Reproducibility in life science research

Readings due before class

Required

• Chapters 26-30 They are very short and most of the material is at least passingly familiar to you.

• Duke scandal This event prompted an indepth study and guidelines; see OMICS below.

• Reproducibility crisis The wiki page gives a decent overview to the problem and surveys the major angles for addressing this issue.

Recommended Reading

• OMICS - lessons learned and the path forward

• Distill A new way of publishing?

• Distill for R

• 1,500 scientists lift the lid on reproducibility

• Disagreement

• Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos

Action items

• Assignment #4

• Project

• Start to prepare for final

Points of Reflection

• What from the course have you learnt that could help increase the reproducibility of your own research?

• Could an approach such as Distill work for the life sciences?