In this blog, Abigail Gancz reveals how DNA preserved in the teeth of ancient humans could help us better understand past health to improve the health of modern people.
In this blog, Franco Rockel examines how PhenoApp, an open source Android app helps reduce the time spent manually processing phenotyping data.
In this blog, Balazs Bohar, reveals how Sherlock, an open source big data platform, helps streamline bioinformatics data management.
In this blog, Rebecca Grant (Head of Data & Software Publishing, F1000) discusses key aspects researchers need to consider to share sensitive human research data safely.
2022 marked another successful year for F1000Research and our authors. Here, we look back at some of our most popular research last year. 2022 was a busy year for F1000Research. Over 1,180 articles were published on the Platform by authors from 89 countries and over 800 institutions worldwide. Research articles continue to be the leading…
Is brain death a good criterion for determining death? In a new Opinion Article on F1000Research, Alberto Molina Pérez makes a case for taking a philosophy of science approach to debates around determining death. In analyzing two core concepts of death criteria— “irreversibility” and “functions”— he shows that each concept bears different and possibly conflicting…
Ana Portugal Melo discusses how existing assessment frameworks helped inform the process of performance and impact assessment of BioData.pt — a Portuguese Research Infrastructure for biological data.
In a move towards better transparency in sex and gender reporting, we are delighted to share that F1000 is now endorsing the Sex & Gender Equity in Research (SAGER) guidelines. F1000Research will now include SAGER guidance in our author guidelines and email communications and provide a checklist for authors. What are the SAGER guidelines? The…
In this blog, Jack Brook (Associate Publisher, F1000) and Tom Sinden (Publishing Executive, F1000) discuss the role publishers and researchers can play in making research more reproducible.
In this blog, Robert Waterhouse and Jerry Lanfear share how molecular sequence data collection initiatives and biodiversity research infrastructures can work together to prevent further decline of Earth’s biodiversity.