Open science round up – September

Looking for something interesting to read while you wait on an experiment? Treat yourself to a 10 minute break and catch up with what’s been happening in the world of open science! You’ve heard of the Protein Data Bank, but have you heard of Crystalium? This new open-source database, created by Nanoengineers at the University…

There’s an app for that: Innovation in Open Data

As part of International Data Week, F1000Research joins data professionals and researchers from all disciplines in exploring how best to exploit the data revolution to improve our knowledge and benefit society through data-driven research and innovation. “The new kingmakers” Researchers, funders, universities, and publishers are often recognised as the key players in the Open Data movement. …

Open Science for Hunger and Malnutrition: the GODAN Summit

I am excited to be presenting at the first GODAN Summit in New York on 15-16th September in conjunction with the 71st Session of the UN General Assembly. GODAN (Global Open Data in Agriculture and Nutrition) is a high-level initiative to make agriculture and nutrition research data publicly available, so that the insights and knowledge they…

Congratulations to the 2016 Lasker Award winners!

Credit: Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation

We are barely into the post-summer conference and awards season and the Lasker Awards have landed! The awards recognise basic medical research, and clinical medical research respectively, acknowledging a maximum of three recipients. The 2016 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award went to William G. Kaelin, Jr., Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza for the…

Moving to opportunity? Challenging an analysis of poverty, opportunity and PTSD.

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…

Guidelines for software good practices

  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…

Conferences we are at in September

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.

Welcome new Heads of Faculty: Ecology and Genomics & Genetics

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 Heads of Faculty work hard to ensure the scope of their Faculties and Sections truly reflect their fields and…