In: Literature

Therapeutic Indication
August 17, 2017

Perrin, S 2014. “Make Mouse Studies Work.” Nature 507:423. O’Collins, VE et al. 2011. “Preclinical Drug Evaluation for Combination Therapy in Acute Stroke…

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Data quality tools
August 17, 2017

Tools to improve data quality Benjamini, Y and Hochberg, Y 1995. “Controlling the False Discovery Rate: A Practical and Powerful Approach…

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Data Analysis and Statistics
August 17, 2017

This collection of articles is all about data analysis and statistics. Gelman, A 2012. “Why We (Usually) Don’t Have to Worry…

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Reproducibility and Date Robustness
August 17, 2017

These articles are dealing with the Reproducibility and Robustness of Data Collins, FS and Tabak, LA 2014. “NIH plans to enhance…

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Study Design
August 17, 2017

These articles are presenting ideas on how to improve experiments. Howells, DW et al. 2014. “Bringing rigour to translational medicine.” Nature…

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Consequences of poor data quality
August 17, 2017

These are a number of featured articles dealing with the consequences of poor data quality Pankevich, DE et al. 2014. “Improving…

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The impact factor of an open access journal does not contribute to an article’s citations
June 19, 2017

In this article, SK Chua et al. analyze the phenomenon that citations of papers are positively influenced by the journal’s impact…

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The reproducibility of research and the misinterpretation of P values
June 19, 2017

Despite decades of warnings, many areas of science still insist on labelling a result of P < 0.05 as “significant”. In…

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The ABCs of finding a good antibody: How to find a good antibody, validate it, and publish meaningful data
June 19, 2017

Finding an antibody that works for a specific application can be a difficult task. Hundreds of vendors offer millions of antibodies,…

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A Guide for the Design of Pre-clinical Studies on Sex Differences in Metabolism
June 19, 2017

In metabolic animal models, researchers often use male rodents because they show metabolic disease better than females. Thus, females are underrepresented…

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