Recommended reading
On mentoring:
On the process of science:
On doing science:
Writing a response to reviewers, writing manuscripts:
- Crosstalk, my sporadic column in The Wire, on the process and philosophy of science and discovery.
- Abraham Flexner's classic essay: The usefulness of useless knowledge
- Sydney Brenner's classic Loose Ends column (complete collection)
- Athel Cornish-Bowden's marvellous "New Beer in an Old Bottle: Eduard Buchner and the Growth of Biochemical Knowledge"
On mentoring:
- Nature's guide for mentors
- Sandy Schmidt: On building a lab, mentoring etc
- Plenty of good advice and resources from Maya Schuldiner's lab.
On the process of science:
- Uri Alon: on How to choose a good scientific problem, on Building a motivated research group
- Steve McKnight: On getting there from here, and on picking scientific questions with Unconventional Wisdom
- Dan Koshland: The Cha-Cha-Cha Theory of Scientific Discovery
On doing science:
- Fred Sherman’s introduction to yeast genetics & getting started with yeast
- Botstein, Chervitz, Cherry: Yeast as a model organism.
- Botstein & Fink: Yeast: An experimental organism for the 21st century.
- Arthur Kornberg’s Ten commandments of enzymology
- David Botstein (ASCB newsletter article): On the importance of teaching for research
Writing a response to reviewers, writing manuscripts:
- Mark Ptashne: On learning to write
- George Whitesides: On writing a paper
- Kording and Mensch: Rules for structuring a paper
- Tips on writing a great title and abstract