title: Publishing confirming and non-confirming data.
abstract: This editorial introduces the Preclinical Reproducibility and Robustness channel on F1000Research, which has been created to encourage and facilitate open and transparent publication and discussion of confirmatory and non-confirmatory studies in biomedical research.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Bruce
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Alberts
authors.affiliation: Discovery Research, Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kamb
keywords: Amgen; Reproducibility; Robustness