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Our lab and Eterna are piloting a new form of peer review for scientific publications

Our lab and Eterna are piloting a new form of peer review for scientific publications

Our lab and Eterna are piloting a new form of peer review for scientific publications. Because so many of our upcoming papers will involve players as co-authors, we wanted to find a way for anyone to leave & respond to comments on papers before and during paper review, in the nearly frictionless way that Google docs allow. So that’s what we’re doing. We are making papers available on preprint servers like arXiv and bioRxiv and we are including a Google doc link in the abstract that players (or other members of the public) can follow. We can all leave comments — and comments on comments — in that Google doc. These comments will show up as notifications to the paper’s lead author, who can join those threads and quickly make edits to the paper. As a pilot, Rhiju is putting up a paper on a data analysis method for quantifying thermodynamics in RNA structure mapping experiments. Check it out on the LIFFT BioRxiv preprint and the LIFFT community review Google doc . An Eterna blog post is here

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