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Peer Review Week 2023: Views on the future of code peer review
The significant growth of genomic data and bioinformatics tools to analyze them has led, inevitably, to discussions around reproducibility and robustness of software. For computational research, the code associated with a manuscript is arguably as important as the manuscript describing it; without the code, the hypothesis and finding of such a study cannot fully be…
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Sharing data for the benefit of children with cancer
Michal Jarmoluk /Pixabay September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, a time to recognize issues facing children with cancer. Several new developments in childhood cancer research at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and other institutions hold promise for accelerating the development of new treatments, and emphasize the importance of sharing data. FatCamera / Getty Images…
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Enriching the neuroscience data commons: An interview with the Editors-in-Chief of NeuroCommons
Gerd Altmann, Pixabay NeuroCommons is a new Open Access journal published with BMC that welcomes submissions from across the full breadth of the neurosciences. Today the journal is launching a call for papers to invite submissions that demonstrate why data sharing matters and show how data reuse is leading to new scientific insights. Read more…