Our vision Open Plant Pathology (OPP) fosters a diverse community culture that values openness, transparency and reproducibility of scientific research data and methods applied to plant pathological research and education
Collaborative coding Coding together and developing new open source tools https://github.com/openplantpathology - R Packages (hagis, epifitter) - Research compendia (HTML Webpage RStudio project and R Package Templates) - Interactive databases (FGSCdb)
Science dissemination (during quarantine) Scheduling of FREE online scientific talks Virtual Seminars Live broadcast + video recording of scientific seminars in the field of Plant Pathology. Interaction with the speakers via live chat and in a Slack channel for 24 h after the talk.
Reproducibility Editorship Supporting journals to promote adoption of open practices Brazilian Phytopathological Society Journal In 2020, a Reproducibility Team was created to support authors, reviews and editors to value data and code sharing for review and public release in permanent repositories
Sparks et al. (2023) No data Upon request Paywalled Free access ~ 10% share data openly (most molecular) How are data/codes shared? Computational methods
For group discussion … 1. Why (benefits) embrace open science practices? 2. What are the barriers for adopting open science? 3. What has helped you to make your research more open? 4. What should OPP/plant pathology community do to help accelerate the change?