Welcome to our Friday feature link collection: SNPpets. During the week we come across a lot of links and reads that we think are interesting, but don’t make it to a blog post. Here they are for your enjoyment… Another SPORE winner: “PlantingScience – fostering student research through scientific inquiry and online mentorship.” [Jennifer] Interesting [...]
I posted about WebMed Central and post-publication review last week. I couched it in the terms of the problem with ‘big data’ and traditional publishing: The amount of data available (demand) is far greater than the available number of traditional and open-access pre-review publications (supply). This, along with other factors, is why Mary keeps saying “The [...]
WebMedCentral is a “post publication peer review” publication. The purpose of the site is for the fast, open, transparent and free dissemination of biomedical data. The process is to publish your research and the the review process happens after publication. You can see more about this on their site’s peer review policy. I can see the [...]
Welcome to our Friday feature link collection: SNPpets. During the week we come across a lot of links and reads that we think are interesting, but don’t make it to a blog post. Here they are for your enjoyment… Working my way through: @eurogene: Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: Summary of a Workshop (IoM) – Nat Acad. [...]
Welcome to our Friday feature link collection: SNPpets. During the week we come across a lot of links and reads that we think are interesting, but don’t make it to a blog post. Here they are for your enjoyment… Cool art review in Nature of art by sculptor Conrad Shawcross who “is becoming famed for [...]
Just a quick comment gathered from a link Mary showed me. I have had my run ins with reviewers of papers and grants. Some reviewers definitely have an agenda and, as humans, all reviews have subjective biases. I could tell you stories. But, for the most part, even given the few huge frustrations, the review [...]
Welcome to our Friday feature link collection: SNPpets. During the week we come across a lot of links and reads that we think are interesting, but don’t make it to a blog post. Here they are for your enjoyment… 12 Must-have iPhone Apps for Biomedical Research (thanks for the pingback, Walter!) [Mary] Is the internet [...]
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