I am just back from a very busy trip to Boston for the ACS. It was great to meet up with many people I see only rarely, at these meetings as well as meet new people including one with a molecule tattoo that got a lot of interest on Twitter . I gave 5 talks …
Category Archive: Open access publishing
Aug
11
My updated schedule for the ACS Boston meeting
Well next week it is the ACS in Boston and of course I leave it to the week before to pull everything together. I initially put up here my listing of abstracts titles etc back in May. This has now been updated a bit to include additional talk and poster showings as well as times …
May
22
Open Source Bayesian Models (X2)
For the last 5-6 years I have been kind of obsessed (in a good way) with how perhaps we could try to get computational machine learning models for drug discovery to a point where they could be shared. The reasoning behind this being that we publish papers, but the models described in them never really …
Mar
22
What warrants an erratum and why the old publishing model must change
Friday AM my day started with an email which I have marked up and added links to Dear Dr. Ekins: It has come to our attention that an error was identified in your recent Perspective entitled “The parallel worlds of public and commercial bioactive chemistry data” published in the March 12, 2015 issue of the …
Dec
15
A year in publications – 2014
A year in collaborative publications, the ups and downs and a few random comments as well (with a big thanks to all involved): 1. Ekins S and Freundlich JS and Coffee M, A common feature pharmacophore for FDA-approved drugs inhibiting the Ebola virus, F1000research, 3: 277, 2014. This came initially from a Twitter exchange of …
Dec
04
Chemical probes and parallel database worlds – who wants to know? More publishing fun
This post is long and a highly detailed description of the challenges involved in getting scientific work published on one level, on another it gets to the heart of discoverability of data, data analysis and just the slog of publishing something that you hope is going to interest others in your direct field. …
Aug
18
Rare diseases collection at F1000Research
I have mentioned previously that I have the honor to edit a collection of articles for F1000Research. So here is your chance if you are in the rare disease community and you have something you want to publish..do it now! Having published previously in F1000Research with collaborators I found the process was simple compared to …
May
06
How open publications could help rare diseases – why it needs a shake up
Working with the Hereditary Neuropathy Foundation (HNF) on Charcot-Marie-Tooth and related diseases, we have started to put out quaterly updates to highlight research being funded and also fundraising efforts. The latest update covers some research using Zebrafish. This also set in motion a bit of thought a few weeks ago on open publications. If you …
May
02
Article visibility and open access : Making TB Mobile visible
Always it seems as scientists we are playing a fine line between being either “under the radar” presence and not over hyping our work and then also needing to be visible to collaborate, get grants and build our social reputation. A recent set of slides by Antony Williams highlights the importance of having an “online …
Apr
09
Publishing on rare diseases with F1000Research
This little post starts with a little matter of writing the RDCRN grant proposal on CMT and GAN last year with my colleagues Lori Sames, Allison Moore and Renee Arnold. Pretty soon after finishing this we realized we had written so much text that maybe we should write an opinion piece for a journal so …
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