Wellcome Open Research

Bioethics in the spotlight: the Epidemic Ethics Collection and the GLIDE Gateway

Bioethics is an increasingly important area that should not be overlooked. Wellcome Open Research has launched the Epidemic Ethics Collection and the Global Infectious Disease Ethics Gateway supporting researchers in the field.

Read on to learn about bioethics and how the Platform aids the research community through its newly launched dedicated content hubs.

Publishing over 100 genomes: an important milestone for the Tree of Life programme

We have published our first 100 genomes as part of the Tree of Life programme! This blog shares key details of the project and highlights a few examples of the latest genomic research featured in the Gateway.

Tell the full story of your mental health research

F1000’s Senior Associate Publisher, Sheridan Willis, introduces mental health researchers to the open access publishing platform, Wellcome Open Research.

Antibiotics in Africa: Using storytelling and picture drawing for public engagement

In this conversation with Bernard Appiah (Syracuse University), we discuss the use of storytelling and picture drawing as public engagement approaches to improve knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance among schoolchildren in Ghana.

Wellcome Open Research: Highlights from 5 years of publishing

2021 marked another successful year for Wellcome Open Research. In this blog, Hannah Hope, Open Research Lead at Wellcome Trust, provides an overview of the Platform’s publishing activity over the past year, and the initiatives we plan to implement in 2022.

Calling all genomics researchers: support the Tree of Life programme as a community reviewer

We are inviting the global genomics community to support the Tree of Life programme by assessing Genome Notes published in the Tree of Life Gateway on Wellcome Open Research.

In this blog, Rebecca Grant explains how PhD students, Early Career Researchers (ECRs), and all genomics experts can get involved in this exciting initiative.

We need an interdisciplinary approach to solve real world problems: a case study from the COVID-19 pandemic

In this blog, Trisha Greenhalgh, Mustafa Ozbilgin, and Damien Contandriopoulos consider how a lack of interdisciplinarity impacted the public health discourse and policy around the transmission of COVID-19. Keep reading to learn more about their fascinating Research Article on Wellcome Open Research.

Tracking COVID-19 variants: monitoring the evolution of the virus

How can we track new variants of COVID-19 as they emerge? In this blog, Áine O’Toole and Verity Hill (University of Edinburgh) introduce ‘grinch’ – a new Software Tool which tracks the international spread of new variants of the virus through automated daily reports.