Lars Lund is February’s featured Faculty Member of the Month. He has been a Member of the Cardiovascular Disorders Faculty since April 2015. Faculty Members (FMs) are acknowledged experts invited to recommend the articles that are included in F1000Prime. They review the articles, write brief comments, and score the articles.
Looking for something interesting to read while you wait on an experiment? Treat yourself to a 10 minute break and catch up with all that’s been happening in the world of Open Science! The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub has selected its first cohort of 47 investigators and is requiring them to share their work as pre-prints.…
In this guest post, author Benjamin Haibe-Kains talks about the need for better integrative analysis frameworks to leverage the plethora of large pharmacogenomic studies available to date. He believes that preprint servers, as well as open access publishing venues with transparent pre- and post-publication peer-review, such as F1000Research, will be crucial to ensure proper dissemination of data and analysis results in the active field of cancer pharmacogenomic research.
Here at F1000Prime we are grateful for the work of our Faculty; without them we wouldn’t exist. They provide recommendations for articles along with explanations for their choices, identifying key papers week in, week out.
Our Section Heads work hard to ensure the scope of their Sections truly reflect their fields and we are pleased to announce some new appointments.
Happy Chinese New Year 2017 – The Year of the Rooster. To celebrate, we are highlighting the top 3 recommended articles by Chinese authors covering a wide range of topics in this month’s blog post as well as usual top 3 articles for the month and Hidden Jewels.
Today is World Cancer Day. In light of this, we asked Elaine Holmes, Member of our Pharmacology & Drug Discovery Faculty, to give us an overview of biomarkers of cancer. Globally, cancer is among the leading causes of death with the number of new cases projected to rise to 22 million over the next two decades. …
Recently an Opinion Article ‘Fairness in scientific publishing’ by Philippa Matthews, University of Oxford, passed peer review on F1000Research after the publication of version 2. Both versions were openly peer reviewed by three reviewers, one of whom was Gustav Nilsonne, Karolinska Institute. In this blog, both discuss what the FAIR Principles – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-usable – mean for authors, reviewers, readers and publishers.
We are delighted to announce the appointment of David Lipman, Janet Thornton and Alfonso Valenciaas our Heads of Faculty for the Bioinformatics, Biomedical Informatics & Computational Biology Faculty.
Ross Mounce is January’s Specialist of the Month. F1000 Specialists are PhD students, postdocs, clinicians and researchers who help their colleagues use F1000Prime, F1000Workspace and F1000Research, and spread the word about F1000 within their institutes.
Anja Bielinsky is January’s featured Faculty Member of the Month. She has been a Member of the Cell Biology Faculty since March 2012. Faculty Members (FMs) are acknowledged experts invited to recommend the articles that are included in F1000Prime. They review the articles, write brief comments, and score the articles.
