For a while now I’ve been telling my cofounders at DNAGeeks.com that we need to do a shirt about reading supplements.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you’re a heathen. Basically, if I blog about a paper, I try and read the supplements, because there’s a lot of good stuff (often the method or provenance of samples) in there that can’t be put into the paper proper. The restrictions of modern publishing are kind of crap, but they are what they are.
Also, supplements are usually a better guide to future research and directions if you look close. Better than the “discussion” section.
I’ve already bought one of the t-shirts. This is obviously a “niche” product, but who knows? I’m definitely going to wear it at ASHG 2018.
You should print a giant size print and present it at the ASHG poster session!
At first I didn’t know what you were referring to…
In chemistry we call this stuff “Supporting Information” (SI for short) and it generally has all the details on the synthesis and purification of the compounds described in a paper (which is nice, as that’s often all you need, and the SI is usually available for free even if the paper is behind a paywall).
we call it SI too.