Research support materials

This page is intended to be a collection of links and resources that may be useful at some time during a research career. They are enlisted in no special order as I passed by them.

General purpose or advice

• A manifesto for reproducible science
• How to pick a graduate advisor by Ben A. Barres
• Ten easy ways to fail a Ph.D.
• Thesis projects: A Guide for Students in Computer Science and Information Systems
• Computational science: ...Error ...why scientific programming does not compute
• Is medical science built on shaky foundations?
• The Problem of Reproducibility by Darrel Ince
• A quick guide to organizing computational biology projects
• Software Development for Computational Neuroscience: checklist of good practices
• San Francisco Edit guidelines on scientific publication
• Glossary of Machine Learning Terms
• Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught by Gian-Carlo Rota
• Tomorrow's professor mailing list: Preparing for Academic Careers in Science and Engineering
• The Matthew Effect in Science - The reward and communication systems of science are considered by Robert K. Merton
• Ten Simple Rules for Reducing Overoptimistic Reporting in Methodological Computational Research by Anne-Laure Boulesteix

Reviewer profile

• How to evaluate a research communication: The Task of the Referee
• How NOT to review a paper. The tools and techniques of the adversarial reviewer
• The natural selection of bad science - How poor research design and data analysis encourage false-positive findings

Data and datasets

• NeuroMorpho.Org, digital reconstructions of axonal and dendritic arbors
• Open Data Commons, legal tools to help you provide and use open data
• TunedIT, data mining challenges, competitions and contests
• UCI Irvine Machine Learning Repository, 197 classical datasets from different areas
• Machine learning data set repository, mldata.org: upload, search, exchange
• Gene Expression Omnibus from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
• Spanish Centre of Psychological Research, data files of studies sinc