DeepMind is a British company that was formed in 2010 with the aim of creating artificial general intelligence and using it to tackle some of society’s toughest challenges. DeepMind Health was launched in February 2016 at the Royal Society of Medicine. Their work is currently based around two strands: working with doctors, nurses […]

The phylogenetic ‘Tree of Life’, arguably the most elegant representation of the evolutionary process, perhaps of any biological process, is 150 years old this year. To commemorate this anniversary we have created a special collection of phylogenetics articles published on F1000Research. Darwin first sketched an evolutionary tree in an 1837 notebook entry, but both […]

The IICARus study is seeking volunteers to help assess the impact of the ARRIVE guidelines on the quality of reporting of in vivo research. Contributors will be listed as authors on the resulting publications. If you are interested in helping you can sign up here. For research involving animals to be as scientifically […]

The first articles have gone live on Wellcome Open Research today; 15 of them in total, with more submissions in the pipeline. The breadth of articles received so far starts to show just how broad these outputs can and should be (not just traditional narrative research articles). It also shows benefits of using such […]

Rusty Speidel is Marketing Director at the Center for Open Science (COS). He has had a long career in digital technology and technology marketing, and spent his early career designing and building online scholarly peer-review and article submission systems for a variety of scientific and medical journals. He also designed and developed some of […]

Guest post by two of our International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF) channel advisors, Helena Ledmyr and Malin Sandström. Global sharing of neuroscience data and software is one of INCF’s key values. Indeed one of the criteria for our new seed funding scheme (submit your application before Nov 30!) is that source code, data, […]

In this guest post, Hannah Hope, Open Research Co-ordinator at Wellcome, explains how the funder is aiming to put open into action via their new publishing platform Wellcome Open Research. At Wellcome, we are committed to improving health for everyone by helping great ideas to thrive. Our researchers are central to this. The accessibility of […]

Today is the beginning of this year’s annual Open Access Week. Now in its eighth year, this global event is an opportunity for the academic research community to continue to learn about the benefits of open access, to share what they’ve learned, and to  inspire wider participation in helping to make open access the […]

As the new Publisher of F1000 Platforms, I’m excited to announce that Wellcome Open Research has launched its online submission system, representing the first funder publishing platform to follow the F1000Research publishing model. It is a new service that has been developed for Wellcome-funded researchers to enjoy the benefits of wholly open publishing. The platform is supported by […]