A community-led initiative for training in reproducible research

Susann Auer; Nele A Haeltermann; Tracey L Weissberger; Jeffrey C Erlich; Damar Susilaradeya; Magdalena Julkowska; Małgorzata Anna Gazda; Benjamin Schwessinger; Nafisa M Jadavji; Reproducibility for Everyone Team

doi:10.7554/eLife.64719

A community-led initiative for training in reproducible research

Elife. 2021 Jun 21:10:e64719. doi: 10.7554/eLife.64719.

Collaborators

Reproducibility for Everyone Team:
Angela Abitua¹³, Anzela Niraulu¹⁴, Aparna Shah^{15

16}, April Clyburne-Sherinb¹², Benoit Guiquel¹⁷, Bradly Alicea^{18

16}, Caroline LaManna¹³, Diep Ganguly^{9

16}, Eric Perkins¹³, Helena Jambor¹⁹, Ian Man Ho Li²⁰, Jennifer Tsang¹³, Joanne Kamens¹³, Lenny Teytelman²¹, Mariella Paul^{22

16}, Michelle Cronin¹³, Nicolas Schmelling²³, Peter Crisp^{9

16}, Rintu Kutum^{24

16}, Santosh Phuyal^{24

16}, Sarvenaz Sarabipour^{25

26

16}, Sonali Roy²⁷, Susanna M Bachle¹³, Tuan Tran^{28

16}, Tyler Ford²⁹, Vicky Steeves³⁰, Vinodh Ilangovan^{31

26}, Ana Baburamani^{32

16}, Susanna Bachle¹³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Plant Physiology, Institute of Botany, Faculty of Biology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
² Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, United States.
³ QUEST Center, Berlin Institute of Health, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
⁴ Shanghai Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
⁵ Medical Technology Cluster, Indonesian Medical Education and Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia.
⁶ Boyce Thompson Institute, Ithaca, United States.
⁷ CIBO/InBIOO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Porto, Portugal.
⁸ Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
⁹ Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
¹⁰ Department of Biomedical Science, Midwestern University, Glendale, United States.
¹¹ Department of Neuroscience, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
¹² Reproducibility for Everyone, New York, United States.
¹³ Addgene, Boston, United States.
¹⁴ Neuroscience Graduate Program, Ohio State University, Columbus, United States.
¹⁵ The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States.
¹⁶ eLife ambassador, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
¹⁷ Addgene, London, United Kingdom.
¹⁸ Orthogonal Research and Education Laboratory, Champaign, United States.
¹⁹ Centre for Regenerative Therapies Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
²⁰ Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, United States.
²¹ Protocols.io, San, Francisco, United States.
²² Psychology of Language Group, University of Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany.
²³ Institute for Synthetic Microbiology, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
²⁴ Institute of Basic Medical Science, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
²⁵ Institute for Computational Medicine and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Baltimore, United States.
²⁶ Member of the eLife Early-Career Advisory Group, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
²⁷ Plant Biotechnology, Tennessee State University, Nashville, United States.
²⁸ Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.
²⁹ Picture as Portal, San, Francisco, United States.
³⁰ Research Data Management and Reproducibility, New York University, New, York, United States.
³¹ Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie, Göttingen, Germany.
³² Centre for the Development of Brain, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Open and reproducible research practices increase the reusability and impact of scientific research. The reproducibility of research results is influenced by many factors, most of which can be addressed by improved education and training. Here we describe how workshops developed by the Reproducibility for Everyone (R4E) initiative can be customized to provide researchers at all career stages and across most disciplines with education and training in reproducible research practices. The R4E initiative, which is led by volunteers, has reached more than 3000 researchers worldwide to date, and all workshop materials, including accompanying resources, are available under a CC-BY 4.0 license at https://www.repro4everyone.org/.

Keywords: FAIR data; accessible protocols; none; reproducibility; rigor; transparency; transparent data processing.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Biomedical Research / methods*
Biomedical Research / standards*
Humans
Reproducibility of Results
Research Design / standards*
Research Personnel / education*

Grants and funding

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.