Bioinformatics Zen

This is the February edition of Bio::Blogs, an aggregation of bioinformatics posts from the past month. This issue has a particular focus on Open Notebook Science - researchers sharing their work as they produce it.

For this edition, with the help of Cameron Neylon, Jean-Claude Bradley, and Pedro Beltrao, I’ve tried to write a short essay on open science as well as the open notebook variety. I’ve posted this on my research website.

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Collaborating on the same document

Tom, Dick, and Harry are collaborating on a paper. Tom, being the PhD student, does all the work and then writes the paper. Tom then sends a copy to Dick and Harry who edit it with their opinions. Unfortunately Dick completely removes the second paragraph of the discussion, while Harry expands it. Both then send their edited copies back to Tom.

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