Publishing date: 2019-03-28
Published on: Scientific Reports
summary: Channel Editor Summary: Fiber photometry allows researchers to record neural activity by measuring changes in fluorescence of chemical indicators using an optical fibre and is a powerful technique that is currently quite expensive to perform.
Publishing date: 2019-03-28
Published on: HardwareX
summary: Sample preparation performance influences the quality of every chemical analysis. Since it is the most labor-intensive stage in the nearly all-analytical protocols, sample preparation automation would be desirable, to increase the analytical throughput, maintaining precision and accuracy, while preventing risks of human exposure to chemical or biological agents.
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
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Publishing date: 2019-02-27
Published on: PLOS Computational Biology
summary: Genome annotation is the process of identifying the location and function of a genome’s encoded features. Improving the biological accuracy of annotation is a complex and iterative process requiring researchers to review and incorporate multiple sources of information such as transcriptome alignments, predictive models based on sequence profiles, and comparisons to features found in related organisms.
Publishing date: 2019-02-27
Published on: PLOS Computational Biology
summary: Channel Editor Summary: BioJava is an open source project which provides a Java framework for processing biological data. The project offers analytical and statistical routines, parsers for common file formats, reference implementations of popular algorithms, and allows the manipulation of sequences and 3D structures.
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: 2019-02-27
Published on: Linux Journal
summary: When did open source begin? In February 1998, when the term was coined by Christine Peterson? Or in 1989, when Richard Stallman drew up the “subroutinized” GNU GPL?
Publishing date: 2019-02-01
Published on: PLOS Biology
summary: Channel Editor Summary: Open-source, scalable and high-throughput protocols for purifying DNA and RNA using magnetic beads are presented, providing easy to use methods for some of the most common processes in molecular biology.
Publishing date: 2019-02-01
Published on: bioRxiv
summary: None
authors: A. Sina Booeshaghi, Eduardo da Veiga Beltrame, Dylan Bannon, Jase Gehring, Lior Pachter
link to paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/521096v1
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Publishing date: 2019-02-01
Published on: Journal of Open HW
summary: Is there an opportunity to radically increase access to scientific instrumentation, while improving the quality and diversity of research tools by harnessing the power of collaborative innovation in the development of FOSH (free and open source hardware)?