Transparency and reproducibility: A step forward

One step forward

RRIDs: A Simple Step toward Improving Reproducibility through Rigor and Transparency of Experimental Methods

With the call for more rigorous scientific reporting, authentication, and transparency from the scientific community and funding agencies, one critical step is to make finding and identifying key resources in the published literature tractable. We discuss here the use of Research Resource Identifiers (RRIDs) as one tool to help resolve this tricky problem in reproducibility.

A Path Forward for Reproducibility

Good science, performed using best practices, may reveal to us fundamental biological truths. Our common goal as health science researchers and practitioners is to make accurate insights into how biological pathways truly work and apply them toward keeping ourselves healthy. When badly conducted science obfuscates or distorts these truths, biomedical progress may stall. Resources and time may b...

Editorial: Code Case - Investigating Transparency and Reproducibility

Everyone from scientists, reviewers, to funding agencies and publishers, talks about the lack of reproducibility and transparency in present research. Many high-profile papers are based on highly specialized techniques that few have mastered, which make them very difficult to reproduce. Many laboratories have developed their own software to perform data analysis. These are rarely evaluated by r...

Transparency and reproducibility in evolutionary research

The vitality of the science of evolutionary biology depends on new research findings that continually advance understanding, and the sound approaches by which those findings are obtained must be clearly documented. This transparency of documentation crucially grounds others’ assessment of the credibility of the inferences and interpretations. It is also essential to attempts of future scientist...