eLife: labs-posts

Executable Research Articles: a live session to explain a multifaceted experience

Mon, 13 Dec 2021 11:00:46 +0000

Watch the recording of eLife and Stencila live demo session at Open Publishing Fest on Executable Research Articles.

The story of Nextflow: Building a modern pipeline orchestrator

Thu, 14 Oct 2021 08:00:31 +0000

An in-depth insight, and learning opportunity, about the importance of data-driven computational pipelines for orchestrating scientific workflows.

tidyqpcr: quantitative PCR analysis in the tidyverse

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 09:30:00 +0000

Building on the ever-expanding tidyverse collection, a look into a new series of R scripts for qPCR analysis.

eLife authors relay their experiences with Executable Research Articles

Tue, 29 Jun 2021 13:50:00 +0000

Pioneering the new open publishing format, eLife authors share their feedback on what it’s like to enrich their papers through ERA.

eLife Innovation Sprint 2021: Applications are now open

Fri, 25 Jun 2021 10:30:00 +0000

We welcome applicants that want to make an impact on our selection of projects at our Sprint 2021 event.

Rebuilding foundations: Making Open Knowledge Maps future-proof

Fri, 11 Jun 2021 10:00:00 +0000

How the Open Knowledge Maps team tackled technical debt, while building the foundations for new promising features.

PREreview: Applying an equity lens to tool design and implementation

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 15:30:00 +0000

PREreview guides us through its Equity, Diversity and Inclusion journey to create best practices in knowledge evaluation in academia.

Innovation Sprint 2021: The iteration of good practices

Mon, 10 May 2021 15:00:00 +0000

Call for projects opens today for an online event on October 4th–5th.

Outbreak, a micropublishing journal for collaborative COVID-19 research

Tue, 20 Apr 2021 15:00:00 +0000

How flashpub.io crowdsources science for all researchers.

eLife Innovation Initiative: a community-driven approach promoting open-source innovation

Tue, 23 Mar 2021 16:00:00 +0000

We explain how we work with our community to bring open source to open science.

Open-source Community Call: Covid-19 open projects updates

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 16:30:00 +0000

Watch the recording of our discussion about the recent efforts by the open-source community to review and map preprints throughout the pandemic.

Announcing the next phase of Executable Research Articles

Mon, 01 Mar 2021 12:45:00 +0000

eLife and Stencila renew their partnership to make Executable Research Articles accessible to even more researchers and publishers.

ScienceBeam: Using open technology to extract knowledge from research PDFs

Fri, 04 Dec 2020 13:00:00 +0000

We report on our progress towards an open-source machine learning solution for the automatic extraction of semantically structured data from research PDFs.

Innovation Sprint 2020: Project roundup

Tue, 24 Nov 2020 11:12:36 +0000

We showcase the variety of projects developed during this year’s Innovation Sprint.

Welcome to a new ERA of reproducible publishing

Mon, 24 Aug 2020 09:01:44 +0000

New open-source technology lets eLife authors publish Executable Research Articles that treat live code and data as first-class citizens.

Python for the practicing neuroscientist: an online educational resource

Mon, 10 Aug 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Learn to analyze neural data using Python with this interactive, case study-based approach

Innovation Leaders 2020: A summary

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 12:30:31 +0000

We share some of the highlights, outcomes and learnings from our first open leadership and mentorship programme.

CoVis: a new tool to discover reliable COVID-19 research

Thu, 23 Jul 2020 12:33:59 +0000

CoVis is a community-driven resource to help scientists kick-start their COVID-19 research.

Making (neuro)science accessible world-wide: Online seminars for the globe

Tue, 26 May 2020 07:24:49 +0000

World Wide Neuro reconnects researchers and facilitates scientific discourse in the times of the pandemic.

neuromatch: Algorithms to match scientists

Mon, 18 May 2020 13:35:00 +0000

We developed machine-learning algorithms to help connect scientists during online research conferences.

eLife Innovation Sprint 2020: Accepted projects

Mon, 18 May 2020 12:55:20 +0000

We invite everyone passionate about transforming research communication and culture to join these 15 project teams in September.

SmartFigures Dashboard and Editor: tools for quick and easy research communication

Tue, 14 Apr 2020 14:47:24 +0000

An open tool stack for collaboratively authoring and sharing interoperable, discoverable scientific figures.

Innovation Sprint 2020: Design, test, learn, repeat

Mon, 30 Mar 2020 08:08:48 +0000

We reflected on the first two iterations of the eLife Innovation Sprint, and are ready to share our plans for the next.

Open-Source Community Call: the latest technology updates in open research communication

Wed, 04 Mar 2020 14:13:04 +0000

Innovators share the latest updates and opportunities in the open-source space for research communication and publishing.

Open Knowledge Maps: A visual interface to the world’s scientific knowledge

Wed, 26 Feb 2020 12:51:43 +0000

A software upgrade towards transforming research discovery into an open, collaborative process.

