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The ongoing digital revolution in the age of big data is opening new research opportunities. Culturomics and iEcology, two emerging research areas based on the analysis of online data resources, can provide novel scientific insights and inform conservation and management efforts. To date, culturomics and iEcology have been applied primarily in the ...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has motivated many open and collaborative analytical research projects with real-world impact. However, despite their value, such activities are generally overlooked by traditional academic metrics. Science is ultimately improved by analytical work, whether ensuring reproducible and well-documented code to accompany papers, de...
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This Formal Comment presents an update to citation databases of top-cited scientists across all scientific fields, including more granular information on diverse indicators.
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Global change is causing a widespread decline in coral reefs. This Community Page article proposes to build the World Coral Conservatory, a “Noah's Ark” biological repository that taps into the network of the world’s public aquaria and coral reef scientists, in order to preserve the fast-disappearing biodiversity of coral reefs.
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Closed loop experimental configurations can drive chemical systems to become more lifelike by pushing them out of equilibrium; similar experimental arrangements can be applied to biological research. This Primer uses the recently published Chi-Bio system to explores the emerging trend in building open source libraries of hardware which has enabled ...
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The SARS-CoV-2 epidemic challenged universities and other academic institutions to rapidly adapt to urgent and life-threatening situations. It forced most institutions to shut down nearly every aspect of their research and educational enterprises. In doing so, university leaders were thrust into unchartered waters and forced them to make unpreceden...
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This Perspective article proposes a new paradigm to present SARS-CoV-2 phylogenetic analyses performed on a local level (municipal, county, or state), with results communicated in a clear, timely, and actionable manner. The authors believe that presenting results rapidly, and tailored to a non-expert audience, can serve as a template for effective ...
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This Community Page article describes how visually striking illustrations of SARS coronaviruses can capture the state of knowledge of the field and provide a touchstone for outreach and education about these pathogens.
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Publication of the analytical code underlying a scientific study is increasingly expected or even mandated by journals, allowing others to reproduce the results. However, a survey of more than 300 recently published ecology papers finds the majority have no code publicly available, handicapping efforts to improve scientific transparency.
