Progress on reproducibility

Progress on reproducibility.

deas supported by well-defined and clearly described methods and evidence are one of the cornerstones of science. After several publications indicated that a substantial number of scientific reports may not be readily reproducible, the scientific community and public began engaging in discussions about mechanisms to measure and enhance the reproducibility of scientific projects. In this context...

Progress toward openness, transparency, and reproducibility in cognitive neuroscience.

Accumulating evidence suggests that many findings in psychological science and cognitive neuroscience may prove difficult to reproduce; statistical power in brain imaging studies is low and has not improved recently; software errors in analysis tools are common and can go undetected for many years; and, a few large-scale studies notwithstanding, open sharing of data, code, and materials remain ...

On representation and reproducibility.

Two papers were selected this year for their implementation of novel analytical approaches on archived data provided by the Dartmouth fMRI Data Center. Coincidentally, the two independent studies, conducted in different parts of the world, tested their models on the same data set, originally collected by Ishai, Ungerleider, Martin, Schouten, and Haxby (1999) and Ishai, Ungerleider, Martin, and ...

Progress on Membrane Distillation and Related Technologies

On genomic repeats and reproducibility

RESULTS Here, we present a comprehensive analysis on the reproducibility of computational characterization of genomic variants using high throughput sequencing data. We reanalyzed the same datasets twice, using the same tools with the same parameters, where we only altered the order of reads in the input (i.e. FASTQ file). Reshuffling caused the reads from repetitive regions being mapped to dif...