Tackling Irreproducible Research – The G3 Workshop
Earlier this month we hosted a one day workshop at the University of Melbourne focused on open access publishing and tackling the reproducibility crisis currently plaguing the life sciences.
In the morning there was a series of talks about how we can go about making our own work more reproducible through open access publishing and open source tools. This was followed by an afternoon of workshops, one on the use of Galaxy on the NeCTAR Research Cloud for conducting reproducible research, and another on Authorea for writing open access articles.
After the speakers’ panel, we asked everyone who attended to come up to the whiteboard and vote on what key outcomes they would most like to see followed up on next. Overwhelmingly, the vote was in favour of more training in tools for open access research and publishing, with over 85% of the attendees voting for this outcome.
— A few of the attendees stayed behind with the panel members to discuss reproducible research.
The workshop was put together by Nicholas Wong, and run in partnership with the Australian Bioinformatics Network and The Research Bazaar. Sponsorship was kindly provided by the Australian Bioinformatics Network, Illumina Australia, VLSCI and The GigaScience Journal.
