Publishing date: 2020-05-14 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Alireza Mohammadi, Jim Lavranos, Hao Zhou, Rahim Mutlu, Gursel Alici, Ying Tan, Peter Choong, Denny Oetomo link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0232766

Publishing date: 2020-04-21 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Kai Pua, Daisuke Yuhara, Sho Ayuba, Kenji Yasuoka link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0231714 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Publishing date: 2020-03-24 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Prasha Shrestha, Arun Sathanur, Suraj Maharjan, Emily Saldanha, Dustin Arendt, Svitlana Volkova link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0230250 Icons made by catkuro from www.

Publishing date: 2020-03-11 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Nicholas D. Testa, Samiksha Kaul, Kim N. Le, Mei Zhan, Hang Lu, Annalise B. Paaby link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0230241 Icons made by catkuro from www.

Publishing date: 2020-03-03 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: Comparison of graph structure is a ubiquitous task in data analysis and machine learning, with diverse applications in fields such as neuroscience, cyber security, social network analysis, and bioinformatics.

Publishing date: 2020-03-03 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: Channel Editor Summary: Sometimes, all the available algorithms to perform a scientific task are either closed source, or just too complex to easily be re-used by others.

Publishing date: 2020-03-03 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: There was an explosion in the amount of commercially available DNA in sequence repositories over the last decade. The number of such plasmids increased from 12,000 to over 300,000 among three of the largest repositories: iGEM, Addgene, and DNASU.

Publishing date: 2020-02-07 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Florian Katzmeier, Lukas Aufinger, Aurore Dupin, Jorge Quintero, Matthias Lenz, Ludwig Bauer, Sven Klumpe, Dawafuti Sherpa, Benedikt Dürr, Maximilian Honemann, Igor Styazhkin, Friedrich C.

Publishing date: 2020-02-07 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Sarah H. Needs, Tai The Diep, Stephanie P. Bull, Anton Lindley-Decaire, Partha Ray, Alexander D. Edwards link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0224878

Publishing date: 2020-02-07 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Michael S. Bono Jr., Sydney Beasley, Emily Hanhauser, A. John Hart, Rohit Karnik, Chintan Vaishnav link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0228140 Icons made by catkuro from www.

Publishing date: 2020-02-07 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Benedict Diederich, Barbora Marsikova, Brad Amos, Rainer Heintzmann link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0227096 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Publishing date: 2020-02-03 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Michael A. Spence, Hayley J. Bannister, Johnathan E. Ball, Paul J. Dolder, Christopher A. Griffiths, Robert B. Thorpe link to paper: 10.

Publishing date: 2020-01-29 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Michael W. Prairie, Seth H. Frisbie, K. Kesava Rao, Anyamanee H. Saksri, Shreyas Parbat, Erika J. Mitchell link to paper: 10.

Publishing date: 2020-01-24 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Chiwan Park, Ha-Myung Park, U. Kang link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0227032 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Publishing date: 2020-01-15 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Hitesh Sapkota, Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, Yi Wang link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0226281 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Publishing date: 2020-01-15 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Ivan Braga Campos, Todd J. Landers, Kate D. Lee, William George Lee, Megan R. Friesen, Anne C. Gaskett, Louis Ranjard

Publishing date: 2020-01-15 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: Analysis of microbiome data involves identifying co-occurring groups of taxa associated with sample features of interest such as disease state. A key challenge in this is the composition and dimensionality of microbiome data.

Publishing date: 2020-01-15 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: Channel Editor Summary: PyLandStats is a fantastic example of an open source scientific package, with an open licence (GPL), clear documentation for both users and developers, and a source code repository set up to easily enable contributions and bug reports.

Publishing date: 2019-11-14 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: Short term funding is a common funding model for informatics projects. Funders are interested in maximizing the sustainability and accessibility of the outputs, but there are no commonly accepted practices to do so in the Earth sciences informatics field.

Publishing date: 2019-10-17 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: This study aimed to evaluate the concurrent validity of two different inertial measurement units for measuring spatiotemporal parameters during running on a treadmill, by comparing data with a high-speed video analysis (VA) at 1,000 Hz.

