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https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.159115.2
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The first mitochondrial genome of Haemagogus equinus from Jamaica
[version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 1 approved with reservations]
Simone L. Sandiford, Simmoy A. A. Noble, Samra A. Pierre, Douglas E. Norris, Renee Ali
Peer Reviewers Din Syafruddin and Puji Budi Setia Asih; Craig Wilding
  • Funders
  • NSF-Accelerator Project D-688: Computing the Biome
  • Global Infectious Diseases Research Training Program
  • Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute and Bloomberg Philanthropies
  • University at Buffalo Clinical and Translational Science Institute
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 02 Jul 2025
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.164319.1
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Improving rigor and reproducibility in chromatin immunoprecipitation assay data analysis workflows with Rocketchip
[version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]
Viktoria Haghani, Aditi Goyal, Alan Zhang, Osman Sharifi, Natasha Mariano, Dag Yasui, Ian Korf, Janine LaSalle
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  • Funders
  • Rett Syndrome Research Trust
  • Autism Science Foundation
  • National Institutes of Health
PUBLISHED 25 Jun 2025
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.163152.1
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Leveraging Synthetic Data to Validate a Benchmark Study for Differential Abundance Tests for 16S Microbiome Sequencing Data 
[version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]
Eva Kohnert, Clemens Kreutz
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PUBLISHED 25 Jun 2025
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.149263.3
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Recent advances in the design of SERS substrates and sensing systems for (bio)sensing applications: Systems from single cell to single molecule detection
[version 3; peer review: 3 approved]
Sai Ratnakar Tadi, Ashwini G Shenoy, Anirudh Bharadwaj, Sreelakshmi C S, Chiranjay Mukhopadhyay, Kapil Sadani, Pooja Nag
Peer Reviewers Nabadweep Chamuah; Debasmita Mondal; Ranjan Ganguly
  • Funder
  • Science and Engineering Research Board
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 24 Jun 2025
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.160650.2
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APF-YOLOV8: Enhancing Multiscale Detection and Intra-Class Variance Handling for UAV-Based Insulator Power Line Inspections
[version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 1 approved with reservations]
Rita Aitelhaj, Badr-Eddine Benelmostafa, Hicham Medromi
Peer Reviewers Jeya prakash Kadambarajan; Md Sabid Hasan and Md Mostafizur Rahman Komol
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 23 Jun 2025
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.154432.2
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Deep learning neural network development for the classification of bacteriocin sequences produced by lactic acid bacteria
[version 2; peer review: 2 approved with reservations]
Lady L. González, Isaac Arias-Serrano, Fernando Villalba-Meneses, Paulo Navas-Boada, Jonathan Cruz-Varela
Peer Reviewers John J. Georrge; Alaa Kareem Niamah
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 20 Jun 2025
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.164583.1
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Assembly and quantification of transcripts from noisy long reads with NIFFLR
[version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]
Alina Guo, Mihaela Pertea, Aleksey V Zimin
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  • Funders
  • Directorate for Biological Sciences
  • NIH
PUBLISHED 20 Jun 2025
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.162911.2
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Region-wise landmarks-based feature extraction employing SIFT, SURF, and ORB feature descriptors to recognize Monozygotic twins from 2D/3D Facial Images
[version 2; peer review: 1 approved]
Gangothri Sanil, Krishna Prakasha K, Srikanth Prabhu, Vinod Nayak, Aparna Jayakala
Peer Reviewers Dhimas Tribuana
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 20 Jun 2025
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.164918.1
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Impact of industrial wastewater on the microbiome and resistome of waterbodies: a systematic review
[version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]
Olukayode Adebola Ibitoye, Abdulganiy Babatunde Agbaje, Chinyere Anyanwu, Ilemobayo Victor Fasogbon, Reuben Samson Dangana, Saheed Adekunle Akinola, Reuben S. Magehembe
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PUBLISHED 19 Jun 2025
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.74223.2
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ALL-IN meta-analysis: breathing life into living systematic reviews and prospective meta-analyses
[version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]
Judith ter Schure, Peter Grünwald
Peer Reviewers Junfeng Wang; Ewelina Rogozinska; Shubhendu Trivedi
  • Funder
  • Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 19 Jun 2025
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.163622.2
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Ergonomic Design and Evaluation of Cloth-Pulling Devices for Praewa Silk Weavers 