FAIR-biomed: On-demand research information

Mon, 27 Jan 2020 11:42:23 +0000

An open-source browser extension that delivers information from specialised databases directly to readers

Innovator Story: The search for better solutions

Tue, 21 Jan 2020 17:05:53 +0000

Junseon Yoo, the founder of Pluto, explores the challenges and opportunities for better intellectual collaboration through building Scinapse.

Innovation Leaders 2020: Introducing the cohort

Wed, 15 Jan 2020 14:16:05 +0000

We announce the participants and projects joining our new mentorship and open leadership training programme.

FORCE2019: Establishing a shared vision for preprints

Wed, 18 Dec 2019 10:40:04 +0000

Researchers, technologists, publishers and other stakeholders gathered to share visions and priorities for preprints in life science.

HPC4Africa: Open bioinformatics for Africa

Thu, 05 Dec 2019 09:05:10 +0000

Towards a blueprint for a High Performance Computing infrastructure for African bioinformatics research.

Innovation Leaders 2020: Meet our mentors and experts

Wed, 27 Nov 2019 08:55:01 +0000

We introduce the mentors and experts supporting our new mentorship and open leadership training programme.

Open-Source Community Call: AI and machine-learning technologies for open research

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 15:35:10 +0000

We share a recording of our discussion on the recent efforts and opportunities in applying cutting-edge technologies to research communication.

Introducing Innovation Leaders 2020

Fri, 25 Oct 2019 07:18:40 +0000

We invite you to join our mentorship programme designed for innovators in open science and research communication.

Innovation Sprint 2019: Project roundup

Thu, 10 Oct 2019 07:20:00 +0000

From web tools to drive forward research discovery, citation and evaluation, to literature curation and knowledge extraction, we showcase the projects developed at this year’s Innovation Sprint.

Innovator Story: Learning from errors

Wed, 02 Oct 2019 09:42:29 +0000

Michèle Nuijten shares her journey of creating Statcheck, a checker for statistical reporting inconsistencies.

Innovation Sprint: A podcast

Tue, 24 Sep 2019 12:07:54 +0000

A sneak peek of what happened at the eLife Innovation Sprint 2019.

PeerTax: Investigating the taxonomy of peer reviews

Fri, 06 Sep 2019 16:49:04 +0000

We describe a machine learning approach towards understanding the fundamental components of peer-review reports.

Innovator Story: Unlocking knowledge from PDFs

Thu, 15 Aug 2019 12:06:45 +0000

Patrice Lopez’s commitment to learning and contributing open-source led to the creation of a powerful, versatile tool for knowledge extraction and annotation.

Open-Source Community Call: Exploring tools for reproducible research

Mon, 15 Jul 2019 16:53:47 +0000

Community members share the latest efforts and opportunities in developing tools for conducting and communicating research.

Rebooting reproducibility: From re-execution to replication

Fri, 12 Jul 2019 11:05:25 +0000

Critical questions for building and employing more useful tools for reproducible research.

Reproducible Document Stack: Towards a scalable solution for reproducible articles

Wed, 22 May 2019 12:20:27 +0000

We announce our roadmap towards an open, scalable infrastructure for the publication of computationally reproducible articles.

Apply now for the eLife Innovation Sprint 2019

Thu, 02 May 2019 22:11:13 +0000

The second edition of the Innovation Sprint will take place September 4-5 in Cambridge, UK.

Innovator Story: Wrestling the Octopus

Wed, 24 Apr 2019 16:33:59 +0000

Alex Freeman describes how her love for storytelling propelled her from producing TV programmes to reinventing science publishing.

Libero Reviewer: The making of a user-friendly submission and peer-review platform

Fri, 12 Apr 2019 08:26:51 +0000

A review of the challenges and lessons learned in managing the development of Libero Reviewer.

JetFighter: Towards figure accuracy and accessibility

Thu, 04 Apr 2019 14:33:13 +0000

JetFighter screens preprints to improve data representation and colour-blind accessibility.

From our Sprint to your browser: An update on Plaudit

Sun, 17 Mar 2019 23:57:48 +0000

We present a new mechanism for the academic community to openly endorse publications.

Open-source technology in publishing: Explore the latest community updates

Wed, 06 Mar 2019 15:07:05 +0000

From online authoring, to a submissions wizard, annotations, endorsements for published research, reproducible manuscripts, screening figures for accessibility, and indexing data availability statements – February updates from the community call are now available.

Introducing eLife’s first computationally reproducible article

Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:51:53 +0000

Blending the traditional manuscript with live code, data and interactive figures, we showcase a new way for researchers to tell their full story.

Community first: An evolution in the approach to open publishing infrastructure with Libero

Wed, 05 Dec 2018 12:30:00 +0000

Paul Shannon, Head of Technology, shares highlights from eLife’s journey in creating the Libero community.

Integrating Binder and Stencila – the building blocks to increased open communication and transparency

Mon, 19 Nov 2018 10:38:48 +0000

Find out how this new project can help researchers communicate their work openly, collaborate with other scientists and ensure the high quality and transparency of their workflow and findings.