Her public call for "brief phrases from your diary, text messages, etc. that are related to themes of love and melancholy/heartbreak" generated submissions from over 30 different countries, even while the project was inactive.
One of the more popular spoofing tools is SCIgen, an algorithm created, in 2005, by a group of M.I.T. students that randomly tosses together words "to auto-generate submissions to conferences that you suspect might have very low submission standards," as well as "to maximize amusement," according to its Web site.
The trio then put SCIgen online as a free service, encouraging researchers to "auto-generate submissions to conferences that you suspect might have very low submission standards".
2220 people responded generating 4461 submissions.
In response to the survey, 2220 people generated 4461 submissions.
Predictions generated for submissions classified as "novel" should be considered cautiously or ignored altogether.
Here, we report the results of our investigation into the use of rpoB sequencing to characterize 386 isolates generated from submissions to the National Veterinary Services Laboratories NVSLL) from companion animals, livestock, feral animals, and zoo animals.
The results of the summer program were disseminated in numerous conference presentations, in two student/faculty research publications, and three additional submissions and generated grant proposal submissions.
Mortality was generated by submission of patient demographics to the NSW Government Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages.
A minimum cut-off value of 100bp was applied after quality control processing for generating the submission file for EMBL (Accession numbers, FM897377– FM897377).
A minimum cut-off value of 150 bp was applied after quality control processing for sequence database searching and for generating the submission file for dbEST [ 48] (Accession numbers, dbEST: 49109381 49125759, Genbank: EW744731– EW744731).
