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<span class=SpellE><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:108%'>SciScore</span></span><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;line-height:108%'>: 6 </span><span style='color:blue'>What's this?</span>
Document Identifier: 3879
Below you will find two tables showing the results of <span
class=SpellE>SciScore</span>. Your score is calculated based on adherence to
guidelines for scientific rigor (Table 1) and identification of key biological
resources (Table 2). Points are given when <span class=SpellE>SciScore</span>
detects appropriate information in the text. Details on each criteria and
recommendations on how to improve the score are appended to the bottom of this
report.
Table 1: Rigor Adherence Table
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<u style='text-underline:black'>Institutional
Review Board Statement</u>
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<span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%'>IRB: Ethics
approval was obtained from the Ethics Committee of Guangzhou Women and
Children’s Medical Center and written informed consents were obtained from
the parents of the included children.</span>
</td>
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<span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%'>Consent:
Ethics approval was obtained from the Ethics Committee of Guangzhou Women and
Children’s Medical Center and written informed consents were obtained from
the parents of the included children.</span>
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<u style='text-underline:black'>Randomization</u>
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<span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%'>not
detected.</span>
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<u style='text-underline:black'>Blinding</u>
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<span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%'>not
detected.</span>
</td>
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<u style='text-underline:black'>Power
Analysis</u>
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<span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%'>not
detected.</span>
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<u style='text-underline:black'>Sex as a
biological variable</u>
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<span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%'>not
detected.</span>
</td>
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</table>
Table 2: Key Resources Table
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Your Sentences
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REAGENT
or
RESOURCE
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SOURCE
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IDENTIFIER
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<o:p> </o:p>
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<u style='text-underline:black'>Software
and Algorithms</u>
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<o:p> </o:p>
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height:53.8pt'>
<span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%'>Microsoft
Excel <span class=GramE>( MS</span> Excel 2013 ,</span>
<span class=GramE><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:
107%'>v.15.0 )</span></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%'>
was used for data collection of the epidemiological and clinical information
.</span>
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none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;
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mso-border-top-alt:1.0pt;mso-border-left-alt:.25pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:
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solid;padding:2.15pt 5.75pt 2.15pt .5pt;height:53.8pt'>
<span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%'>Microsoft Excel</span>
</td>
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none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;
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mso-border-top-alt:1.0pt;mso-border-left-alt:.25pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:
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<o:p> </o:p>
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<span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;color:gray'>Suggestion: (Microsoft
Excel,</span>
<span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;color:gray'>RRID:SCR_016137)</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;color:black;text-decoration:none;
text-underline:none'>(</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;color:blue'> link</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%'>)</span>
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font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:
AR-SA'><br clear=all style='mso-special-character:line-break;page-break-before:
always'>
</span>
<o:p> </o:p>
Other Entities Detected
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1.0pt;mso-border-right-alt:.25pt;mso-border-color-alt:black;mso-border-style-alt:
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Your Sentences
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Recognized Entity
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Oligonucleotides
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height:40.6pt'>
<span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%'>Forward
primer</span>
<span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%'>CCCTGTGGGTTTTACACTTAA;
Reverse primer ACGATTGTGCATCAGCTGA;</span>
</td>
<td width=397 valign=bottom style='width:297.65pt;border-top:none;border-left:
none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;
mso-border-top-alt:solid black 1.0pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid black .25pt;
mso-border-top-alt:1.0pt;mso-border-left-alt:.25pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:
1.0pt;mso-border-right-alt:.25pt;mso-border-color-alt:black;mso-border-style-alt:
solid;padding:2.15pt 2.7pt 2.15pt .5pt;height:40.6pt'>
<span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%'>CCCTGTGGGTTTTACACTTAA</span>
</td>
</tr>
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<td width=265 valign=top style='width:198.45pt;border:solid black 1.0pt;
border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid black 1.0pt;mso-border-top-alt:1.0pt;
mso-border-left-alt:.25pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:1.0pt;mso-border-right-alt:
