Stencila launches the first version of its (open source) word processor and spreadsheet editor designed for researchers. By Michael Aufreiter, Substance, and Aleksandra Pawlik and Nokome Bentley, Stencila Stencila is an open source office suite designed for researchers. It allows the authoring of interactive, data-driven publications in visual interfaces, similar ...

The technology is available for researchers to create a reproducible manuscript whereby calculations and graphs are generated computationally – thereby saving researcher time and avoiding human error. eLife is exploring ways to support life and biomedical scientists who wish to communicate their research in this way. In this post, Chris Hartgerink, ...