Better research by better sharing

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Figure 1. Open Science Building Blocks

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Figure 2. Sharing as part of the workflowFigure credits: Tomasz Zielinski and Andrés Romanowski

Being FAIR

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  • screenshot of excerpt of the paper stating that standard methods were used without any further detail

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  • Whether trying to import the data to CSV, Excel, R, python or any other statistical package, this source is in an incredibly inconvenient format, as you can see in this screenshot showing what happened when we tried to copy-and-paste the data into Excel:
    Figure 1b. Impossible average

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    Puzzlingly, the authors have chosen to include the SRA accession number in the final sentence of the ‘Acknowledgments’ section. Perplexingly, searching the SRA website with the accession number brings back twelve results at the time of writing, none of which contain the cited accession number in them, but they appear to correspond to an experiment with a title and institutional affiliation which match the journal article, as you can see from this screenshot:
    screenshot showing results of a search of the SRA website using the cited accession number

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    Figure 2. logo spelling out F, Findable, A, Accessible, I, Interoperable, R, Re-usable From SangyaPundir

    Tools for Oracles and Overlords

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    Git change log

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    Git entry documenting change

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    View of readmefile

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    View of readmefile

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    Change entry for multifiles

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    Contribution view

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    GitHub personal page

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    Benchling record with provenance

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    History of changes

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    Benchling data links

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    Calendar

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    Plasmid references

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    Plasmid map

    Public repositories

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    DOI

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    DOI

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    Taking another research area: if you search for ‘genomics’ on FAIRsharing, you’ll get a list of more than fifty recommended repositories.
    Whereas PLoS provides a more biologically meaningful set of suggested Omics repositories, see screenshot below: screenshot of Omics section of PLoS webpage

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    Figure 1. I am some figure