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https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.152290.2
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Metagenome quality metrics and taxonomical annotation visualization through the integration of MAGFlow and BIgMAG
[version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]
Jeferyd Yepes-García, Laurent Falquet
Peer Reviewers Abraham Gihawi; Fotis Baltoumas; Juliette Hayer
  • Funders
  • Centenary Research Fund of the University of Fribourg
  • Fondation de Recherche en Biochimie, Epalinges, Switzerland
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 23 Sep 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.142054.2
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Effect of ethanol extract of nigella sativa L seeds and propofol on BDNF protein level as neuroplasticity and neuroprotection of traumatic brain injury in rats
[version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]
Kulsum Kulsum, Syahrul Syahrul, Kartini Hasbalah, Ummu Balqis
Peer Reviewers Li Liu; Mohamad Sofyan Harahap; Tommy Nazwar
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 23 Sep 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.141573.2
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Corticosteroids and invasive fungal infections in hospitalized COVID-19 patients – A single-center cross-sectional study
[version 2; peer review: 1 not approved]
Venkateswaran Ramanathan, Hariswar Pari Thenmozhi, Rakesh Singh, Srinivasan Bheemanathi Hanuman, Subathra Adithan
Peer Reviewers Prateek Nishant, Ranjeet Sinha and Sony Sinha
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 23 Sep 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.151912.2
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Life should be redefined: Any molecule with the ability to self-replicate should be considered life
[version 2; peer review: 2 approved]
Zheng Liu
Peer Reviewers Denis Noble; Kevin S. Lang
  • Funders
  • Guangxi Science and Technology Base and Special Fund for Talents
  • Natural Science Foundation of Guangxi Province
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 20 Sep 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.72896.4
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Prediction of the effects of the top 10 synonymous mutations from 26645 SARS-CoV-2 genomes of early pandemic phase
[version 4; peer review: 1 approved, 3 approved with reservations, 2 not approved]
Wan Xin Boon, Boon Zhan Sia, Chong Han Ng
Peer Reviewers Takahiko Koyama; Leyi Wang; Chandran Nithin; Roland Huber; Diego Forni; Tamar Schlick
  • Funder
  • Multimedia University, Malaysia IRFund 2.0
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 18 Sep 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.155406.1
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Simplification of clean development mechanism to measure CO2 emission reductions from shifting private transportation to mass rapid transit: a case study of MRT Jakarta Phase 1
[version 1; peer review: 1 approved with reservations]
Nunuj Nurdjanah, Tri Edhi Budhi Soesilo, Kosuke Mizuno, Raldi Hendro Koestoer
Peer Reviewers Qing Yu
PUBLISHED 18 Sep 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.156209.1
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A guide to selecting high-performing antibodies for Rab10 (UniProt ID: P61026) for use in western blot, immunoprecipitation, and immunofluorescence
[version 1; peer review: 2 approved]
Vera Ruíz Moleón, Charles Alende, Maryam Fotouhi, Kathleen Southern, Riham Ayoubi, Carl Laflamme, NeuroSGC/YCharOS/EDDU collaborative group, ABIF consortium
Peer Reviewers Jan Voskuil; Sian E. Evans
  • Funders
  • Ontario Genomics
  • Genome Quebec
  • Mitacs
  • Genome Canada
PUBLISHED 17 Sep 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.151422.2
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The gamma-band activity model of the near-death experience: a critique and a reinterpretation.
[version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]
Nigel A Shaw
Peer Reviewers Matthew R. Hudson; Pascal Michael; Duan Li
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 17 Sep 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.155928.1
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A guide to selecting high-performing antibodies for CSNK1A1 (UniProt ID: P48729) for use in western blot, immunoprecipitation, and immunofluorescence
[version 1; peer review: 2 approved]
Riham Ayoubi, Charles Alende, Maryam Fotouhi, Vera Ruíz Moleón, Sara González Bolívar, Kathleen Southern, Carl Laflamme, NeuroSGC/YCharOS/EDDU collaborative group, ABIF consortium
Peer Reviewers Deborah Moshinsky; Jan Voskuil
  • Funders
  • Ontario Genomics
  • Micas
  • Genome Quebec
  • Genome Canada
  • Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research
PUBLISHED 13 Sep 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.19931.7
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Are adverse effects of cannabidiol (CBD) products caused by tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) contamination?