Publishing date: 2019-10-17 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: Earth System Models (ESMs) are excellent tools for quantifying many aspects of future climate dynamics but are too computationally expensive to produce large collections of scenarios for downstream users of ESM data.

Publishing date: 2019-10-17 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: An increasing number of people with stroke live in their communities, yet the understanding of how their reintegration into society can best be facilitated is incomplete.

Publishing date: 2019-10-15 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Upender Kalwa, Christopher Legner, Elizabeth Wlezien, Gregory Tylka, Santosh Pandey link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223386 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Publishing date: 2019-09-26 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: Ribosome profiling (ribo-seq) provides a means to analyze active translation by determining ribosome occupancy in a transcriptome-wide manner. The vast majority of ribosome protected fragments (RPFs) resides within the protein-coding sequence of mRNAs.

Publishing date: 2019-09-24 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Alan F. Karr, Matthew T. Taylor, Suzanne L. West, Soko Setoguchi, Tzuyung D. Kou, Tobias Gerhard, Daniel B. Horton link to paper: 10.

Publishing date: 2019-08-16 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: The contemporary scientific community places a growing emphasis on the reproducibility of research. The projects R package is a free, open-source package created in the interest of facilitating reproducible research workflows.

Publishing date: 2019-08-02 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Surjeet Singh, Edgar Bermudez-Contreras, Mojtaba Nazari, Robert J. Sutherland, Majid H. Mohajerani link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0220751 Icons made by catkuro from www.

Publishing date: 2019-06-19 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Lawrie Skinner, Benjamin P. Fahimian, Amy S. Yu link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0217757 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Publishing date: 2019-06-04 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: Single-molecule fluorescence microscopy studies of bacteria provide unique insights into the mechanisms of cellular processes and protein machineries in ways that are unrivalled by any other technique.

Publishing date: 2019-05-23 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: In recent years, researchers have access to larger volumes of data. More and more hypotheses are now developed and tested against existing data rather than by generating new data.

Publishing date: 2019-05-02 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: Quantitative fluorescence imaging is an essential tool in biomedical research. It requires consistent and repeatable conditions such as constant sample illumination. Even on a confocal microscope this can usually only be achieved by using an external laser power meter.

Publishing date: 2019-04-11 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: Information on species distribution is recognized as a crucial input for biodiversity conservation and management. To that end, considerable resources have been dedicated towards increasing the quantity and availability of species occurrence data, boosting their use in species distribution modeling and online platforms for their dissemination.

Publishing date: 2019-04-11 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: There have been many in silico studies based on a Boolean network model to investigate network sensitivity against gene or interaction mutations. However, there are no proper tools to examine the network sensitivity against many different types of mutations, including user-defined ones.

Publishing date: 2019-04-11 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: Given the close relationship between protein structure and function, protein structure searches have long played an established role in bioinformatics. Despite their maturity, existing protein structure searches either use simplifying assumptions or compromise between fast response times and quality of results.

Publishing date: 2019-04-04 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Juan José Burred, Emmanuel Ponsot, Louise Goupil, Marco Liuni, Jean-Julien Aucouturier link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0205943 Icons made by catkuro from www.

Publishing date: 2019-04-02 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Xiao-Long Chen, Ya-Fen Xie, Jian-Xin Li, Wu Wu, Guan-Nan Li, Hui-Jing Hu, Xiao-Yun Wang, Zhao-Jian Meng, Yue-Feng Wen, Wen-Hua Huang

Publishing date: 2019-03-28 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Andrew Erskine, Thorsten Bus, Jan T. Herb, Andreas T. Schaefer link to paper: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0211571 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Publishing date: 2019-03-05 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Phillip Armand Bester, Andrie De Vries, Stephanus Riekert, Kim Steegen, Gert van Zyl, Dominique Goedhals link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0213241 Icons made by catkuro from www.

Publishing date: 2019-02-27 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: The submission of DNA sequences to public sequence databases is an essential, but insufficiently automated step in the process of generating and disseminating novel DNA sequence data.

Publishing date: 2019-02-01 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: The study of two- dimensional (2D) materials is a rapidly growing area within nanomaterials research. However, the high equipment costs, which include the processing systems necessary for creating these materials, can be a barrier to entry for some researchers interested in studying these novel materials.

