It’s Friday, so take a break to catch up with what’s new in open science this week! HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND. [View the story “Here are some of the latest stories in #openscience for the week of 22nd of April, 2016” on Storify]
This guest post is contributed by Imma Subirats & Jenny Knighton, both of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Imma is the co-chair of the Research Data Alliance Interest Group on Agricultural Data (IGAD), which is the subject of this post. She is also an advisor to the OKAD channel on F1000Research,…
The quality assurance and confidence in commercially available antibodies is something researchers naturally expect. Antibodies are a mainstay reagent in laboratories globally, but despite their abundant use they’re often the source of experimental torment. Inconsistencies in antibody catalogues and batch-to-batch variability means sometimes researchers are unable to reliably provide expected results and this uncertainty ultimately…
I recently attended the EU Presidency Conference on Open Science in Amsterdam. Refreshingly (and speedily), on the day after the conference, a draft Call for Action was issued. The challenge is for the various working groups being convened by the EC to turn the Call into action. Open science is often talked about as a…
This year is the 40th anniversary of S, the ancestor of R – the open source language that has become an indispensable tool to the life sciences. It is also the 15th anniversary of Bioconductor, the software project focussing on the analysis of high-throughput genomic data, which is built on R. To mark these occasions…
It’s Friday, so treat yourself to a 10 minute break from what you are meant to be doing and catch up with all that’s been happening in the world of open science this week! HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND. [View the story “Here are some of the latest stories in #openscience for the week of 4th…
We are currently working with a wide range of life science societies and individual conferences to help them increase the visibility of their posters and slide presentations (International Society of Computational Biology, Ecological Society of America and the Organisation for Human Brain Mapping to name but a few). Some of our collaborators have their poster…
There is a sense amongst a select group of individuals that the tide is turning with respect to how and when research should be made available. Last month our founder Vitek Tracz joined a mix of academics, publishers and funders who all convened at the well-publicised ASAPBio meeting to discuss the best ways in which…
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Conference season is fast approaching so we will be highlighting some of the interesting posters and slides that are submitted to us throughout the year. With the recent global outbreaks of Ebola and Zika, there is a need to strengthen surveillance of emerging and re-emerging communicable diseases. Earlier detection of fast spreading disease-related threats, will…
