BACKGROUND It has been estimated that about 45% of abstracts that are accepted for presentation at biomedical meetings will subsequently be published in full. The acceptance of abstracts at meetings and their fate after initial rejection are less well understood. We set out to estimate the proportion of abstracts submitted to meetings that are eventually published as full reports, and to explor...

The abstracts of the 2013 American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) Annual Meeting are attached to this article as searchable PDF files. To view the files, click on the " Abstracts " link in the content box in the middle column of the HTML version of this article. The ASCB and the Editor-in-Chief of Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC) have decided to present the Annual Meeting abstracts in this...

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