The MDAR (Materials Design Analysis Reporting) Framework for transparent reporting in the life sciences

doi:10.1073/pnas.2103238118

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. 2021 Apr 27;118(17):e2103238118.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.2103238118.

The MDAR (Materials Design Analysis Reporting) Framework for transparent reporting in the life sciences

Malcolm Macleod¹, Andrew M Collings², Chris Graf³, Veronique Kiermer⁴, David Mellor⁵, Sowmya Swaminathan⁶, Deborah Sweet⁷, Valda Vinson⁸

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¹ Edinburgh CAMARADES group, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9YL, United Kingdom; Malcolm.Macleod@ed.ac.uk mellor.david@gmail.com.
² eLife Sciences Publications Ltd., Cambridge CB4 1YG, United Kingdom.
³ John Wiley & Sons, Oxford OX4 2DQ, United Kingdom.
⁴ Public Library of Science, San Francisco, CA 94111.
⁵ Center for Open Science, Charlottesville, VA 22903; Malcolm.Macleod@ed.ac.uk mellor.david@gmail.com.
⁶ Nature Portfolio, Springer Nature, New York, NY 10004.
⁷ Cell Press, Cambridge, MA 02139.
⁸ Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC 20005.

PMID: 33893240
PMCID: PMC8092464
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2103238118

Editorial

The MDAR (Materials Design Analysis Reporting) Framework for transparent reporting in the life sciences

Malcolm Macleod et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021.

. 2021 Apr 27;118(17):e2103238118.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.2103238118.

Authors

Malcolm Macleod¹, Andrew M Collings², Chris Graf³, Veronique Kiermer⁴, David Mellor⁵, Sowmya Swaminathan⁶, Deborah Sweet⁷, Valda Vinson⁸

Affiliations

¹ Edinburgh CAMARADES group, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9YL, United Kingdom; Malcolm.Macleod@ed.ac.uk mellor.david@gmail.com.
² eLife Sciences Publications Ltd., Cambridge CB4 1YG, United Kingdom.
³ John Wiley & Sons, Oxford OX4 2DQ, United Kingdom.
⁴ Public Library of Science, San Francisco, CA 94111.
⁵ Center for Open Science, Charlottesville, VA 22903; Malcolm.Macleod@ed.ac.uk mellor.david@gmail.com.
⁶ Nature Portfolio, Springer Nature, New York, NY 10004.
⁷ Cell Press, Cambridge, MA 02139.
⁸ Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC 20005.

PMID: 33893240
PMCID: PMC8092464
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2103238118

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Competing interest statement: Several members of the working group are employed by publishing organizations and they acknowledge that their participation does not commit their organization to endorse the MDAR Framework. The authors received no specific funding for this initiative beyond in-kind support from their employers. S.S. is on the advisory board of the Research Square preprint platform.

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[1] eLife , Reproducibility in cancer biology: The challenges of replication. eLife 6, e23693 (2017). - PubMed

[2] eLife , Reproducibility in cancer biology: The challenges of replication. eLife 6, e23693 (2017). - PubMed

[3] Macleod M. R., et al. ., Risk of bias in reports of in vivo research: A focus for improvement. PLoS Biol. 13, e1002273 (2015). Correction in: PLoS Biol.13, e1002301 (2015). - PMC - PubMed

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[6] Iqbal S. A., Wallach J. D., Khoury M. J., Schully S. D., Ioannidis J. P. A., Reproducible research practices and transparency across the biomedical literature. PLoS Biol. 14, e1002333 (2016). - PMC - PubMed

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[9] Nature , Announcement: Reducing our irreproducibility. Nature 496, 398 (2013).

[10] Nature , Announcement: Reducing our irreproducibility. Nature 496, 398 (2013).

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