Call for submissions: Replication data
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Call for submissions: Functional genomic screening data
Scientific Data is inviting submissions releasing and describing functional genomic high throughput screen datasets. Submissions may be from a range of screening strategies that relied on a variety of different functional genomic libraries, including siRNA, shRNA, CRISPR, as well as cDNA and ORF overexpression libraries. Submitted articles may be considered for inclusion in a special article collection to be launched in September 2016. Read more
Scientific Data’s Japan Roadshow
Next week the Research Data Alliance (RDA) Seventh Plenary Meeting will take place in Tokyo, Japan. Data experts from all over the world will gather in Tokyo, marking this as an excellent opportunity for those wishing to learn about open research data and the open science landscape, especially in Japan. Before the RDA, the Japan Science and Technology Agency is organizing The Data Sharing Symposium, and afterward the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) along with the National Institute of Informatics, are co-organizing the Asian Open Access Meeting. Read more
Call for submissions: Zika virus related datasets
Scientific Data is inviting submissions releasing and describing datasets related to Zika virus and the associated outbreak of microcephalic cases in South America. Submissions may be considered for inclusion in a special article collection on this topic. Read more
ISA-explorer: A demo tool for discovering and exploring Scientific Data’s ISA-tab metadata
Since it’s inception, Scientific Data has been working to encourage a “show me the data” culture, with the aim of publishing Data Descriptors on fully reusable datasets. Datasets can only be used if data have been rigorously described; as recently shown, even when journal policies on data archiving are strong, data are not always shared in a reusable manner¹. Read more
Bloggers And Neuro-Tweeps Engaging Recreationally – or BANTER!
In 2010, BANTER started with a “tweet-up” (which is exactly what it sounds like, a meet-up of people who know each other from twitter) at a bar in San Diego during the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN). Natural born entertainer, @doc_becca, decided to make this a standard feature of the unofficial SfN program and ever since, BANTER has been an increasing success with neuroscience “tweeps” and bloggers. I ran some @symplur analytics for #sfn15 (official twitter hashtag for the main conference) to get this great dataviz on tweeps using the tag from Sept 16–Nov 16. There are more than 40 people among the top #sfn15 tweeps who also attended BANTER, which is a nice correlation. Are you in the picture? Read more
We’ve clarified our policies on institutional repositories
This week, we updated our data repository recommendations to clarify our existing support for institutional repositories. We have also made it easier for authors using these resources to submit manuscripts to Scientific Data. Read more
A snapshot of life on the savannah
Guest post by Todd J. Vision, Dryad Digital Repository. This blog was first posted on Dryad News & Views on Tuesday, June 9th 2015. Read more
Scientific Data now indexed by PubMed
Scientific Data’s content is now indexed by PubMed and freely available through PubMed Central (PMC), two interlinked services maintained by the US National Library of Medicine that are widely used by researchers in the biological and biomedical sciences. We have also been approved for indexing in the more selective MEDLINE database and our content will be progressively incorporated into MEDLINE in the near future. Read more
Code Sharing – read our tips and share your own
Scientific Data editors share their top tips for usefully sharing code within a publication, and invite readers to contribute their thoughts to the Twitter hashtag #codesharetips. Read more