Update: We have also interviewed Kenneth Lee, here. Many of you will have been following the STAP stem cell saga: In January, researchers from Japan announced in Nature that they had produced induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) by bathing somatic cells in acid. Other researchers were sceptical of these claims, and tried to reproduce…
When projects end, people move on, equipment may be re-homed, and funders may encourage the next phase of research to move in a different direction. Perhaps the data did not show the expected trend, or perhaps more work is required to fully analyse the dataset. This is a common experience in fields such as biochemistry,…
Following on from the success of our recent Diversity in Research and Reproducibility in Research tweetchats, the next instalment of the #F1000Talks running on the @F1000Research Twitter account will cover the topic of “archiving research before publication”. The Tweetchat will take place on Tuesday 6th of May at 1pm (EST), 6pm (BST). It is widely…
This is the first in a series of posts in which we go into more detail about some of the concepts that F1000Research is based on. In this first instalment, we look at open access. What is open access exactly? And what are some common misconceptions about open access? A short history of open access…
Making data widely available doesn’t always mean that it can be widely understood. In this guest blog post, Sue Malcolm considers the vast information we have about different species’ genomes, compared to how very few people know how to interpret this information. Malcolm is Faculty Member for F1000Prime, and Emeritus Professor of Molecular Genetics at…
We recently indexed an article by Shin-ichiro Kojima and Gary Borisy, about a method they developed that allows cell biologists to evaluate within single cells whether their RNA interference method is working. One of the current challenges in cell and molecular biology is to determine the biological function of genes, now that we know the…
F1000Research is hitting the road again! This time we’ll be attending the Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego from April 26th-30th. If you’re planning to attend, please visit our booth to grab a few goodies, talk science and publishing, and learn more about our journal. As part of our visit we’ll also be hosting an…
A key aim of the F1000Research approach to publishing is to clean up the peer review process – referees are still invited but this is done after publication (to remove the normal holdups in when the science is shared) and is done completely in the open (with names and referee reports published alongside the article).…
Yesterday we talked about reproducibility on Twitter, as one of Faculty of 1000’s #F1000Talks series of discussions around topics relevant to researchers. Our guests for the reproducibility discussion were Ivan Oransky, Elizabeth Iorns and Christin Chong. It was an engaging discussion, which got even more lively as other people joined in. What I found especially…
Recently, Cesar Berrios hosted a very successful tweetchat about diversity among researchers. You can read the summary of that discussion here. Tomorrow we’re hosting another #F1000Talks tweetchat. This time, I will be running the @F1000Research Twitter account to talk about reproducibility in research. Reproducibility is an ongoing concern in the life sciences. Experimental results are…
