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This post was contributed by Deborah Sweet, Vice President of Editorial at Cell Press. Almost everyone who works in a lab struggles with reproducibility at some point. Usually it comes up when a researcher decides on a new project and begins by trying to reproduce someone else’s ...
In 2017, Lenny Teytelman, CEO of protocols.io, organized a panel to discuss reproducibility issues in research. But he realized that it wasn’t enough to discuss the age-old problem of irreproducibility in science or even to discuss potential solutions. Despite all the talk, not ...
Have you ever found yourself frustrated reading through a paper to find that there is insufficient information about which reagents were used? Unambiguous identification of a reagent is crucial for reproducibility because mistakes in this can lead to wasted time or retractions. ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger, Tea Pavlek, Product Marketing Manager at sciNote. Today, every lab has its own habits and approaches to record keeping. Top priorities in most cases include IP protection, publications and funding. If any of these three pillars ...
Last Wednesday we worked with the Harvard GSAS Science Policy Group to organize a Minisymposium on Reproducibility. The minisymposium focused on solutions to reproducibility issues in the biological sciences and featured speakers from academia, industry, nonprofits, and ...
Recently I learned that Addgene’s pLKO.1 cloning protocol is viewed around 3,000 times each month. I looked this up after trying out the new protocols.io beta platform for sharing, annotating, and storing life science protocols. Since we began sharing this protocol on the ...