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Tackling the Issue of Reproducibility

Many of the world's top media outlets, including The New York Times and The Economist, have reported on the issue of reproducibility in scientific research. It's an issue that's being tackled directly by Science Exchange, who have launched the Reproducibility Initiative - a collaboration with PLoS and others to publish validated results.  

There is now an an opportunity to get involved with the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology, which is independently replicating key results from 50 cancer biology studies. They're looking for volunteers to help extract the methodology, statistical information, and checklist adherence of the identified key experiments for each of the papers. This process will help us understand how current practices of publishing this information influences the ability to independently replicate experiments. 

This is a great opportunity for graduate students, postdocs, and industry professionals to get involved. Contributors will receive co-authorship on each individual replication report they help with (published in PLoS ONE's reproducibility collection) and the final report.

If you are interested or know other researchers who would be interested in helping with this process please share this information and view this document, which contains the specifics of what is involved. If you want to contribute please contact Tim Errington.
Posted by David Foley on Jan 27, 2014 7:53 PM Europe/London

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