It’s now been more than five months since Obokata et al. published the two “Stimulus-triggered fate conversion of somatic cells into pluripotency” or ‘STAP cell’ papers in Nature that would cause such soul-searching in the scientific community. We first covered the controversy surrounding the papers, and how it was reflected in the recommendations and dissents…
Today F1000Research is very excited to announce the launch of the Cytoscape App Collection which consists of 16 new articles and an overarching editorial. Building upon the success of the BioJS Collection published earlier this year, our latest collection is a collaboration with Cytoscape, the open source software platform for visualizing complex networks. The collection…
When your research data is no longer of use to you, And your career goals are moving you on, Before you abandon your data, Stop a while, consider, could that be wrong? Your data took effort to produce Calibrating equipment, reagents and so on Not to mention the hours spent looking at spreadsheets Just…
Authors may wish to submit Data Notes for data no longer being actively used, giving other researchers the opportunity to work on the data for novel studies. Or researchers may wish to publish a Data Note to ensure that data continues to be accessible in the future. F1000Research is currently waiving APCs for Data Notes…
Regular readers of this blog will be aware that Data Notes allow researchers to provide human readable context about their datasets in the form of a peer reviewed article. Professor Jürgen Bajorath holds the Life Science Informatics chair at the University of Bonn and has published three F1000Research Data Notes to date. We asked him…
A recent study by Timothy Vines et al investigated the availability of scientific research data from 516 papers between 2 and 22 years of age1. They report that the older a paper is, the less likely it is that the data are accessible, with odds of accessible data falling by 17% per year after publication.…
As our sister journal F1000Research publishes the full experimental results of Kenneth Lee’s attempts to replicate the notorious STAP cell research, we thought we’d chart the story so far…
Update: We have also interviewed Kenneth Lee, here. Many of you will have been following the STAP stem cell saga: In January, researchers from Japan announced in Nature that they had produced induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) by bathing somatic cells in acid. Other researchers were sceptical of these claims, and tried to reproduce…
When projects end, people move on, equipment may be re-homed, and funders may encourage the next phase of research to move in a different direction. Perhaps the data did not show the expected trend, or perhaps more work is required to fully analyse the dataset. This is a common experience in fields such as biochemistry,…
Making data widely available doesn’t always mean that it can be widely understood. In this guest blog post, Sue Malcolm considers the vast information we have about different species’ genomes, compared to how very few people know how to interpret this information. Malcolm is Faculty Member for F1000Prime, and Emeritus Professor of Molecular Genetics at…
