Structuring supplemental materials in support of reproducibility.
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SUBMITTER: Greenbaum D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5382465 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
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Structuring supplemental materials in support of reproducibility.
Greenbaum Dov D Rozowsky Joel J Stodden Victoria V Gerstein Mark M
Genome biology 20170405 1
Supplements are increasingly important to the scientific record, particularly in genomics. However, they are often underutilized. Optimally, supplements should make results findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (i.e., "FAIR"). Moreover, properly off-loading to them the data and detail in a paper could make the main text more readable. We propose a hierarchical organization for supplements, with some parts paralleling and "shadowing" the main text and other elements branching off from ...[more]
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