[version 7; peer review: 3 approved]
Dirk W. Lachenmeier, Stephanie Habel, Berit Fischer, Frauke Herbi, Yvonne Zerbe, Verena Bock, Tabata Rajcic de Rezende, Stephan G. Walch, Constanze Sproll
Peer Reviewers Arno Hazekamp; Linda A. Parker; Volker Auwärter
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 13 Sep 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.140344.2
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NCBench: providing an open, reproducible, transparent, adaptable, and continuous benchmark approach for DNA-sequencing-based variant calling
[version 2; peer review: 2 approved]
Friederike Hanssen, Gisela Gabernet, Famke Bäuerle, Bianca Stöcker, Felix Wiegand, Nicholas H. Smith, Christian Mertes, Avirup Guha Neogi, Leon Brandhoff, Anna Ossowski, Janine Altmueller, Kerstin Becker, Andreas Petzold, Marc Sturm, Tyll Stöcker, Sugirthan Sivalingam, Fabian Brand, Axel Schmidt, Andreas Buness, Alexander J. Probst, Susanne Motameny, Johannes Köster
Peer Reviewers Justin M. Zook; Kez Cleal
  • Funders
  • German Federal Ministry for Education and Research
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 12 Sep 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.143144.2
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{MFPP(R). An R package for matrix-based flexible project planning
[version 2; peer review: 2 approved with reservations, 1 not approved]
Zsolt Tibor Kosztyán, Aamir Saghir
Peer Reviewers Shan Jayasinghe; Ágoston Kolos; Bálint Blaskovics
  • Funder
  • Ministry of Culture and Innovation of Hungary from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 12 Sep 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.149854.2
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Current status of immunodeficient mouse models as substitutes to reduce cat and dog use in heartworm preclinical research
[version 2; peer review: 4 approved]
Jessica L Dagley, Utami DiCosty, Crystal Fricks, Abdelmoneim Mansour, Scott McCall, John W McCall, Mark J Taylor, Joseph D Turner
Peer Reviewers Constantin Constantinoiu; Timothy G Geary; Qian Han; Jan Šlapeta
  • Funders
  • NC3R Skills & Knowledge Transfer Grant
  • Welcome Trust Institutional Translational Partnership Award
  • The UK National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs)
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 11 Sep 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.134020.5
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Isolation, morphological characterization, and screening virulence of Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium robertsii fungal isolates on Galleria mellonella
[version 5; peer review: 2 approved]
Dereje Geremew, Tadale Shiberu, Ararsa Leta
Peer Reviewers Tinatin Doolotkeldieva; Linnet Gohole
  • Funder
  • Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 11 Sep 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.144171.2
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Secondary range symmetric matrices
[version 2; peer review: 3 approved]
Divya Shenoy
Peer Reviewers P Sam Johnson; Pankaj Kumar Manjhi; Mehsin Jabel Atteya
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 11 Sep 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.131336.3
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Assessing the cytotoxicity of phenolic and terpene fractions extracted from Iraqi Prunus arabica against AMJ13 and SK-GT-4 human cancer cell lines
[version 3; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]
Matin Adil Mahmood, Abdulkareem Hameed Abd, Enas Jawad Kadhim
Peer Reviewers Serap Sahin-Bolukbasi; Heba A. S. El-Nashar; Purwantiningsih Sugita
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 10 Sep 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.154761.1
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UPLC-MS/MS analysis and chemical profile of Ficus pertusa L. bark, an ethnomedicinal resource from intertropical America.
[version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]
Ricardo D.D.G. de Albuquerque, Mayar L. Ganoza-Yupanqui, Frank Romel León-Vargas, Rosa Souza-Nájar, Daniel Carrasco-Montañez, Yessenia Ramos-Rivas
Peer Reviewers Invited
PUBLISHED 10 Sep 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.152224.1
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Generation and Characterization of a variant of Thermostable Moloney Murine Leukemia Virus Reverse Transcriptase (MMLV-RT) Enzyme
[version 1; peer review: 1 not approved]
Abdiaziz Ali Gosar, Josephine W. Kimani, Samson Muuo Nzou, Anne Wanjiru Mwangi, Faith Ndung'u, Guyo H. Sora, James H. Kimotho
Peer Reviewers Yuta Kanai
PUBLISHED 10 Sep 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.155200.1
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Determinants of nutrition knowledge among student migrants in West Midlands, United Kingdom
[version 1; peer review: 1 not approved]
Sarah Olatunji, Olukemi Asomuyide, Marafee Omar, Ayodele A.Falobi, Ayokunle B. Falana, Constance C. Ojo, Peter Collins, Yusuf A Ahmed, Opeolu O. Ojo
Peer Reviewers Pamela Koch
PUBLISHED 06 Sep 2024
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.151861.1
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Extracting ridge and valley lines in mountainous areas from airborne lidar data by utilizing line feature strength
[version 1; peer review: 1 not approved]
Rey-Jer You, Chao-Liang Lee
Peer Reviewers Fayez Tarsha Kurdi
  • Funder
  • Institute for Information Industry, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
PUBLISHED 05 Sep 2024
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