According to a paper published today in BioData Mining, contamination of genomes from the 1000 Genome Project was found in a significant amount of raw data pulled from the project. The author William Langdon analysed the available raw data from the project (50 billion DNA measurements) and found that some of the data did not… Read more »
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There are lots of discussions about peer review happening at the moment, it seems April is a busy month. My colleagues took part in peer review debates in London and Doha discussing innovations, and on Friday I was at a Sense about Science workshop called ‘Peer Review: The Nuts & Bolts’. The event was for… Read more »
Each year the BioMed Central Research Awards recognize the best freely available open access research published within our journals. The awards acknowledge research excellence across all fields of biology and medicine and include an Open Data award, (sponsored by LabArchives) for its contribution to data sharing initiatives, and a Case Report award for the most… Read more »
Join the BioMed Central Editors on Twitter tomorrow to talk about some of the innovations taking place in peer review… Innovation may not be an adjective often associated with peer review, indeed commentators have claimed that peer review slows innovation and creativity in science. Preconceptions aside, publishers are attempting to shake things up a little, with… Read more »
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To mark today’s launch of Canine Genetics and Epidemiology, we asked the Kennel Club’s Health Information Manager, Aimée Llewellyn, to tell us more about the journal’s background and its potential impact on the wellbeing of dogs: The Kennel Club had been working to improve their educational resources for many years. In late 2011, it was… Read more »
From the DuraSpace April Newsletter Practical Action: a repository for the developing world Open Repository is delighted to announce an agreement with the Practical Action Group to build and host their institutional repository. Practical Action is a large international non-governmental organisation (NGO) that uses technology to challenge poverty in developing countries. Open Repository will… Read more »
Scientific journal publishing has undergone significant changes in the last couple of decades with the digital revolution and the rise of open access journals. However, the process of manuscript peer review remains essentially the same as it was in the age of typewriters, even if we now do it by email rather than by post…. Read more »
1Highlights of our Liveblog of #prwdebate