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: The F1000Research: Ebola article collection Peter Piot Peter Piot, co-discoverer of the Ebola virus, urges researchers to submit their ebola research to F1000Research, where it can be published quickly: “F1000Research…
Want to go for an interstellar ride (sorry, not that Interstellar)? Explore the vastness of space by designing, building and managing space missions with Project Chronos. Check out Scientific Protocols (part of the Reproducibility Initiative). With over 30 pages of research protocols and discussions for each, chances are you’ll find what you’re looking for! Controlled…
Antibodies: the most frequently used research tool in the lab Antibodies are one of the most used tools in any life sciences laboratory; a survey conducted by The Scientist in 2012 revealed that 88% of laboratories use research antibodies. It is therefore not surprising that the market for antibodies and the number of companies selling…
We had quite a few online events during Open Access Week (October 20-26), and some of our discussions are archived online. If you’d like to watch and listen to our interviews about Open Access in the Global South, or read the Reddit thread about the future (or lack thereof…) of journals, you can visit the…
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 Plasmodium falciparum infection rates for some Anopheles spp. from Guinea-Bissau, West Africa [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4in] Michelle R. Sanford, Anthony J. Cornel, Catelyn C. Nieman, Joao Dinis, Clare D.…
For readers in the Washington, D.C. area: we’re coming to town and would like to invite you for a drink! F1000 Outreach Director Kinga Hosszu has more information about our meet-up on November 13 (Cross-posted from Naturally Selected). F1000 is holding its next meet-up event in Washington DC. Following on from the tradition of our…
Featured article Back to the drawing board: Re-thinking the role of GLI1 in pancreatic carcinogenesis [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4du] Tara Hogenson, Matthias Lauth, Marina Pasca diMagliano, Martin Fernandez-Zapico The protein GLI1, is a well conserved transcriptional mediator of Hedgehog (HH) signaling, and regulates multiple cellular processes such as cell fate determination, tissue patterning, proliferation…
Andres Delgado thinks some of the features of Medium would be perfectly suited to writing scientific articles. F1000Research Advisory Board member Victoria Stodden gave a seminar about reproducibility in computational science. A summary of the highlights of last week’s Open Science Days at the Max Planck Institute. Today is the first day of Mozfest, and…
Happy Open Access Week! Make sure to check out what we have planned this week, and join us later today for our Google Hangout. Featured article Commercial antibodies and their validation [v2; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4jp] JLA Voskuil This week’s featured article is about the validation of commercial antibodies. It’s part of our newly launched…
Due to a small technical issue, we missed last week’s round-up of open science news, so this one is a bit longer. It’s also a very busy time of year for open science, with both Open Access Week and MozFest just days away! Read on for this, and more news. Next week is Open Access…
