Semi-automated fact-checking of nucleotide sequence reagents in biomedical research publications: The Seek & Blastn tool

Retraction note to: Lentivirus-Mediated Short-Hairpin RNA Targeting Protein Phosphatase 4 Regulatory Subunit 1 Inhibits Growth in Breast Cancer

(2018) Yuying Qi et al.   Journal of Breast Cancer

Expression of concern: Short hairpin RNA (shRNA) of type 2 interleukin-1 receptor (IL1R2) inhibits the proliferation of human osteosarcoma U-2 OS cells

(2018) Xiwei Liu et al.   MEDICAL ONCOLOGY

Expression of Concern: Knockdown of eIF3d inhibits cell proliferation through G2/M phase arrest in non-small cell lung cancer

(2018) Zhifeng Lin et al.   MEDICAL ONCOLOGY

Knockdown of immature colon carcinoma transcript-I inhibits proliferation of glioblastoma multiforme cells through Gap 2/mitotic phase arrest [Expression of concern]

(2018) Rong Xie et al.   OncoTargets and Therapy

Retraction notice to: Myosin VI contributes to malignant proliferation of human glioma cells

(2017) Rong Xu et al.   KOREAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY & PHARMACOLOGY

The importance of being earnest in post-publication review: scientific fraud and the scourges of anonymity and excuses

(2017) J Stebbing et al.   ONCOGENE

SUN1 silencing inhibits cell growth through G0/G1 phase arrest in lung adenocarcinoma [Retraction]

(2017) Weiyi Huang et al.   OncoTargets and Therapy

Retracted: Knockdown of tumor protein D52-like 2 induces cell growth inhibition and apoptosis in oral squamous cell carcinoma

(2016) Yongchun He et al.   CELL BIOLOGY INTERNATIONAL

Clinical trial IDs need to be validated prior to publication because hundreds of invalid National Clinical Trial Identifications are regularly entering MEDLINE

(2016) Jonathan D Wren   Clinical Trials

Reproducibility: A tragedy of errors

(2016) David B. Allison et al.   NATURE

Striking similarities between publications from China describing single gene knockdown experiments in human cancer cell lines

(2016) Jennifer A. Byrne et al.   SCIENTOMETRICS

The Markyt visualisation, prediction and benchmark platform for chemical and gene entity recognition at BioCreative/CHEMDNER challenge

(2016) Martin Pérez-Pérez et al.   Database-The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation

Pressing needs of biomedical text mining in biocuration and beyond: opportunities and challenges

(2016) Ayush Singhal et al.   Database-The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation

Authentication: A Standard Problem or a Problem of Standards?

(2016) Amanda Capes-Davis et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The Resource Identification Initiative: A cultural shift in publishing

(2015) Anita Bandrowski et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

The Economics of Reproducibility in Preclinical Research

(2015) Leonard P. Freedman et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Improved reproducibility by assuring confidence in measurements in biomedical research

(2014) Anne L Plant et al.   NATURE METHODS

Patterns of text reuse in a scientific corpus

(2014) Daniel T. Citron et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

tmVar: a text mining approach for extracting sequence variants in biomedical literature

(2013) C.-H. Wei et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

The State of RT-Quantitative PCR: Firsthand Observations of Implementation of Minimum Information for the Publication of Quantitative Real-Time PCR Experiments (MIQE)

(2013) Sean C. Taylor et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Duplicate and fake publications in the scientific literature: how many SCIgen papers in computer science?

(2012) Cyril Labbé et al.   SCIENTOMETRICS

PrimerBank: a PCR primer database for quantitative gene expression analysis, 2012 update

(2011) X. Wang et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Fraud or flawed: adverse impact of fabricated or poor quality research

(2010) R. A. Moore et al.   ANAESTHESIA

The MIQE Guidelines: Minimum Information for Publication of Quantitative Real-Time PCR Experiments

(2009) S. A. Bustin et al.   CLINICAL CHEMISTRY

The Effect of Primer-Template Mismatches on the Detection and Quantification of Nucleic Acids Using the 5′ Nuclease Assay

(2009) Ralph Stadhouders et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS

How Many Scientists Fabricate and Falsify Research? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Survey Data

(2009) Daniele Fanelli   PLoS One

Linking genes to literature: text mining, information extraction, and retrieval applications for biology

(2008) Martin Krallinger et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY