title: Criteria for biological reproducibility: what does "n" mean?
abstract: This Focus tackles the issue of technical versus biological replicates, what constitutes appropriate biological replicates, and appropriate statistical analysis for data with small sample sizes.
authors: Biomedical Engineering and the Center for Biological Systems Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA. myaffe@mit.edu knaegle@wustl.edu.
authors: Kristen
authors: K
authors: Naegle
authors: Chief Scientific Editor of Science Signaling, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1200 New York Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20005, USA.
authors: Nancy R
authors: NR
authors: Gough
authors: David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, The Broad Institute, and the Departments of Biology and Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Editor, Science Signaling, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1200 New York Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20005, USA. myaffe@mit.edu knaegle@wustl.edu.
authors: Michael B
authors: MB
authors: Yaffe
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D035843:Biomedical Research; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D015203:Reproducibility of Results