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Reproducibility in the Recipes of Science
- 09:25am April 6, 2016
- 1563 views
- News & Events, Essays, Interoperability
Hello SciCrunch/NIF Community! Please read below for Dr. Bandrowski's post on "Reproducibility in the Recipes of Science"Reproducibility in the Recipes of ScienceReproducibility in science is a very d...
RRID's are in the wild! Thanks to JCN and PeerJ
- 01:01pm April 11, 2014
- 2152 views
- Essays, Curation, News & Events
We believe that reproducing science starts with being able to know what "materials" were used in generating the results.Along with a truly dedicated group of volunteers from academia, government and n...
Open Science? Try Good Science.
- 07:40am April 8, 2014
- 933 views
- Essays, Curation, News & Events
If the Neuroscience Information Framework is any guide, we are certainly in an era of “Openness” in biomedical science. A search of the NIF Registry of tools, databases and projects for biomedic...
Vasculature Morphogenesis: Synopsis of three related articles by Halina Witkiewicz, Phil Oh and Jan Schnitzer
- 09:31am January 6, 2014
- 2990 views
- Essays, Data Spotlight, General information
The following is is a guest blog by Krystyna Gutowska in collaboration with the author of the articles, Dr. Witkiewicz.*All Figures can be viewed at https://openi.nlm.nih.gov/gridquery.php?q=Halina%20...
Where is your data now?
- 10:08am December 20, 2013
- 757 views
- Essays, Interoperability
An interesting report out of the UBC, there is very little data left after a few years. Vines et al. 2014 point out that after articles are published, the data is lost at a rate of about 17% per year....
How Do You Evaluate a Database
- 10:29am May 14, 2013
- 971 views
- Force11, Essays, News & Events, NIFarious Ideas
by Maryann E MartoneI was speaking with a colleague recently who, like many of us, had experienced the frustration of trying to support his on-line resources. He has assembled a comprehensive on-lin...
What is the Cerebral Cortex?
- 10:33am May 14, 2013
- 1315 views
- News & Events, Essays, Curation, Force11, Interoperability
by Anita Bandrowski,This may seem a silly question, but lets see if you are more like a fifth grader or more like me. It appears that a fifth grade class I recently interacted with can answer a questi...
Why I started blogging-a scientist's perspective
- 10:33am May 14, 2013
- 1199 views
- News & Events, Force11, Essays, NIFarious Ideas
by Maryann MartoneA recent post at the London School of Economics Social Science Impact blog on "Finding the time to blog" reminded me that I wanted to write a blog about why I started to blog. The u...
Those mean journals won't publish my methods!
- 10:34am May 14, 2013
- 703 views
- News & Events, Essays, Force11, NIFarious Ideas
The NIF team recently attended the Neuroinformatics Conference, held in Munich, Germany. The conference featured several lively discussions on the reproducibility problem in neuroscience (and neuroi...
How to bury your academic writing (or should I write that book chapter?)
- 10:34am May 14, 2013
- 974 views
- News & Events, Essays, Force11, NIFarious Ideas
A recent blog post by Dorothy Bishop on "How to bury your academic writing" came through this week that considers the question of the relative impact of book chapters vs published articles. She con...
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