It is considered in some quarters that hypothesis‐driven methods are the only valuable,
reliable or significant means of scientific advance. Data‐driven or 'inductive'advances in …

The scientific method has been guiding biological research for a long time. It not only
prescribes the order and types of activities that give a scientific study validity and a stamp of …

Debates about the emergence, significance and long-term impact of 'big data'have become
ubiquitous across most scientific disciplines. Thanks to new technologies for generating and …

In the early 1600s, Galileo Galilei turned a telescope toward Jupiter. In his log book each
night, he drew to-scale schematic diagrams of Jupiter and some oddly moving points of light …

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Scientific discovery is the process or product of successful scientific inquiry. Objects of
discovery can be things, events, processes, causes, and properties as well as theories and …

Bioinformatics for Beginners: Genes, Genomes, Molecular Evolution, Databases and
Analytical Tools provides a coherent and friendly treatment of bioinformatics for any student …

How do scientists think and reason? What are the psychological processes involved in
scientific reasoning and discovery? These questions have been the focus of a large body of …

Despite much criticism, black-or-white null-hypothesis significance testing with an arbitrary P-
value cutoff still is the standard way to report scientific findings. One obstacle to progress is …

The fundamental principles of the scientific method are essential for enhancing perspective,
increasing productivity, and stimulating innovation. These principles include deductive and …