A guest blog by David C. Norris, who together with Andrew Wilson recently published ‘Early-childhood housing mobility and subsequent PTSD in adolescence: a Moving to Opportunity reanalysis’ in our Preclinical Reproducibility and Robustness channel. In the 1990s, Congress mandated the ‘Moving To Opportunity for Fair Housing Demonstration’ (MTO)—a randomized, controlled social experiment. MTO…
A guest post by Manuel Corpas, Scientific Lead at Repositive, formerly of The Earlham Institute & ELIXIR-UK. We all recognise the fact that good practices when developing code are a positive thing. But when reality hits home, the rush of moving on to something else strikes or simply when the all too common procrastination thought “I…
As for many of you, our summer break is over, we are back into the swing of things, and the month ahead is packed with conferences. In this blog, we are giving you a roundup of where our F1000Research team is going and where we’ll be speaking.
It has been half a year since the Preclinical Reproducibility & Robustness (PRR) channel was launched. PRR provides a venue for researchers to publish both confirmatory and non-confirmatory studies to help improve reproducibility of results, mitigate publication bias towards positive results and to promote open dialogue between scientists. A number of invaluable replication attempts have…
Guest post by Alex Holcombe, Nicholas Brown, Patrick Goodbourn, Alexander Etz and Sebastian Geukes
In response to the widespread outbreak of the Zika virus in Brazil, some health experts published an open letter in May, calling for the upcoming Olympics to be postponed or moved. Although the World Health Organization released a statement that the risk of Zika spreading by the Olympics would be low, some athletes have dropped out.…
Today is World Hepatitis Day. This year sees the first ever World Health Organization’s Global Strategy for Viral Hepatitis, which sets a goal of eliminating viral hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030. In light of this, we spoke to Leena Menghaney and Jessica Burry of the MSF Access Campaign about the barriers to…
Following recent discussion and comments on the F1000Research publication criteria, we want to explain our reasoning for why we have developed them. We want to engage the scientific community in discussing these criteria and hear of alternative suggestions. Introduction Research articles published in traditional journals go through an opaque and often secretive process of selection…
Since the Bioconductor project began 15 years ago, it has grown into vast source of indispensable analytical tools for researchers working with high-throughput genomic data. Their open source, open development philosophy naturally aligns with our open science publishing model, and so we were thrilled to collaborate with Bioconductor to launch its own channel a year ago this month.
Publication of research takes months going through peer review before it sees the light of day. And only a tiny proportion of the work that goes into any project is ever made visible and published, as traditional journals are selective and only accept new or novel findings. Too much work is shut away in notebooks, in drawers…