.25pt;mso-border-color-alt:black;mso-border-style-alt:solid;padding:2.15pt 2.7pt 2.15pt .5pt;
height:40.6pt'>
<span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%'>The probe
5#-VIC-</span>
<span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%'>CCGTCTGCGGTATGTGG</span>
<span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%'>AAAGGTTATGG-BHQ1-3# Target 2 <span
class=GramE>( N</span>):</span>
</td>
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none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;
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mso-border-top-alt:1.0pt;mso-border-left-alt:.25pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:
1.0pt;mso-border-right-alt:.25pt;mso-border-color-alt:black;mso-border-style-alt:
solid;padding:2.15pt 2.7pt 2.15pt .5pt;height:40.6pt'>
<span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%'>5#-VIC-CCGTCTGCGGTATGTGG
AAAGGTTATGG-</span>
<span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%'>BHQ1-3#</span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style='mso-yfti-irow:4;height:53.8pt'>
<td width=265 valign=top style='width:198.45pt;border:solid black 1.0pt;
border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid black 1.0pt;mso-border-top-alt:1.0pt;
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height:53.8pt'>
<span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%'>Forward
primer</span>
<span class=GramE><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:
107%'>GGGGAACTTCTCCTGCTAGAAT;</span></span>
<span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%'>Reverse
primer</span>
<span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%'>CAGACATTTTGCTCTCAAGCTG;</span>
</td>
<td width=397 valign=bottom style='width:297.65pt;border-top:none;border-left:
none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;
mso-border-top-alt:solid black 1.0pt;mso-border-left-alt:solid black .25pt;
mso-border-top-alt:1.0pt;mso-border-left-alt:.25pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:
1.0pt;mso-border-right-alt:.25pt;mso-border-color-alt:black;mso-border-style-alt:
solid;padding:2.15pt 2.7pt 2.15pt .5pt;height:53.8pt'>
<span
style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%'>GGGGAACTTCTCCTGCTAGAAT</span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style='mso-yfti-irow:5;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes;height:40.6pt'>
<td width=265 valign=top style='width:198.45pt;border:solid black 1.0pt;
border-top:none;mso-border-top-alt:solid black 1.0pt;mso-border-top-alt:1.0pt;
mso-border-left-alt:.25pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:1.0pt;mso-border-right-alt:
.25pt;mso-border-color-alt:black;mso-border-style-alt:solid;padding:2.15pt 2.7pt 2.15pt .5pt;
height:40.6pt'>
<span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%'>The probe
5#-FAM-</span>
<span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%'>TTGCTGCTGCTTGACAGATT-TAM</span>
<span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%'>RA-3<span
class=GramE># .</span></span>
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<span class=SpellE>SciScore</span> is an <u
style='text-underline:black'>automated tool</u> that is designed to assist
expert reviewers by finding and presenting formulaic information scattered
throughout a paper in a standard, easy to digest format. <span class=SpellE>SciScore</span>
is not a substitute for expert review. <span class=SpellE>SciScore</span>
checks for the presence and correctness of RRIDs (research resource
identifiers) in the <span class=GramE>manuscript, and</span> detects sentences
that appear to be missing RRIDs. <span class=SpellE>SciScore</span> also checks
to make sure that rigor criteria are addressed by authors. It does this by
detecting sentences that discuss criteria such as blinding or power analysis. <span
class=SpellE>SciScore</span> does not guarantee that the rigor criteria that it
detects are appropriate for the <span class=GramE>particular study</span>.
Instead it assists authors, editors, and reviewers by drawing attention to
sections of the manuscript that contain or should contain various rigor
criteria and key resources.
<u style='text-underline:
black'>Rigor Table:</u>
In the rigor table (table 1 of this report), <span
class=SpellE>SciScore</span> highlights sentences that include various elements
of rigor as described by <span class=SpellE>Hackam</span> and <span
class=SpellE>Redelmeier</span> in <span style='color:blue'>2006</span>,
and by van der Warp and colleagues in <span style='color:blue'>2010</span>.
<span class=SpellE>SciScore</span> was trained using sentences from thousands
of published papers that were tagged by expert curators to indicate that the
sentence described blinding (either during the experiment or during data
analysis), group selection criteria such as how subjects were randomized, power
analysis (statistical test), or sex as a biological variable. If a cell line is
detected then <span class=SpellE>SciScore</span> ‘expects’ that cell line
authentication criteria are described, a cell line is not detected this section
of the table will not be visible or scored. When a criterion is expected, but a
sentence that addresses the criterion is not detected by <span class=SpellE>SciScore</span>,
the statement “Not Detected” is given. It is possible that a criterion is not
necessary for a <span class=GramE>particular manuscript</span> or that <span
class=SpellE>SciScore</span>, an automated tool, makes a mistake. If <span
class=SpellE>SciScore</span> makes substantial mistakes with your manuscript,
please <span style='color:
blue'>contact us </span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>to help us
learn from our mistakes. Please see the <span style='color:blue'>FAQ </span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>for more details.
<u style='text-underline:
black'>Scoring for Rigor Table (total 5 points):</u>
The rigor table makes up 5 points of the total score. Those
five points are split evenly among the expected rigor criteria, each criterion
being worth five divided by the number of rows in the table points. Scores are
rounded to the nearest whole number. For each sentence that describes an
expected rigor criterion, such as blinding, <span class=SpellE>SciScore</span>
adds the fractional number of points for that criterion, and if it is unable to
find a statement on blinding then this section is labeled "Not
Detected" and receives a score of 0. To improve detection, please make
sure that your language is clear and written in standard English.
