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https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.29977.1
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Conducting qualitative research during COVID-19: reflections on methods and challenges when interviewing marginalized refugee women
[version 1; peer review: 1 approved with reservations, 1 not approved]
Adelaide M. Lusambili, Sharon Ochieng, Mary M. Nyikuri, Constance S. Shumba
Peer Reviewers Sukhjeet Bains; Khangelani Moyo
  • Funders
  • Aga Khan University
  • International Organisation of Migration
PUBLISHED 11 Mar 2021
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.24497.2
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Future scenarios for the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Switzerland: an age-structured model
[version 2; peer review: 2 approved]
Janne Estill, Plamenna Venkova-Marchevska, Maroussia Roelens, Erol Orel, Alexander Temerev, Antoine Flahault, Olivia Keiser
Peer Reviewers Andrei R. Akhmetzhanov; Subhas Khajanchi
  • Funder
  • Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 11 Mar 2021
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.27349.1
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Characteristics, utilisation and influence of viewpoint articles from the Structured Operational Research and Training Initiative (SORT IT) – 2009-2020
[version 1; peer review: 2 approved]
Mohammed Khogali, Katie Tayler-Smith, Anthony D. Harries, Rony Zachariah, Ajay Kumar, Hayk Davtyan, Srinath Satyanarayana, Olga Denisiuk, Johan van Griensven, Anthony Reid, Saw Saw, Selma Dar Berger, Veerle Hermans, Abraham Aseffa, John C. Reeder
Peer Reviewers Desalegn Woldeyohannes; Prajjwal Pyakurel
  • Funder
  • World Health Organization
PUBLISHED 10 Mar 2021
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.51479.1
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Most Japanese individuals are genetically predisposed to recognize an immunogenic protein fragment shared between COVID-19 and common cold coronaviruses
[version 1; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]
Johannes M. Dijkstra, Aaron P. Frenette, Brian Dixon
Peer Reviewers Brian M. Baker; Andrea J. Sant; Anna Gil
PUBLISHED 10 Mar 2021
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.27384.1
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Meta-Signer: Metagenomic Signature Identifier based onrank aggregation of features
[version 1; peer review: 1 approved with reservations, 1 not approved]
Derek Reiman, Ahmed Metwally, Jun Sun, Yang Dai
Peer Reviewers Braden T Tierney; Boyang JI
PUBLISHED 09 Mar 2021
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.27532.2
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Genome-wide screening of upstream transcription factors using an expression library
[version 2; peer review: 2 approved]
Naoya Yahagi, Yoshinori Takeuchi
Peer Reviewers Kazuhiko Igarashi; Harukazu Suzuki
  • Funders
  • Suzuken Memorial Foundation
  • SENSHIN Medical Research Foundation
  • Japan Foundation for Applied Enzymology
  • Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
  • Uehara Memorial Foundation
  • Naito Foundation
  • Okinaka Memorial Institute for Medical Research
  • Takeda Science Foundation
  • Japan Heart Foundation
  • Kanae Foundation for the Promotion of Medical Science
  • Ono Medical Research Foundation
  • Nakatani Foundation for Advancement of Measuring Technologies in Biomedical Engineering
  • Senri Life Science Foundation
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 08 Mar 2021
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.25877.2
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Umpire 2.0: Simulating realistic, mixed-type, clinical data for machine learning
[version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 1 approved with reservations]
Caitlin E. Coombes, Zachary B. Abrams, Samantha Nakayiza, Guy Brock, Kevin R. Coombes
Peer Reviewers Julia Wrobel; Justin Mower and Andrew Zimolzak
  • Funders
  • National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
  • National Cancer Institute
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 05 Mar 2021
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.25306.2
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An assessment of the autism neuroimaging literature for the prospects of re-executability
[version 2; peer review: 2 approved]
Steven M. Hodge, Christian Haselgrove, Leah Honor, David N. Kennedy, Jean A. Frazier
Peer Reviewers Karsten Specht; Travis Riddle and Adam G. Thomas
  • Funders
  • National Institute of Mental Health
  • National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 04 Mar 2021
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.51446.1
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Retrospective analysis of the use of osteoporosis medication at the presentation of non-vertebral fragility fractures in a predominantly Hispanic population.
