Ten Simple Rules for a Computational Biologist’s Laboratory Notebook

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Ten Simple Rules for a Computational Biologist’s Laboratory Notebook

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Citation: @doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004385

Suggested keywords that help identify the relevance of this paper to Ecology and Evolution:

• Lab notebook
• GitHub
• version control

Which areas of expertise are particularly relevant to the paper?

• ecology and/or evolution;
• biostatistics;
• informatics and computational research;
• open science and reproducibility

Summary

Lists benefits and best practices for keeping and sharing lab notebooks.

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• What is the general main finding or takeaway of the paper?
• What did they analyze and how did they do it?
• What does this paper suggest to improve the issue with reproducibility in science?
• Do you have any concerns about methodology or the interpretation of these results beyond this analysis?

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