Publishing date: 2019-01-17 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: The exploration of hybrid quantum-classical algorithms and programming models on noisy near-term quantum hardware has begun. As hybrid programs scale towards classical intractability, validation and benchmarking are critical to understanding the utility of the hybrid computational model.

Publishing date: 2018-12-20 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: CoCoNut removes the need for slow and eye-straining manual counting of viable colonies under a microscope. It’s a semi-automated, image-based cell colony counting setup that combines 3D-printed hardware and an ImageJ plugin.

Publishing date: 2018-12-20 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: This nifty device measures partial pressure of oxygen in a similar manner to commercial devices, yet at substantially reduced cost. In a nutshell, a sinusoidally modulated LED excites a luminescent dye over time, while a photodiode picks up the spectrally shifted emission light from the dye.

Publishing date: 2018-12-10 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: In recent years, the explosion of genomic data and bioinformatic tools has been accompanied by a growing conversation around reproducibility of results and usability of software.

Publishing date: 2018-12-10 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: The classification of infections is a routine component of clinical management. Kameris is an open source toolkit for a supervised and alignment-free subtyping method which operates on HIV-1 sequences.

Publishing date: 2018-12-10 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: Walking speed has been associated with many clinical outcomes (e.g., frailty, mortality, joint replacement need, etc.). Accurately measuring walking speed (stride length x step count/time) typically requires significant clinician/staff time or a gait lab with specialized equipment (i.

Publishing date: 2018-11-19 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: This paper presents a useful open-source Microplate Photoirradiation System (MPS) for use in standard 96- and 24-well microplates that allows photobiologists to conduct a variety of experiments in a high-throughput format, inlcuding inside incubators.

Publishing date: 2018-10-23 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: This paper introduces GC4S, a bioinformatics-oriented collection of high-level, extensible, and reusable Java GUI elements specifically designed to speed up bioinformatics software development.

Publishing date: 2018-09-06 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Pascal T. Merz, Michael R. Shirts link to paper: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202764 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Publishing date: 2018-07-25 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: The potentiostat presented here from Prattana Lopin and Kyle V. Lopin can measure the presence of chemicals including vitamin C and lead without any external electronic components.

Publishing date: 2018-07-17 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: None link to paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199771 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Publishing date: 2018-07-11 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: The accurate quantification of cellular and mitochondrial bioenergetic activity is of great interest in medicine and biology. This study provides statistical good practices to support experimentalists in designing, analyzing, testing, and reporting the results of mitochondrial stress tests using this high throughput platform.

Publishing date: 2018-05-29 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: One common problem in visualizing real-life networks, including biological pathways, is the large size of these networks. Often times, users find themselves facing slow, non-scaling operations due to network size, if not a “hairball” network, hindering effective analysis.

Publishing date: 2018-05-29 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Krishanu Nandy, David W. Collinson, Charlie M. Scheftic, L. Catherine Brinson link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0197999 Icons made by catkuro from www.

Publishing date: 2018-04-16 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: In order to measure what happens to samples while being centrifuged, the authors created an adaptor that combines electronics and 3D printed parts to measure in real time how concentration changes along a tube containing samples, allowing protocol optimization.

Publishing date: 2018-04-12 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: Understanding Earth surface responses in terms of sediment dynamics to climatic variability and tectonics forcing is hindered by limited ability of current models to simulate long-term evolution of sediment transfer and associated morphological changes.

Publishing date: 2018-04-02 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: Despite increasing ability to store and analyze large amounts of data for organismal and ecological studies, the process of collecting distance and count measurements from images has largely remained time consuming and error-prone, particularly for tasks for which automation is difficult or impossible.

Publishing date: 2018-03-29 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Peter G. Shankles, Larry J. Millet, Jayde A. Aufrecht, Scott T. Retterer link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0192752 Icons made by catkuro from www.

Publishing date: 2018-03-27 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Jiao Ma, Alan Saghatelian, Maxim Nikolaievich Shokhirev link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0194518 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Publishing date: 2018-03-21 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: Objective: Current diagnostic assessment tools remain suboptimal in demonstrating complex morphology of congenital heart disease (CHD). This limitation has posed several challenges in preoperative planning, communication in medical practice, and medical education.

