Peter Rogan is Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, where he studies the consequences of single nucleotide variation at protein binding sites in the genome or transcriptome. In this video, Rogan and his colleagues introduce their new review on ‘Interpretation of mRNA splicing mutations in genetic disease’ recently published…
The latest in Open Science news: Are you attending the Experimental Biology meeting later this month? We’ll be there, at booth 541, and we’ll have a few printed copies of our Guide to Open Science Publishing. If you missed yesterday’s Mozilla Science Lab call, the notes are on the etherpad. Mozilla Science Lab have also…
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 Subdivisions of the adult zebrafish pallium based on molecular marker analysis [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4m2] Julia Ganz, Volker Kroehne, Dorian Freudenreich, Anja Machate, Michaela Geffarth, Ingo…
Science communication is broken, let’s fix it. Vip Sitaraman writes on the Huffington Post. He offers severa; open access solutions. Monday’s Open Data Hong Kong meeting is all about open science. Right now in Rome, there’s a free Open Science meeting happening at Sapienza University. It’s on until tomorrow. Open Access Academy is running a…
We recently published the Guide to Open Science Publishing – a PDF that you can download, print, and share with your colleagues. It contains information about open access, open peer review, post-publication peer review, open data, and other aspects of open science, and it was based on a series of blog posts we published last…
Cross-posted from Naturally Selected. Written by Kinga Hosszu. Faculty of 1000 is excited to attend EB 2015 in Boston. We’ll be exhibiting in booth # 541 from March 29 –31st and we’d love to see you! If you’re attending the conference, come and say hi, learn what’s new at F1000, and score some F1000 and…
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 Referee Report Since our refereeing is open and transparent, we can feature some of the great comments we get. This is a quote from a referee report…
It was a busy week for Open Science, so these are just some of the highlights we came across. What drives academic data sharing? An article by researchers from Berlin concludes that “research policies that better incentivise data sharing are needed to improve the quality of research results and foster scientific progress” Henry Chesbrough, who…
Earlier this week I attended (and spoke at) a workshop about publication bias, organised by NC3Rs – the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement & Reduction of Animals in Research. This group is interested in the publication bias issue because using animals in research adds an extra responsibility to publish all of the results of…
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 Strain-specific and pooled genome sequences for populations of Drosophila melanogaster from three continents. [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/515] Casey M. Bergman, Penelope R. Haddrill This data note…