[version 2; peer review: 2 approved with reservations]
Wuttichai Yota, Manida Swangnetr Neubert, Teeraphun Kaewdok
Peer Reviewers Ashish Kumar Meher; Shankar Subramaniam
  • Funder
  • Thammasat University Research Unit in Occupational Ergonomics, Thailand
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 16 Jun 2025
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.164796.1
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The Limits of AI in Understanding Emotions: Challenges in Bridging Human Experience and Machine Perception
[version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]
Alain Finet, Kevin Kristoforidis, Julie Laznicka
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  • Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
PUBLISHED 13 Jun 2025
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.160217.2
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A guide to selecting high-performing antibodies for Stearoyl-CoA desaturase (SCD1) (UniProt ID: O00767) for use in western blot, immunoprecipitation, and immunofluorescence
[version 2; peer review: 2 approved with reservations]
Vera Ruíz Moleón, Charles Alende, Maryam Fotouhi, Sara González Bolívar, Riham Ayoubi, Carl Laflamme, NeuroSGC/YCharOS/EDDU collaborative group, ABIF consortium
Peer Reviewers Cecilia Williams and Matilda Holm; Michael L Garelja
  • Funders
  • Ontario Genomics
  • Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research
  • Génome Québec
  • Mitacs
  • Genome Canada
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 13 Jun 2025
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.162496.1
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Generation of human iPSC-derived pancreatic organoids to study pancreas development and disease
[version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]
Jean-Francois Darrigrand, Abigail Isaacson, Francesca Maria Spagnoli
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  • Funders
  • National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research
  • Wellcome Trust PhD programme PhD studentship
PUBLISHED 10 Jun 2025
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.158066.3
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Trends in Smart Restaurant Research: Bibliometric Review and Research Agenda
[version 3; peer review: 1 approved, 1 approved with reservations, 1 not approved]
Alejandro Valencia-Arias, Sebastián Cardona-Acevedo, Ezequiel Martínez Rojas, Juana Ramírez Dávila, Paula Rodriguez-Correa, Lucia Palacios-Moya, Renata Teodori de la Puente, Erica Agudelo-Ceballos, Martha Benjumea-Arias
Peer Reviewers Rainer Alt and Gräser Gräser; Li Ding; Mingchen Li
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 10 Jun 2025
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.165259.1
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The Notions of Fuzzy Set on Pseudo Quasi Ordered Residuated Systems
[version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]
Yeshiwas Mebrat Gubena, Teferi Getachew Alemayehu
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PUBLISHED 06 Jun 2025
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.149829.2
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Quantification of 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 in dried blood spots as compared to plasma among Indian adults
[version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 1 approved with reservations]
Ashwini V Shete, Jyoti Sawant, Rajani Bagul, Ujjwala Ghule, Sarang S. Saluke, Christopher R. Sudfeld
Peer Reviewers Christopher T Sempos; Katarzyna Dzik
  • Funder
  • National Institute on Aging
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 06 Jun 2025
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.164241.1
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OnabotulinumtoxinA blockade of the sphenopalatine ganglion in treatment-resistant chronic migraine (MiBlock): rationale, design and study protocol for a multi-centre, investigator initiated, randomised, quadruple-blinded placebo-controlled trial.
[version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]
Tore Wergeland, Melanie Simpson, Irina Aschehoug, Lise Øie, Sozaburo Hara, Einar Tobias Vassbø Skalstad, Øyvind Salvesen, Erling Tronvik, Daniel Bratbak
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  • the Norwegian National Program for Clinical Therapy Research, KLINBEFORSK
PUBLISHED 06 Jun 2025
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.162460.1
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Prevalence of Candida albicans in the oral cavity of Beta Thalassemia Major and Thalassemia Minor Patients
[version 1; peer review: 1 approved]
Saba Sami Abd Al Wahab, Maha Adel Mahmood
Peer Reviewers Anwer Faisal
PUBLISHED 03 Jun 2025
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.154675.2
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SCUBA implements a storage format-agnostic API for single-cell data access in R
[version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 1 approved with reservations, 1 not approved]
William M. Showers, Jairav Desai, Krysta L. Engel, Clayton Smith, Craig T. Jordan, Austin E. Gillen
Peer Reviewers Huamei Li; Kristian Ullrich; Damian Panas and Marcin Tabaka
  • Funders
  • National Institutes of Health
  • U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
LATEST VERSION PUBLISHED 02 Jun 2025
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