Publishing date: 2018-03-21 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Hannah Brooks, Grant E. Haines, M. Carly Lin, S. Laurie Sanderson link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0193874 Icons made by catkuro from www.

Publishing date: 2018-03-16 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: David Kavaler, Vladimir Filkov link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0194139 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Publishing date: 2018-03-15 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: Lu et al’s modular, open source, and fully automated slide-scanning microscope significantly reduces the cost and ease of use of whole slide imaging of diagnostic samples.

Publishing date: 2018-03-13 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Simon Drouin, D. Louis Collins link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0193636 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Publishing date: 2018-03-09 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Jinglu Song, Bo Huang, Rongrong Li link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0190701 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Publishing date: 2018-03-08 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Ulf Kai Mertens, Andreas Voss, Stefan Radev link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0193981 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Publishing date: 2018-03-06 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: Milanovic et al present the construction of a reliable and inexpensive pH stat device allowing closed loop monitoring and control of pH using open-source, low-cost and/or readily available laboratory devices.

Publishing date: 2018-02-23 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Steven Shave, Stefan Mann, Joanna Koszela, Alastair Kerr, Manfred Auer link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0193332 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Publishing date: 2018-02-22 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Alexandra A. Portnova, Gaurav Mukherjee, Keshia M. Peters, Ann Yamane, Katherine M. Steele link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0193106 Icons made by catkuro from www.

Publishing date: 2018-02-12 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: High-throughput technologies generate considerable amount of data which often requires bioinformatic expertise to analyze. Here, Ptior Madanecki et al present High-Throughput Tabular Data Processor (HTDP), a platform independent Java program.

Publishing date: 2018-02-09 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Daniel C. Bridges, Kenneth R. Tovar, Bian Wu, Paul K. Hansma, Kenneth S. Kosik link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0192477 Icons made by catkuro from www.

Publishing date: 2018-02-07 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Khamis Essa, Aydin Sabouri, Haider Butt, Fawzia Hamed Basuny, Mootaz Ghazy, Mahmoud Ahmed El-Sayed link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0192389 Icons made by catkuro from www.

Publishing date: 2018-02-07 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Akinori Higaki, Masaki Mogi, Jun Iwanami, Li-Juan Min, Hui-Yu Bai, Bao-Shuai Shan, Masayoshi Kukida, Harumi Kan-no, Shuntaro Ikeda, Jitsuo Higaki, Masatsugu Horiuchi

Publishing date: 2018-02-07 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Bhakti Dwivedi, Jeanne Kowalski link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0192563 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Publishing date: 2018-01-03 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: During the 2014–16 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak, the Magburaka Ebola Management Centre (EMC) operated by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone, identified that available district maps lacked up-to-date village information to facilitate timely implementation of EVD control strategies.

Publishing date: 2017-12-28 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: These authors took up the challenge of creating a thermometer for accurate measurements of biological and chemical samples on the microliter or nanoliter scale.

Publishing date: 2017-11-15 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: In this exciting design, the authors present a large-field of view fluorescence chamber for visualisation of, well, anything that fluoresceses. Using LEDs and low-cost acrylics the system is set-up to allow for convenient simultaneous imaging in multiple colours using an RGB camera.

Publishing date: 2017-11-07 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: This paper focuses on the application of rapid prototyping techniques using additive manufacturing in combination with parametric design to create low-cost, yet accurate and reliable instruments.

Publishing date: 2017-09-25 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: This paper presents the MRI Quality Control tool (MRIQC), a tool for extracting quality measures and fitting a binary (accept/exclude) classifier. The results show that the tool performs with high accuracy in intra-site prediction, but performance on unseen sites leaves space for improvement

Publishing date: 2017-07-26 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: An easy to build, affordable open source turbidostat built with 3D printed parts and an Arduino. Additionaly it uses an algorithm based on Kalman filter that can be easily adapted for different uses such as bioreactors, studies of evolution or metabolic changes.

