Big Data initiative

In a recent editorial in the journal Nature, Francis Collins and Lawrence Tabak from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) discuss the concerns that NIH has with current lack of reproducibility in biomedical research, and propose steps for improving the repoducibility records. In their editorial they point out that we have traditionally considered science to be a self-correcting field. Given the expectation that over time, all reported works would be replicated by peers. Read More »