[version 1; peer review: 1 approved with reservations, 1 not approved]
Annelyn Torres-Reveron, Michael Serra-Torres
Peer Reviewers Nicole C. Wright; Kok-Yong Chin
PUBLISHED 03 Mar 2021
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.26347.2
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TicTimer Web: software for measuring tic suppression remotely
[version 2; peer review: 2 approved]
Jonathan K. Black, Jonathan M. Koller, Kevin J. Black
Peer Reviewers Jennifer Schild and Matthew W. Specht; Valerie Brandt
  • Funder
  • National Institute of Mental Health
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 03 Mar 2021
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.24031.2
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Bottled water brands are contaminated with multidrug resistant bacteria in Nairobi, Kenya
[version 2; peer review: 2 approved]
Safia Adam Mohamed, Andrew Nyerere, Willie Kipkemboi Sang, Musa Ngayo
Peer Reviewers Ahmad Zarei; Lucy A. Semerjian
  • Funder
  • Kenya Medical Research Institute
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 03 Mar 2021
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.28143.1
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Determination of field capacity in the Chibunga and Guano rivers micro-basins
[version 1; peer review: 2 approved]
Benito Mendoza, Manuel Fiallos, Sandra Iturralde, Patricio Santillán, Nelly Guananga, Jaime Bejar, Daniel A. Lowy, Imre Vágó, Zsolt Sándor
Peer Reviewers Holger Benavides-Muñoz; Dwita Sutjiningsih
PUBLISHED 03 Mar 2021
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.26669.2
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TreeSummarizedExperiment: a S4 class for data with hierarchical structure
[version 2; peer review: 3 approved]
Ruizhu Huang, Charlotte Soneson, Felix G.M. Ernst, Kevin C. Rue-Albrecht, Guangchuang Yu, Stephanie C. Hicks, Mark D. Robinson
Peer Reviewers Leo Lahti; Shila Ghazanfar; Matthew Ritchie
  • Funders
  • University Research Priority Program Evolution in Action at the University of Zurich
  • Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
  • Chan Zuckerberg Initiative DAF
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 02 Mar 2021
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.50937.1
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The importance of mentorship and collaboration for scientific capacity-building and capacity-sharing: perspectives of African scientists
[version 1; peer review: 1 approved with reservations]
Heather E. Burgess, Joanna Chataway
Peer Reviewers Elaine Byrne
PUBLISHED 01 Mar 2021
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.25019.2
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H3S28P Antibody Staining of Okinawan Oikopleura dioica Suggests the Presence of Three Chromosomes
[version 2; peer review: 2 approved]
Andrew W. Liu, Yongkai Tan, Aki Masunaga, Aleksandra Bliznina, Charlotte West, Charles Plessy, Nicholas M. Luscombe
Peer Reviewers Haiyang Feng; Shigeki Fujiwara
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 01 Mar 2021
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.51192.1
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Measure of unevenness in human genomes, described as a self-affine phase transition in a 'spin-chain’ model
[version 1; peer review: 1 not approved]
Sergey Feranchuk
Peer Reviewers Ying Ji
PUBLISHED 25 Feb 2021
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.40668.1
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RP-REP Ribosomal Profiling Reports: an open-source cloud-enabled framework for reproducible ribosomal profiling data processing, analysis, and result reporting
[version 1; peer review: 2 approved]
Travis L. Jensen, William F. Hooper, Sami R. Cherikh, Johannes B. Goll
Peer Reviewers Molly Hannigan and Christopher Nicchitta; Jordan A. Berg
  • Funders
  • The Emmes Company
  • National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease
PUBLISHED 24 Feb 2021
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.50798.1
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Interactive biomedical segmentation tool powered by deep learning and ImJoy
[version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 1 approved with reservations]
Wei Ouyang, Trang Le, Hao Xu, Emma Lundberg
Peer Reviewers Jean-Yves Tinevez and Dmitry Ershov; Jan Funke
  • Funders
  • Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
  • Swedish Research Council
  • LST Platform at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
PUBLISHED 24 Feb 2021
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.51143.1
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periodicDNA: an R/Bioconductor package to investigate k-mer periodicity in DNA
[version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 3 approved with reservations]
Jacques Serizay, Julie Ahringer
Peer Reviewers Ilya Ioshikhes; Sabarinathan Radhakrishnan; Eugene Korotkov; Boris Lenhard
  • Funders
  • Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship
  • Medical Research Council DTP studentship
PUBLISHED 24 Feb 2021
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.25164.2
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Protocol for a controlled, randomized, blind, clinical trial to assess the effects of anodal transcranial direct current stimulation dorsolateral prefrontal cortex associated with balance training using games in the postural balance of older people
[version 2; peer review: 2 approved]
Andre Issao Kunitake, João Carlos Ferrari Corrêa, Klaine Silva Nascimento, Bianca Barioni Cardoso de Oliveira, Natalia Maciel Muniz, Soraia Micaela Silva, Fernanda Ishida Corrêa
Peer Reviewers Fernando Zanela da Silva Arêas; Rodrigo Vitório
  • Funder
  • Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 23 Feb 2021
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