Publishing date: 2017-07-20 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Ji Woon Yea, Jae Won Park, Sung Kyu Kim, Dong Youn Kim, Jae Gu Kim, Chan Young Seo, Won Hyo Jeong, Man Youl Jeong, Se An Oh

Publishing date: 2017-07-12 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: This interesting paper shows that with $100 it is possible to construct a glove that uses include the ability to detect and translate sign language as well as to control a prosthetic hand.

Publishing date: 2017-07-05 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Anshuman J. Das, Denise C. Murmann, Kenneth Cohrn, Ramesh Raskar link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179264 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Publishing date: 2017-06-29 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: Knowledge clusters and expert drivers indicate that there is a research focus on tissue engineering including the fabrication of organs, bioinks and new 3D bioprinting systems.

Publishing date: 2017-06-26 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Yiin-Kuen Fuh, Zheng-Hong Lai, Li-Han Kau, Hung-Jui Huang link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179389 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Publishing date: 2017-06-16 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: A pipetting robot built with off the shelf components and small number of custom parts, it not only makes tedious processes automated, but it can also be used for improvement of experimental designs.

Publishing date: 2017-06-06 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: The paper describes a DIY affordable real-time PCR system, that works with one eppendorf tube at a time. Intentionally designed this way, the system is optimised for infectious disease diagnostics, and to be simple to build and maintain.

Publishing date: 2017-05-31 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: To lower the barrier to entry and provide the best options when aiming to 3D print an anatomical model from medical images, the authors provide an overview of relevant free and open-source image segmentation tools as well as 3D printing technologies.

Publishing date: 2017-05-11 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: A three-dimensional (3D)-printed customized bolus (3D bolus) can be used for radiotherapy application to irregular surfaces. However, bolus fabrication based on computed tomography (CT) scans is complicated and also delivers unwanted irradiation.

Publishing date: 2017-05-04 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: This study suggests that a 3D-printed phantom simulating a high-density (about 1.4 g/cm3) organ can be created based on CT images and that a developed 3D printed spine phantom could be utilized in patient-specific quality assurance for stereotactic body radiation therapy.

Publishing date: 2017-04-28 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: This paper describes a method that uses active contours to semi-automatically track body and leg segments from video image sequences of unmarked, freely behaving D.

Publishing date: 2017-04-19 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: InMAP (Intervention Model for Air Pollution) offers an alternative to comprehensive air quality models for estimating the air pollution health impacts of emission reductions and other potential interventions.

Publishing date: 2017-04-14 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Damien M. O’Halloran link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0175480 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Publishing date: 2017-04-13 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: G. C. Young, S. Dey, A. D. Rogers, D. Exton link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0175341 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Publishing date: 2017-04-03 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: Editors note: This paper describes how to build a closed loop control system for microfluidics, based on Arduino and 3D printed parts. It improves on existing syringe pumps as this system has a feedback loop that measures the pressure in the system and allows for more precise control of the volumes injected.

Publishing date: 2017-03-16 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Philip R. Nicovich, James Walsh, Till Böcking, Katharina Gaus link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0173879 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Publishing date: 2017-03-06 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: The use of implants that are specificaly designed for each patient is currently bounded to the use of expensive software or by the use of open source alternatives that are time consuming and labour intensive.

Publishing date: 2017-02-02 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: The method proposed contributes towards (a) unlimited open source use, (b) a low-cost setup, (c) complete guide for any entomologist to adapt in terms of hardware and software, (d) simple to use, and (e) a lightweight data output for collective behavior analysis of mosquitoes.

Publishing date: 2017-02-02 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: Pedicle screw fixation in the upper cervical spine is a difficult and high-risk procedure. The screw is difficult to place rapidly and accurately, and can lead to serious injury of spinal cord or vertebral artery.

Publishing date: 2017-02-02 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: A new technique for quantitative phase and amplitude microscopy from a single color image with coded illumination. The system consists of a commercial brightfield microscope with one hardware modification—an inexpensive 3D printed condenser insert.

Publishing date: 2017-01-25 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Bissan Audeh, Michel Beigbeder, Antoine Zimmermann, Philippe Jaillon, Cédric Bousquet link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0169658 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Publishing date: 2017-01-18 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: Editors note: The article presents a toolbox for opto-mechanical pieces that are based on printable 3D models and commercially available parts; each piece is tested for stability and precision and compared to pieces from well-known manufacturers.

