| AVS 66th International Symposium & Exhibition | |
| New Challenges to Reproducible Data and Analysis Focus Topic | Wednesday Sessions |
| Session RA+AS+BI-WeA |
| Session: | Addressing Reproducibility Challenges using Multi-Technique Approaches |
| Presenter: | Sally McArthur, Swinburne University of Technology and CSIRO. Australia |
| Correspondent: | Click to Email |
Our publications should serve as guides to repeat our experiments/analyses and reproduce the results; however, quite often we may find ourselves not able to do so. Over the past few years, there have been many papers and editorials that have shown that issues associated with Repeatability, Reproducibility, and Replicability impact almost all areas of science, and in an AVS-conducted survey, 65% of those responding indicated that they have seen or experienced significant reproducibility issues when they have sought to recreate experiments from the literature. It is clear that the increasing demands of complex research requiring use of multiple experimental and computational research methods is a central theme. The challenge in the Biointerface Science community is compounded by the inherent variability of biology. Working at the interface between the physical and life sciences, it is often difficult for us to have in-depth knowledge of the idiosyncrasies of the many techniques we use and we need to be aware of for our data interpretation. This talk will discuss approaches we are taking to tackle this issue within the Biointerface Science Community and the journal Biointerphases. We will look at how we can champion best practices, sharing our knowledge across our community, and seek to support researchers who are new to the field or want to explore new techniques to avoid the pitfalls and better understand both the opportunities and limitations of the techniques, methods, and approaches used in our multidisciplinary community.
Sally L McArthur, Editor Biointerphases