In: Literature
Additional Reads in November 2018
November 17, 2018Further commentaries, articles and blog posts worth reading: Meet Octopus, a new vision for scientific publishing Reboot undergraduate courses for reproducibility…
Read MoreMany Analysts, One Data Set: Making Transparent How Variations in Analytic Choices Affect Results
November 17, 2018In this article, 29 independent research teams used the same data set to address the same research question: whether soccer referees…
Read MoreMeta-analysis of amantadine efficacy for improving preclinical research reliability
November 17, 2018While L-DOPA remines the gold standard symptomatic treatment for Parkinson’s disease (PD), its long-term use is often associated with motor fluctuations…
Read MoreSimple changes of individual studies can improve the reproducibility of the biomedical scientific process as a whole
November 17, 2018Today, the probability of successfully publishing negative/null results in biomedical research is lower than that for positive results. For instance, negative…
Read MoreOpen Science challenges, benefits and tips in early career and beyond
November 17, 2018In well designed and adequately powered experiments null findings are often as informative as ‘positive’ results but the current incentive structure…
Read MoreReplication Study: Intestinal inflammation targets cancer-inducing activity of the microbiota
November 17, 2018As part of the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology, this report describes the attempt to replicate critical experiments from the paper “Intestinal…
Read MoreResearcher Requests for Inappropriate Analysis and Reporting: A U.S. Survey of Consulting Biostatisticians
November 17, 2018In this report, Wang and colleagues present the results of a national survey of nearly 400 consulting statisticians about requests from…
Read MoreReproducibility of Molecular Phenotypes after Long-Term Differentiation to Human iPSC-Derived Neurons: A Multi-Site Omics Study
November 17, 2018At the presentation of the ECNP Negative Data Award (see above), there was an interesting point made by one of the…
Read More“Research quality is an urgent matter”
September 10, 2018In the March 2018 issue of the newsletter, we have previously discussed that the research rigor & reproducibility discussion starts to…
Read More“How to pick an electronic laboratory notebook?
September 10, 2018Commentary about the Nature-Toolbox article by Roberta Kwok (August 6th, 2018) Laboratory Notebooks (LN) play a key role in research since…
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