Publishing date: 2017-01-11 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: The development of a user-customisable open source camera trap platform named ‘WiseEye’, designed to provide flexible camera trap technology for wildlife researchers.

Publishing date: 2017-01-10 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Muhammad Usama, Nordin Zakaria link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0168207 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Publishing date: 2016-12-21 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: The ATLIS enables the transformation of simple inverted microscopes into live cell imaging systems using custom-designed 3D-printed parts, a smartphone, and off-the-shelf electronic components.

Publishing date: 2016-12-01 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: A multi-functional microscope for research laboratories that have significant cost and space limitations. The microscope pivots around the sample, operating in upright, inverted, side-on and oblique geometries.

Publishing date: 2016-10-05 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: An accessible, interactive do-it-yourself smartphone microscopy platform that promotes exploratory stimulation and observation of microscopic organisms, in a design that combines the educational modalities of build, play, and inquire.

Publishing date: 2016-08-15 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: 3D printing multi-property programmable fluidic devices in a single step, in which integrated multimaterial valves can be used to control complex fluidic reactions for a variety of applications, including DNA assembly and analysis, continuous sampling and sensing, and soft robotics

Publishing date: 2016-08-15 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Abhiksha Desai, Jonathan Krynitsky, Thomas J. Pohida, Huaying Zhao, Peter Schuck link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0155201 Icons made by catkuro from www.

Publishing date: 2016-08-15 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: A strategy to increase the engagement of students into the world of cell and structural biology by combining 3D electron microscopy techniques and 3D prototyping technology (3D printing) to generate 3D physical models that accurately and realistically reproduce a close-to-the native structure of the cell and serve as a tool for students and teachers outside the main centers.

Publishing date: 2016-07-20 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: Each MEC “building block” performs a fundamental function that is commonly found in biological or chemical instruments, functions like valving, pumping, mixing, controlling, and sensing.

Publishing date: 2016-06-30 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Kamfai Chan, Mauricio Coen, Justin Hardick, Charlotte A. Gaydos, Kah-Yat Wong, Clayton Smith, Scott A. Wilson, Siva Praneeth Vayugundla, Season Wong

Publishing date: 2016-02-03 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Ian S. Kinstlinger, Andreas Bastian, Samantha J. Paulsen, Daniel H. Hwang, Anderson H. Ta, David R. Yalacki, Tim Schmidt, Jordan S.

Publishing date: 2015-12-30 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: William G. Patrick, Alec A. K. Nielsen, Steven J. Keating, Taylor J. Levy, Che-Wei Wang, Jaime J. Rivera, Octavio Mondragón-Palomino, Peter A.

Publishing date: 2015-11-23 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Jens B. Bosse, Nikhila S. Tanneti, Ian B. Hogue, Lynn W. Enquist link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0143547 Icons made by catkuro from www.

Publishing date: 2015-08-05 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: The development of an inexpensive portable, handheld photometer will greatly expedite field nitrate analysis to combat pollution. To accomplish this goal, a methodology for the design, development, and technical validation of an improved open-source water testing platform capable of performing Nitrate Reductase Nitrate-Nitrogen Analysis Method is evaluated.

Publishing date: 2015-05-13 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Zachary F. Phillips, Michael V. D’Ambrosio, Lei Tian, Jared J. Rulison, Hurshal S. Patel, Nitin Sadras, Aditya V. Gande, Neil A.

Publishing date: 2015-04-27 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Ai-Min Wu, Zhen-Xuan Shao, Jian-Shun Wang, Xin-Dong Yang, Wan-Qing Weng, Xiang-Yang Wang, Hua-Zi Xu, Zhong-Ke Lin, Yong-Long Chi link to paper: 10.

Publishing date: 2015-04-16 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Joseph T. Belter, Aaron M. Dollar link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122915 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Publishing date: 2015-03-04 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Dieter Vanderelst, Herbert Peremans, Norizham Abdul Razak, Edouard Verstraelen, Greg Dimitriadis link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118545 Icons made by catkuro from www.

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