2013 in Genome Biology… according to F1000 reviewers
In 2013, BioMed Central's blog and Biome magazine have dedicated quite some space to considering alternative models of peer review. One emerging approach… Read more »
Latest posts by Naomi Attar (see all)
- tRFs and the Argonautes: gene silencing from antiquity - 2nd October 2014
- Keeping up with the Jobses: the role of technology in reproducible research - 26th September 2014
- ‘You might as well patent oxygen’ – an unashamedly unbalanced take on Australia’s support for gene patents - 5th September 2014
Data curveballs and variant strikeouts: Genome Biology plays the perfect game at ASHG2013
Two rarities seldom seen by Bostonians are the American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting (aka ASHG) and the baseball World Series. The former was last… Read more »
CSI: Genome Biology
The writers of popular forensics drama franchise CSI would be well advised to read Genome Biology today, as we publish an article that employs a widely used… Read more »
Nobel prizes, peer review, Open Access and bioinformatics: four awesome things
Nobel prizes can sometimes set me a-wondering what the point in journals is. One of the most well-known Nobel-winning papers, that of Watson & Crick, was… Read more »
On the mortality of television sets: function in the human genome according to the free gospel of Genome Biology*
With great fanfare comes great cynicism, and so it should: science is built on a tug-of-war between novel claims and kneejerk skeptism, and the probity that… Read more »
Randall and the spy: a prequel to the double helix
On April 25, Genome Biology published an interview with Raymond Gosling, who took the famous Photo 51 upon which Watson & Crick's model of DNA's… Read more »
Plant genomics podcast
You may recall that June's issue of Genome Biology was dedicated to the field of plant genomics (more info on the issue can be found in this blog post).… Read more »
#SMRTseq Tweet chat: how it went down
Genome Biology recently published a Correspondence article that argued for a bigger uptake of PacBio's SMRT sequencing platform. We debated the issues arising… Read more »
Perspectives on PacBio: Rich Roberts Q&A leads up to tomorrow's #SMRTseq Tweet chat
Tomorrow (July 31), Genome Biology will host the #SMRTseq Tweet chat on PacBio's SMRT sequencing platform, as discussed in detail in this earlier blog… Read more »
Rosalind Franklin: the grand old lady of DNA
If you are reading this, then the chances are you have an internet-enabled computer. And if you have an internet-enabled computer, then in all probability (in… Read more »