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ArticleJournal of cheminformatics2019

A path to next-generation reproducibility in cheminformatics.

Robert D Clark

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Article in Journal of cheminformatics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Diversifying cheminformatics.Journal of cheminformatics · 2022
    Article
  3. Towards reproducible computational drug discovery.Journal of cheminformatics · 2020
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Robert D ClarkSimulations Plus, Inc, 42505 10th Street West, Lancaster, CA, 93534, USA. bob@simulations-plus.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9509-8132

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Currently, the submission guidelines for the Journal of Cheminformatics say it will "only publish research or software that is entirely reproducible by third parties." They go on to specify that being reproducible means that anything essential to the conclusion of the paper be freely accessible and states that source code must be provided. I submit that this definition of reproducibility is too narrow-that a cheminformatics method can only truly be replicated by reimplementing it from a detailed, step-by-step high-level description to determine how reliably the algorithm per se does what it is intended to do.

Indexed as

Algorithm validationConsilienceReimplementationReplicabilityReproducibilityTriangulation

Identifiers

PMID33430934
PMCPMC6792229

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Registered trials

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