In Review: a new way to open up the submissions and peer review process
A manuscript is much more than words on paper. Painstakingly drafted, fuelled by coffee over long nights, then (constructively) dismantled by colleagues,… Read more »
Amye Kenall
Journal Development Manager at BioMed Central
Latest posts by Amye Kenall (see all)
- In Review: a new way to open up the submissions and peer review process - 18th October 2018
- Developing standards for the microbial dark matter - 27th January 2015
- Making Sense of Big Data: Standards in Genomic Sciences - 8th December 2014
Developing standards for the microbial dark matter
The 17th workshop of the Genomics Standards Consortium and the Genomes to Secondary metabolites workshop
Making Sense of Big Data: Standards in Genomic Sciences
Nearly 20 years into full genome sequencing, today the cost of sequencing a single genome, once a feat of only the well-funded, is ceasing to be a matter… Read more »
Why we need badges in science
In the world of research, as with most vocational settings, there’s a lot that gets done that goes unrecognized. That unrecognized work can not only be… Read more »
MozFest: Bringing the Web to Science
In just a month’s time from now, Mozilla will be hosting their annual Mozilla Festival (“MozFest” for short), which for the 2nd year will feature a… Read more »
Announcing the Great Galaxy GigaScience (G3) Open Science Workshop
This is a guest post by Dr Nick Wong, a researcher in developmental epigenetics at The Royal Children’s Hospital in Victoria, Australia. Dr Wong is taking… Read more »
Making predictions: The future of biology
It’s hard to make predictions, especially about the Future. Yogi Berra (via Titus Brown) What will biology look like in the year 2039? In July I… Read more »
Data Notes: Dissecting the most boring buzzword ever
By far one of the biggest concerns around Open Data is not whether we have the technology to enable researchers to make their data open but whether the cultural… Read more »
National healthcare: The modern biomedical lab
In 2009 Obama devoted $19 billion to healthcare innovation—innovation that was in its first instance quite rudimentary, the very digitisation of healthcare… Read more »
Building the Brain: The Human Brain Project and the New Supercomputer
Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour, Rains from the sky a meteoric shower Of facts . . . they lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech us of our… Read more »