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    A demonstration of modularity, reuse, reproducibility, portability and scalab...

    Multi-scale computational modeling is a major branch of computational biology as evidenced by the US federal interagency Multi-Scale Modeling Consortium and major international...
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    Equity in international health research collaborations in Africa: Perceptions...

    INTRODUCTION AND METHOD: Africa is currently host to a number of international genomics research and biobanking consortia, each with a mandate to advance genomics research and...
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    Attitudes and norms affecting scientists' data reuse.

    The value of sharing scientific research data is widely appreciated, but factors that hinder or prompt the reuse of data remain poorly understood. Using the Theory of Reasoned...
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    Current Incentives for Scientists Lead to Underpowered Studies with Erroneous...

    We can regard the wider incentive structures that operate across science – such as the priority given to novel findings – as an ecosystem within which scientists strive to...
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    Changes in perceived scientific consensus shift beliefs about climate change ...

    Despite an overwhelming scientific consensus, a sizable minority of people doubt that human activity is causing climate change. Communicating the existence of a scientific...
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    Quality science from quality measurement: The role of measurement type with r...

    The quality of psychological studies is currently a major concern. The Many Labs Project (MLP) and the Open-Science-Collaboration (OSC) have collected key data on replicability...
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    Building de novo cryo-electron microscopy structures collaboratively with cit...

    With the rapid improvement of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) resolution, new computational tools are needed to assist and improve upon atomic model building and refinement...
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    Use of web-based species occurrence information systems by academics and gove...

    Web-based information systems designed to increase access to species occurrence data for use in research and natural resource decision-making have become more prevalent over the...
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    ResearchMaps.org for integrating and planning research.

    To plan experiments, a biologist needs to evaluate a growing set of empirical findings and hypothetical assertions from diverse fields that use increasingly complex techniques....
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    {ISCB}'s Initial Reaction to {The New England Journal of Medicine} Editorial ...

    The recent editorial by Drs. Longo and Drazen in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) [1] has stirred up quite a bit of controversy. As Executive Officers of the...
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    Tracking the career development of scientists in low- and middle-income count...

    The Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) co-sponsored by UNICEF, UNDP, World Bank and WHO has been supporting research capacity strengthening...
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    What is (synthetic) life? basic concepts of life in synthetic biology

    One of the central aims of synthetic biology (SB) is to better understand the mechanisms of life by trying to develop and synthesize new forms and perhaps modes of life. While...
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    bigPint: A Bioconductor visualization package that makes big data pint-sized

    Interactive data visualization is imperative in the biological sciences. The development of independent layers of interactivity has been in pursuit in the visualization...
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    Systematic Review of the use of "Magnitude-Based Inference" in Sports Science...

    Magnitude-based inference (MBI) is a controversial statistical method that has been used in hundreds of papers in sports science despite criticism from statisticians. To better...
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    Modeling of linear programming and extended TOPSIS in decision making problem...

    : Picture fuzzy sets (PFSs) are comparatively a new extension of fuzzy sets which describe the human opinions that has more answers like acceptance, rejection, neutral and...
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    "Before" and "after": Investigating the relationship between temporal connect...

    : Sentence-initial temporal clauses headed by before, as in "Before the scientist submitted the paper, the journal changed its policy", have been shown to elicit sustained...
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    Nine Quick Tips for Analyzing Network Data

    International audience; These tips provide a quick and concentrated guide for beginners in the analysis of network data.