Welcome!
Scifir is a digital foundation committed to advance science. Its projects have as objective to improve independent research, to improve open science and to solve important scientific problems. Scifir is a nonprofit organization.
Scifir allows open participation to any scientist interested in advancing science to make a better future. How to participate
What's science?
Science is the knowledge about the matter, the molecules and life forms, it allows to create inventions with this knowledge. Learn what's science here
This website is under construction, it will be active under some months more. It's about science, that's, about creating a better future with scientific inventions.
News
History
Scifir has been founded in 2023 by Ismael Correa Castro, a chilean of 33 years old, in order to publish inside it his numerous inventions and ideas about science that he developed since 2007.
It's a digital foundation, it doesn't pertains to any country or other form of legislation, and operates through the web, without any building.
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Articles
Articles of Scifir are similar to papers in character, but the difference with them is that they explain more the idea and the applications of the topic they treat, instead of focusing in data measured inside a laboratory.
Projects
All the projects of Scifir have open participation, which means that any scientist can join them.
scifir-units
C++ library that gives units of measurement, scalar and vectorial, like length and time, that replace the use of numeric values. It also gives coordinates, points, and a lot of special units, like percentage.
Relatively essential for any serious scientific software.
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L3D file format
"By gamers, for gamers", very lightweight 3D file format that allows to create 3D applications with a lower size on disk. Very flexible and easy to use, ideal for scientific software and videogames.
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DNA file format
File format that allows to easily edit DNA, by knowing which gene is being edited. It also protects from modifications with a checksum.
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CWD file format
File format that allows to create new words, biwords and prefixes. Useful for defining new scientific concepts.
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Guides
All the guides of Scifir are short and allow to know the essential concepts of the topic they teach.
How is Scifir organized
Scifir is organized in the following way, which can be imitated partially or completely in any other science organization:
- News: Any important news about Scifir, can be about any project, member, or anything that has happened.
- Projects: The scientific projects we are developing. All projects inside Scifir have open participation, and any scientist can join or make comments. Each project has its own website, which can be the GitHub repository or a complete website.
- Articles: Articles about science. They are publications of science concepts, theories, formulas, experiments and inventions, but they have a text format different than common papers, so they are called inside Scifir articles.
- Guides: Learning material of science, usually summarized, which is better to read previous to the lecture of an entire book.
Scifir is a digital foundation, which is how has been named here the foundations that work through the internet. A foundation is any nonprofit organization.
You should know too the Standards of Scifir, which standardize important concepts and help to work in science projects in a more flexible and easy manner. Use them in your projects too!
Open science
Open science is an initiative that aims to make science open, like open source, and then accessible for anyone. Scifir follows open science, and all his scientific projects are open. Members are not mandated to make all their projects open, but the projects added to Scifir must be open in order to be accepted.
Open science has the following six principles:
- Open methodology.
- Open source.
- Open data.
- Open access.
- Open peer review.
- Open educational resources.
Recommended books and documentations
Chemistry: The central science
Very important book to start learning chemistry on a scientist level.
Organic chemistry
Excellent book to learn organic chemistry synthesis, interpretation of NMR spectra, and organic chemistry molecules.
Molecular biology of the cell
Big book about cells. Most important book for biologists.
Understanding nutrition
Intense book of nutrition, very important to understand pharmacology, health and to design of new molecules with pharmacological effect.
Biochemistry
Intense book about the biomolecules that comprise our body.
Developmental biology
Big book of developmental biology, can be applied to homunculogy and genetics. Essential reading.
Deep space propulsion
Most important book to learn how to create new spacehips in real life.
PHP documentation
Very good programming language to build websites and to start learning programming.
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The C++ programming language
Maybe too long, but excellent book to learn all about C++ after learning in a normal level this programming language.
Jekyll documentation
Incredible framework to build websites with free hosting thanks to GitHub Pages.
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Recommended science editorials
- Mc Graw Hill: Very good editorial of big books of science. You should read some big books about the branches of science you want to have a deep knowledge.
- Wiley: Like Mc Graw Hill, another very good editorial of big books of science.
- Pearson: Like Mc Graw Hill and Wiley, search big books of science in Pearson too.
- Elsevier: Editorial of books of science of specific topics.
- Springer: Editorial of books of science of specific topics.
If you like the recommended book and the recommended editorials of science, you should read our guide of books too.
Starting in science
At any age, you can start learning science, and become later a scientist. You can become a scientist being a teenager, a good amount of scientists have started studying since at that age, and not after 18 years old.
You can learn the basics of science, in order to understand this website and any other website committed to it, in just some weeks, by reading the start of our Guide of advanced science. After that, you can complete it, or read other science books.
How to start in science
Members
Ismael Correa Castro is the founder of Scifir. He has created Scifir, as a digital foundation, in order to publish all his scientific inventions, which at the start of Scifir were of the categories of creational biology, genetic engineering and informatics.