At…
A selection of new content on F1000Research from the past week. To receive notification of all new articles, sign up for our table of contents alerts. Featured article Binding of a fluorescence reporter and a ligand to an odorant-binding protein of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti [v2; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4yp ] Gabriel…
Interesting sites Looking at open science through the prism of a social dilemma. The open science movement is itself the subject of scholarly research. Very interesting stuff! “[O]pen science can be looked at through the prism of a social dilemma: what is in the collective best interest is not necessarily in the best interest of…
Today, we are very pleased to highlight some exciting new data with regards to genome sequencing. We have just published a short research paper from the Bader lab at the University of Toronto providing the first public example of the Oxford MinION nanopore sequencer being evaluated for utility in the clinic. For those not familiar…
A selection of new content on F1000Research from the past week. To receive notification of all new articles, sign up for our table of contents alerts. Featured article Shaping the Future of Research: a perspective from junior scientists [v2; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4yc] Gary S. McDowell, Kearney T. W. Gunsalus, Drew C. MacKellar, Sarah A. Mazzilli, Vaibhav P.…
Three topics jumped out in Open Science news this week: open peer review, calls for conference posters, and FORCE2015 meeting summaries. Open Review A new version of the Open Science Peer Review Oath is now up. Based on reviewers’ and commenters’ feedback, the new version is much more succinct. Related: Daniel Katz blogged about open…
F1000Research is one of the partners of Sense About Science’s “Nuts and Bolts” peer review workshops. Below is a report from the most recent workshop, written by Anna Cupani. Anna is working on her PhD in Chemical Engineering at Imperial College, London in a joint collaboration with a Belgian research institute, VITO. She is interested…
