Tag Archives: Biology Direct

Peer review system, open access, and everything else

Here are a few links to interesting posts: Who’s afraid of peer review? Opinion on the link above: I confess, I wrote the Arsenic DNA paper to expose flaws in peer-review at subscription based journals “Open access spam” and how journals … Continue reading

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On the biological insight

I claim that I am a researcher in mathematical biology. By this I mostly understand studying biological problems by using the mathematical modeling method. Additionally, I am interested in analyzing properties of mathematical models arising in mathematical biology. I strongly … Continue reading

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Biology Direct paper

A new paper (a provisional pdf) appeared on the web site of Biology Direct journal, for which I wrote a review. I already mentioned about this journal: it has an unusual refereeing process — all the reviews are open, and if … Continue reading

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How not to analyze data

Approximately a month ago biologist Alexander Markov, who is the author of the book “Inception of complexity” (this is my translation of the Russian title “Рождение сложности”) and well known popularizer of modern theories of Evolutionary biology, presented in his … Continue reading

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