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PLOS ONE 10 Year Anniversary: Datasets

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By sharing their underlying data and related metadata, authors increase the value and impact of their research. Since its inception, PLOS ONE has encouraged data sharing, and in 2014, in keeping with our commitment to openness, reproducibility and scientific progress, the journal began requiring authors to make their data publicly available whenever possible and including a data availability statement at the top of each paper. This collection—assembled by PLOS ONE Senior Editor Meghan Byrne in collaboration with members of the PLOS ONE Editorial Staff, the PLOS ONE Editorial Board and the PLOS-wide Data Advisory Board—highlights studies with noteworthy datasets, across a variety of disciplines, published in PLOS ONE over the last 10 years.

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Paleontology
Developmental Biology
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    10.1371/journal.pone.0002264
    PLOS ONE A Low Dose of Dietary Resveratrol Partially Mimics Caloric Restriction and Retards Aging Parameters in Mice
    June 4, 2008 Jamie L. Barger, Tsuyoshi Kayo, James M. Vann, Edward B. Arias, Jelai Wang, Timothy A. Hacker, Ying Wang, Daniel Raederstorff, Jason D. Morrow, Christiaan Leeuwenburgh, David B. Allison, Kurt W. Saupe, Gregory D. Cartee, Richard Weindruch, Tomas A. Prolla
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    March 31, 2017 This 2008 study is one that Marc Robinson-Rechavi’s group references in their research. The authors used mice to ask whether a compound found in red wine has similarly beneficial effects on health as caloric restriction. Data from their study are publicly available in the NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus, and the paper has been cited almost 400 times.
Physiology
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    10.1371/journal.pone.0016957
    PLOS ONE The Human Serum Metabolome
    February 16, 2011 Nikolaos Psychogios, David D. Hau, Jun Peng, An Chi Guo, Rupasri Mandal, Souhaila Bouatra, Igor Sinelnikov, Ramanarayan Krishnamurthy, Roman Eisner, Bijaya Gautam, Nelson Young, Jianguo Xia, Craig Knox, Edison Dong, Paul Huang, Zsuzsanna Hollander, Theresa L. Pedersen, Steven R. Smith, Fiona Bamforth, Russ Greiner, Bruce McManus, John W. Newman, Theodore Goodfriend, David S. Wishart
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    March 31, 2017 Psychogios et al. assembled a collection of over 4,500 small molecule metabolites found in human serum. The authors made the dataset freely available at www.serummetabolome.ca and the paper has been cited over 450 times.
Computational Biology
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    10.1371/journal.pone.0080278
    PLOS ONE Quantifying Reproducibility in Computational Biology: The Case of the Tuberculosis Drugome
    November 27, 2013 Daniel Garijo, Sarah Kinnings, Li Xie, Lei Xie, Yinliang Zhang, Philip E. Bourne, Yolanda Gil
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    March 31, 2017 In this paper investigating the reproducibility of a previously published computational biology study, the authors (one of whom is Data Advisory Board member Phil Bourne) made all the data, software and workflows fully available, and they included a detailed description of the workflows in the Supporting Information files, which are also available in figshare.
Information Sciences
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    10.1371/journal.pone.0021101
    PLOS ONE Data Sharing by Scientists: Practices and Perceptions
    June 29, 2011 Carol Tenopir, Suzie Allard, Kimberly Douglass, Arsev Umur Aydinoglu, Lei Wu, Eleanor Read, Maribeth Manoff, Mike Frame
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    EveryONE Blog Insight into this selection by Jake Carlson
    March 31, 2017 “Tenopir and her co-authors conducted a survey developed by DataONE to understand the perceptions and practices of researchers across the United States on sharing their research data. Prior to this, analysis of data management, sharing and curation practices had largely been conducted at an institutional level. By making their data available to others the authors have provided the data librarian and curation communities a means to benchmark the progress made in making data sharing a normative part of scholarship.”
Economic Geography
Bioinformatics
Animal Science and Welfare
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    PLOS Epidemiological Investigations of North American Zoo Elephant Welfare
    July 14, 2016 A PLOS ONE Collection
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    EveryONE Blog Insight into this selection by the Staff Editors
    March 31, 2017 The papers in this collection show how it can be possible to share aggregated data when the individual-level data are sensitive and therefore subject to restrictions. For reasons relating to protection of the facilities and animals included in this study, access restrictions apply to the individual-level data underlying the findings, but the authors were able to share a valuable dataset of de-identified, population-level data that underlies nine papers published in PLOS ONE.
Applied Psychology
Neurology
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    10.1371/journal.pone.0173372.g001
    PLOS ONE Prediction and classification of Alzheimer disease based on quantification of MRI deformation
    March 6, 2017 Xiaojing Long, Lifang Chen, Chunxiang Jiang, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative , Lijuan Zhang
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    EveryONE Blog Insight into this selection by Gregory Petsko
    March 31, 2017 “Although its impressive accuracy (>95% in differentiating mild AD from healthy elderly) is still not high enough to make it useful in younger populations where the prevalence of the disease is less than 10%, the fact that MRI, a widely-available technology that is much cheaper to employ than PET scanning, could be a tool for predicting and classifying Alzheimer’s disease is an important step towards a cost-effective method that is accurate enough to avoid significant false-positives.”
Conservation Science
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    10.1371/journal.pone.0145064
    PLOS ONE Patterns of Vertebrate Diversity and Protection in Brazil
    December 17, 2015 Clinton N. Jenkins, Maria Alice S. Alves, Alexandre Uezu, Mariana M. Vale
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    March 31, 2017 The authors analyzed the diversity of birds, mammals, and amphibians in Brazil and the effects of efforts to protect these species. They deposited their data to Dryad and provided GIS-ready datasets on a dedicated website called http://biodiversitymapping.org.
Clinical Trials
Neuroscience
Marine Science
Meta-Research on Data Sharing
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