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F1000 has created Open Thinking as a place and program where open research communities can come together to discuss the opportunities to seize, as well as challenges to overcome, to truly embrace open research.

In Conversation: F1000 & YCharOS on the importance of antibody characterization data


As part of F1000’s "In Conversation With" series to mark our 10th anniversary, this special episode focuses on the work of the YCharOs project’s open science mission to characterize commercially available antibody reagents for every human protein. In this insightful and inspiring in-conversation, F1000’s James Barker, Associate Publisher responsible for the new F1000 YCharOS Gateway, and Dr Carl LaFlamme of the Montreal Neurological Institute, Head of the YCharOS Antibody Characterization Group,...

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Open Insights:  What open data, satellite-based and modelled products forecast for coral bleaching


Following recent reports of coral bleaching in the Florida Keys and off the coasts of some Caribbean countries, in this latest Open Thinking contribution, Callum Scott interviewed Dr Blake Spady, NOAA Coral Reef Watch Scientist and Product Developer, who led the Coral Reef Watch (CRW) study that predicted the 2022 mass bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef, published on F1000Research. In this interview Callum and Blake explore why heat stress is so important to coral reefs and what the CR...

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Open Insights: Digitizing Mozart, democratizing knowledge


At F1000, we believe that collaboration is central to meaningful scientific progress. We need to work together as a community to think about how we ensure that we maximize the ability of researchers to spend time conducting their research, but at the same time getting their outputs as quickly as possible to those that need them. This year, as part of our 10th anniversary celebratory activities, we’ve asked experts from across the globe to take stock of the progress they’ve seen over the las...

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Open Research Africa case study: H3Africa governance framework for genomics research and biobanking in Africa


The Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) consortium facilitates fundamental research into diseases on the African continent while also developing infrastructure, resources, training, and ethical guidelines to support a sustainable African research enterprise – led by African scientists, for the African people. Open Research Africa, formerly the AAS ( African Academy of Sciences) Open Research, is a joint initiative of the Science for Africa (SFA) Foundation and F1000 that provides Afri...

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