<u style='text-underline:
black'>Key Resources Table</u>
The key resources table (table 2 of this report), contains
two types of things that are detected automatically by <span class=SpellE>SciScore</span>:
<span
style='mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span>RRIDs,
research resource identifiers
<span
style='mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span>Sentences
that “should” have RRIDs
RRIDs, are unique identifiers for reagents and other
resources that largely overlap those resources that have been labeled as
particularly problematic by the National Institutes of Health in recent changes
to grant review criteria, please see <span
style='color:blue'>"key biological resources"</span>, e.g.,
antibodies, cell lines and transgenic organisms. The RRID initiative is led by
community repositories that provide persistent unique identifiers to their
resources, such as transgenic mice, salamanders, antibodies, cell lines,
plasmids and software projects such as statistical software. RRIDs are
described in a primer by Bandrowski and Martone in<span style='color:blue'>2016</span>.
RRIDs are unique numbers that resolve to a particular
database record, for example the <span class=GramE>RRID:CVCL</span>_0063
resolves to this record for a cell line:
<span style='color:blue'>https://web.expasy.org/cellosaurus/CVCL_0063</span>
The information in that database is structured and
curated by <span class=SpellE>Cellosaurus</span> staff, the authority for cell
lines. If authors use this RRID then <span class=SpellE>SciScore</span> will
ask the database about the number. Once an RRID is found in the database, <span
class=SpellE>SciScore</span> attempts to match text in the sentence with the
database record, most often it attempts to find the name of the resource, in
this case HEK293T, and information about the company or catalog number to
verify that authors have put the right RRID in the sentence. If a typo is made
by authors, that renders the RRID not valid, the RRID column will be blank
(table 3 will contain the RRID in the unresolved RRID column in red). If an
RRID was submitted to the authority by authors, it often takes a week or more
to become available in the resolver database, thus exercise caution in the
interpretation of the <span class=SpellE>SciScore</span> report in cases of
newly minted RRIDs.
Sentences that should have RRIDs are detected by <span
class=SpellE>SciScore</span>, by looking for patterns in a sentence that are <span
class=GramE>similar to</span> how cell lines or antibodies are described in
published papers. A sentence that describes one or more antibodies may be
detected by <span class=SpellE>SciScore</span> and this will be placed into the
table without a corresponding RRID. <span class=SpellE>SciScore</span> will
attempt to find the name(s) and catalog numbers of the resource. In cases where
the tool is relatively confident, it will suggest an RRID. The suggested RRID
appears in gray with a link to the RRID website where authors must confirm that the RRID found by <span class=SpellE>SciScore</span>
is the correct RRID.
<u style='text-underline:
black'>Note of caution:</u>
Please verify all RRID suggestions, only the author can
know whether suggestions are correct.
<u style='text-underline:
black'>Scoring for Resources Table (total 5 points):</u>
Each resource that is detected is scored, and the total is
5 points, with scores rounded to the nearest whole number. For each RRID
detected, points are awarded, but for each sentence that is detected that does
not contain an RRID, points are not awarded. If <span class=SpellE>SciScore</span>
detects catalog numbers or relatively unambiguous resources, partial points are
awarded. For each RRID that does not resolve properly only partial points are
also awarded. Therefore, the way to maximize the points from this section is to
add RRIDs, and proper citations that include vendor names, catalog numbers, lot
and version numbers into the methods section of the manuscript.
<u style='text-underline:
black'>Incorrect sentences:</u>
<span class=SpellE>SciScore</span> is a text analysis tool,
and it is therefore susceptible to making two types of errors, false positives
or false negatives.
False <span
class=SpellE><span class=GramE>negatives:<span style='font-weight:normal'>The</span></span></span>
most common error occurs when the algorithm fails to detect a sentence that
contains an antibody or another resource. False negatives generally occur
either because the sentence is complex or in a less common syntax pattern.
Generally simple sentences in clear standard English are simpler to process and
result in few false negatives. If a truly complex sentence structure is
required to describe reagents, a table may help not only <span class=SpellE>SciScore</span>,
but also human readers. If an RRID is detected in a sentence, <span
class=SpellE>SciScore</span> will be triggered to <span class=GramE>take a look</span>
at the sentence, which may have been skipped otherwise.
False positives:
This type of error includes cases where a sentence does not contain an
antibody, but the algorithm asserts that this sentence does have an antibody.
If many resources are used and all have RRIDs, a single false positive will not
reduce the score substantially. But if only 1-2 resources are used, then a
false positive can reduce your <span class=SpellE>SciScore</span> needlessly.
False positives are most often seen in the tools portion of table 2, as the
algorithm detects company names, where it should not. We try to minimize these
false positives using several strategies. If this impacts your score, please
contact our team (http:// sciscore.com) and include the sentence where <span
class=SpellE>SciScore</span> made the error. While we can't fix the score, we
can learn from our mistakes.
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