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Re:BioNTech-InstaDeep Early Warning System to Detect High-Ri... by mlindner on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @10:46AM (#29892864)
> As a side note, the first author on this paper is the CEO of InstaDeep. I see it as a red flag that the CEO of a 150+ person company would put themselves as first author on this paper. Perhaps I'm unfairly judging and the CEO really was the lead contributor to the study.

Authors on scientific papers are ordered by name, so whoever's name is first is pure coincidence.

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Re:BioNTech-InstaDeep Early Warning System to Detect High-Ri... by gpm on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @10:54AM (#29892995)
The order of authors varies by field. I believe in biology it usually starts with the person who did most of the work (or people, but if more than one it's explicitly noted), everyone who contributed in the middle, principal investigator (i.e. head of lab) last.

In this case I notice that they first sorted all the instadeep people to the front, and biontech people to the end... not sure what I'm supposed to take away from the ordering, but it's not random.

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Re:BioNTech-InstaDeep Early Warning System to Detect High-Ri... by orintorynchus on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @11:18AM (#29893421)
It is not random. InstaDeep has designed, developed, built, benchmarked the method. BioNTech performed experimental validation, provided expert insight into the problem domain. Hence, authors are segmented by contribution areas.
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Re:BioNTech-InstaDeep Early Warning System to Detect High-Ri... by meepmorp on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @11:01AM (#29893114)
Or sometimes PI first, depending on the scope of the PI's ego
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Re:BioNTech-InstaDeep Early Warning System to Detect High-Ri... by axg11 on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @10:51AM (#29892937)
This isn't true for the field of biology or medicine. If you take a look at the order of authors on the paper in question you can also see that the ordering is not alphabetical.
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