Category Archives: Open Notebook science

F1000 review: Open science is a research accelerator

As promised previously, today the following post-publication evaluation of Open Science is a research accelerator by Michael Woelfle, Piero Olliaro and Matthew H. Todd appeared in Faculty of 1000 Biology: Pineda-Krch, M. Faculty of 1000 Biology, 14 November 2011 http://f1000.com/13352995 It is commonly taken for granted that difficult … Continue reading

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Cycles in finite populations: A reproducible seminar in three acts

For this years Halloween I presented the mathematical biology seminar at the Centre for Mathematical Biology. Here is the title and the abstract… Cycles in finite populations: a reproducible seminar in three acts Many natural populations exhibit cyclic fluctuations. Explaining the underlying … Continue reading

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Open Access(ish) contribution: Cycles in finite populations: a reproducible seminar in three acts

It’s Open Access week and this is what the hoopla is all about “Open Access” to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need … Continue reading

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Turbo charged Open Science: this sort of thing is my bag, baby

A remarkable commentary appeared today in Nature Chemistry entitled Open Science is a research accelerator. In this commentary Michael Woelfle, Piero Olliaro and Matthew H. Todd describe a case study of an Open Science research project they conducted with the aim devising an alternative … Continue reading

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Choosing the tools of Open Notebook Science – redux

After tinkering with and pondering about my Open Notebook Science setup it looks like this time I will have to eat my own words. Specifically my statement “a wiki does not make a good platform for my Open Notebook Science … Continue reading

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Choosing the tools of Open Notebook Science

I will always remember my post Starting an Open Notebook Science project as the day that I almost started with ONS. But, complications arose, ensued, were overcome and here I am ready again to embark on my own ONS experiment. … Continue reading

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One step closer to Open Notebook Science

One step closer to Open Notebook Science right here. Now just hacking the tools. This is from the “Mario’s Entangled Bank” blog (http://pineda-krch.com) of Mario Pineda-Krch, a theoretical biologist at the University of Alberta.

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Starting an Open Notebook Science project

Traditionally the day-to-day activities of academic research has been a closed endeavor where research note books are usually only available to people in the lab. Open Notebook Science (ONS), in contrast, represents a revolutionary concept going against the grain of … Continue reading

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Distributed Open Notebook Science

One of the interesting concept that emerged during SciFoo, i.e. one that I actually was able to comprehend (sorry, Garrett, your 2 dimensional projection of the 7 dimensional particle space didn’t  not manage to penetrate my skull, but the pictures … Continue reading

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