Everything about PC-File

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: PC-FileA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Chapel Hill Expert Survey trend file, 1999–2019Influential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Reconfigurable Processor Array A Bit Sliced Parallel Computer (USA)The most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: The file drawer problem and tolerance for null results.Cited 6,854 times
5. Go sideways: Jim KnopfA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: PC-TalkA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• The file drawer problem and tolerance for null results.

  Robert Rosenthal · 1979 · Psychological Bulletin · 6,854 citations

• The protein data bank: A computer-based archival file for macromolecular structures

  Frances C. Bernstein, Thomas F. Koetzle, Graheme J.B. Williams · 1977 · Journal of Molecular Biology · 6,820 citations

• SeqKit: A Cross-Platform and Ultrafast Toolkit for FASTA/Q File Manipulation

  Wei Shen, Shuai Le, Yan Li · 2016 · PLOS ONE · 3,662 citations

• The Sanger FASTQ file format for sequences with quality scores, and the Solexa/Illumina FASTQ variants

  Peter J. A. Cock, Christopher J. Fields, Naohisa Goto · 2009 · Nucleic Acids Research · 1,610 citations

• The Google file system

  Sanjay Ghemawat, Howard Gobioff, Shun-Tak Leung · 2003 · ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review · 1,571 citations

• The Powder Diffraction File: a quality materials characterization database

  Stacy Gates-Rector, Thomas Blanton · 2019 · Powder Diffraction · 1,295 citations

• Publication bias in the social sciences: Unlocking the file drawer

  Annie Franco, Neil Malhotra, Gabor Simonovits · 2014 · Science · 1,187 citations

• P-curve: A key to the file-drawer.

  Uri Simonsohn, Leif D. Nelson, Joseph P. Simmons · 2014 · Journal of Experimental Psychology: General · 1,155 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Chapel Hill Expert Survey trend file, 1999–2019

  Seth Jolly, Ryan Bakker, Liesbet Hooghe · 2022 · Electoral Studies · 503 citations

• PDF-5+: a comprehensive Powder Diffraction File™ for materials characterization

  Soorya N. Kabekkodu, Anja Dosen, Thomas N. Blanton · 2024 · Powder Diffraction · 309 citations

• Unidirectional single-file transport of full-length proteins through a nanopore

  Luning Yu, Xinqi Kang, Fanjun Li · 2023 · Nature Biotechnology · 161 citations

• OME-Zarr: a cloud-optimized bioimaging file format with international community support

  Josh Moore, Daniela Basurto-Lozada, Sébastien Besson · 2023 · Histochemistry and Cell Biology · 131 citations

• Sizes and Mass Profiles of Candidate Massive Galaxies Discovered by JWST at 7 < z < 9: Evidence for Very Early Formation of the Central ∼100 pc of Present-day Ellipticals

  Josephine F. W. Baggen, Pieter van Dokkum, Ivo Labbé · 2023 · The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 86 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Reconfigurable Processor Array A Bit Sliced Parallel Computer (USA)A. Rushton · 1986
• Mastering today's softwareEdward G. Martin, Charles S. Parker · 1992
• DOS for DummiesDan Gookin · 1991
• Information systems literacyHossein Bidgoli · 1993
• DOSKris A. Jamsa · 1987
• Running MS-DOS 20th Anniversary EditionVan Wolverton · 1984
• Learning to use microcomputer applicationsGary B. Shelly · 1992
• Four software toolsTim Duffy · 1986

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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