The Transparency and Reproducibility Committee of the Basic and Translational Section of The International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (IUPHAR) is proud to announce The Experimental Design Assistant webinar.
There is growing concern about the reliability of biomedical research results. Experimental design flaws, inappropriate analysis methods, and incomplete reporting have all contributed to poor reproducibility. The NC3Rs has developed resources to assist researchers in designing more robust experiments, selecting the appropriate analysis method and reporting the experiment thoroughly. One such resource is the Experimental Design Assistant (EDA; https://eda.nc3rs.org.uk). The EDA is a free online software with a supporting website to help researchers design more robust in vivo experiments.
This webinar, presented by Dr. Esther Pearl, Program Manager for the UK’s NC3R, will cover key strategies to improve experimental design and highlight how the EDA can help researchers implement these. It will also include a short live demonstration on how to use the EDA to design an experiment. For example, the EDA can analyse your experimental design and suggest changes or highlight the implications of your specific experimental design choices, enabling you to make informed choices. Optimized experimental plans can then be communicated by exporting a PDF summarizing key experimental design information from the EDA or sharing your experimental plan via a URL. This can make clearly communicating experimental plans with colleagues, funders, and ethical review bodies easier, enhancing opportunities for collaboration, feedback, and transparent reporting of your in vivo experiments.
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