Our commitment to making scientific data open and accessible includes implementing accepted standards for data publication. F1000Research is very pleased to endorse the recently finalised FORCE11 data citation principles, many of which we have already implemented: Importance. F1000Research gives authors the option to publish data articles, which means that generating and sharing data can more…
The physiological effect of a gene is not just determined by its DNA sequence alone. In recent years, researchers have discovered the important role of DNA methylation: A methyl group on cytosine is an epigenetic modification that affects development, transcription, and a range of other functions. To understand how DNA methylation affects a particular phenotype,…
Last week we were very pleased to publish the first F1000Research Article Collection. The BioJS collection was initially launched with 12 open source biological visualisation components, one BioJS community article and an overarching editorial. It was very exciting for us to publish this collection based on an open source software initiative which is going from…
Today, we are pleased to announce the arrival of F1000Research Article Collections, which launches with 14 new articles based upon open source biological visualisation components, and comprises the start of the BioJS collection, guest edited by F1000Research editorial board member Manuel Corpas from The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC), UK. The articles that comprise the BioJS…
We recently marked the first anniversary of the official launch of F1000Research; it’s been an eventful year, in which we published a few hundred papers on a range of topics in biology and medicine. Now we’d like to ask our readers, authors, and referees for a few minutes to fill in a survey about F1000Research.…
Why is resource identification important? Have you ever had to look for ages to find that antibody that worked so perfectly in that study you read? Or worse, have you ever come to the conclusion that the amazing antibody did not actually label the protein it was supposed to? More and more scientists are convinced…
Just before we broke up for the holidays at the end of last year we were lucky enough to have editorial board member and F1000Research author Professor Ali Mobasheri visit us in our London office. During the visit (and after the obligatory tea and biscuits!) we managed to capture on camera a brief overview of…
We are pleased to announce that a large proportion of our articles are now visible on PubMed and PubMed Central (PMC). We have been working closely for the past few months with the National Library of Medicine (NLM) on how best to represent our articles within PubMed and PMC due to our novel publishing model.…
The Faculty of 1000 team had a great time attending the 2013 Charleston Conference. It was a pleasure to participate and meet lots of old and new faces at our vendor booth and cocktail hour. Iain H, our Outreach Director from London, flew over the pond to give two presentations. First, Iain talked about how…
Buddhika Wijerathne (left) and Geetha Rathnayake (right) have published two papers with F1000Research, so it was time to find out what made them return to us. Your most recent F1000Research paper covered the relationship between handedness and digital dermatoglyphic patterns. Can you tell us a bit about that? Buddhika Wijerathne: Our paper describes the association…
