Scientific articles have traditionally been supported by the inclusion of supplementary data, also referred to as supporting information, designed to provide additional information necessary for understanding the principal points of the publication and support the conclusions presented in the article but which cannot be included in the paper itself due to space reasons or technical limitations. The inclusion and review of supplementary data is not without challenges, particularly when papers are supported by a large volume of analytical information. Preparation and formatting of the data ready for upload is a time consuming, error-prone process. Also, the data uploaded has traditionally been ‘dead’ data, (PDF, images or Word) which allows visualization but no interaction, interrogation or re-processing. Validation of results achieved would therefore require repetition of the processes described in the paper and reacquisition of the analytical data. Whilst this would be highly desirable, it is not often feasible. The last few years have seen a significant increase in calls for the inclusion, by the authors, of raw analytical data which support the paper’s conclusion, to allow reviewers and readers to verify the work of the authors, prevent fraud and identify errors. This talk aims to present an integrated system developed by the authors to facilitate the submission and review of supplementary information. The system includes: - Software automations which prepare and format supplementary information commonly provided. - Software automations which prepare the raw data for one-click submission. - A software tool, of free access to all reviewers and readers, which allows the reprocessing and reanalysis of raw data and includes the visualization, reprocessing and analysis capabilities implemented in the Mnova software. - Searching capabilities to leverage, in future research, the body of knowledge built by the submission of publications and supporting information.

Facilitating the inclusion of analytical raw data in the submission and review process

251st National Meeting (2016)

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