Authorship on papers is a perennially thorny issue that has pricked or prickled many an academic ego. In a rapidly expanding universe of joint first authors, multiple corresponding authors and shared senior authors, there is a constant need to define new author types to fully capture the complexity and describe the diversity of academic authorships. In a consolidated effort we here introduce and define the following alternative author types, altauthors, analogous to altmetrics.

In a recently published JPR paper, we describe how sets of tandem mass spectra can be compared to each other, without any prior knowledge about genomes, protein sequences or spectra. So what, you ask?

The Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, MDPI, is an Open-Access scientific publisher that have grown exponentially in recent years. Much of this growth comes in the form of Special Issues which, as it turns out, are not all that special.

Guest post by Ben Neely. In a recent lecture by Elisabeth Bik, the concept of "tortured phrases" came up. What are they, and can I make them?

Tomorrow, May 14, 2022, is the Grand Final of the 66th Eurovision Song Contest, with hundreds of millions of fans across Europe (from Azerbaijan to Australia) spending their Saturday evening watching one of the greatest spectacles on television.

Proteomics and Machine Learning is an explosive combination. Explosive in the sense of rapidly expanding and with far-reaching impact.