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A new Nature study by researchers from VUB and KU Leuven challenges the reported decline in scientific disruption. Using VSC’s high-memory CPU nodes to analyse citation networks with hundreds of milli...

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The long read: Scientists are battling over whether supposedly simple organisms should be considered ‘intelligent’. The outcome could reshape our understanding of the natural world – and our own place...

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The spreadsheet software Microsoft Excel, when used with default settings, is known to convert gene names to dates and floating-point numbers. A programmatic scan of leading genomics journals reveals that approximately one-fifth of papers with supplementary Excel gene lists contain erroneous gene name conversions.

A new paper takes aim at the claim that science has become less disruptive

Nature - Dataset artefacts can partially drive the measured decline in disruption

Nature - Dataset artefacts can partially drive the measured decline in disruption

In cell biology, computational models of biological systems range from minimal representations with a handful of parameters to whole-cell simulations tracking thousands of molecular species across a c...

In cell biology, computational models of biological systems range from minimal representations with a handful of parameters to whole-cell simulations tracking thousands of molecular species across a c...

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