Publishing date: 2017-12-05
Published on: GOSH News
summary: The US National Science Foundation (NSF) recently published a call for suggestions of research areas that could benefit from ‘networks of networks’ between US and international researchers.
Publishing date: 2017-10-24
Published on: PLOS Biology
summary: Open scholarship, such as the sharing of articles, code, data, and educational resources, has the potential to improve university research and education as well as increase the impact universities can have beyond their own walls.
Publishing date: 2017-10-19
Published on: PLOS Biology
summary: This design is a rig for high-throughput behavioural experiments with genetically amenable model species such as fruit flies. At its core, it is a webcam (RPi camera) focussed at a set of interchangable behavioural arena arrays for parallel recording of multiple aninals at once.
Publishing date: 2017-09-05
Published on: Journal of Open Hardware
summary: Based on analysis of public documentation of 132 products, this paper provides an overview of how practitioners tend to interpret the concept of open source hardware.
Publishing date: 2017-07-18
Published on: PLOS Biology
summary: The paper describes a €100 portable and neurogenetics lab. Built with off the shelf components and 3D printed parts it is a versatile tool that due to its modular design can be useful in different fields.
Publishing date: 2017-06-07
Published on: Nature Biotechnology
summary: Metafluidics, an open-source, community-driven repository that hosts digital design files, assembly specifications, and open-source software to enable users to build, configure, and operate a microfluidic device.
Publishing date: 2017-04-18
Published on: PLOS Medicine
summary: Editors note: This paper offers ideas and suggestion for new and open source ways of developing drugs and treatments. The idea is to rely on the open source philosophy and have companies/non-profits/academics/government working together in an open setting.
Publishing date: 2017-04-05
Published on: Analytical Chemistry
summary: The authors write to introduce analytical chemists who are new to the open-source movement to best practices and concepts in this area and to survey the state of open-source research in analytical chemistry.
Publishing date: 2017-03-21
Published on: Journal of Open Hardware
summary: The rise of Free and Open Source models for software development has catalyzed the growth of Free and Open Source hardware (also known as “Libre Hardware”).
Publishing date: 2017-03-07
Published on: PLOS Biology
summary: CuboCube is an open-source learning materials creation system designed to facilitate e-textbook development, with an ultimate goal of improving the social learning experience for students.