Meta-Research: understudied genes are lost in a leaky pipeline between genome-wide assays and reporting of results
Reese A. K. Richardson, Heliodoro Tejedor Navarro, Luı́s A. Nunes Amaral, Thomas Stoeger
The paper identifies a bias in gene selection between -omics experiments and publication, introduces a tool to find understudied genes, and demonstrates its application in vertebrate aging research.