Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
Two laboratories independently producing the same Western-blot band pattern from the same antibody lot.
- Is an instance
A field protocol producing comparable soil microbiome measurements across two seasons.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
Re-running the same statistical analysis on the same data file.
- Not an instance
A literature review.
Editorial commentary
Empirical reproducibility addresses the non-computational portion of research: instruments, reagents, sample preparation, environmental conditions, and human-factor variability. It is the principal concern of bench-science reproducibility initiatives such as the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology.
References
- Goodman, Fanelli, Ioannidis (Science Translational Medicine, 2016); Errington et al., Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology overview (eLife, 2021).
Also known as
wet-lab reproducibility · experimental reproducibility
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