Publishing date: 2019-02-01
Published on: Bits of DNA
summary: While open sourcing has become de rigueur in genomics dry labs, wet labs remain beholden to commercial instrument providers that rarely open source hardware or software, and impose draconian restrictions on instrument use and modification.
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: 2019-02-01
Published on: Scientific Reports
summary: None
authors: None
link to paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-36809-y
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Publishing date: 2019-02-01
Published on: bioRxiv
summary: The regulation of feeding plays a key role in determining the fitness of animals through its impact on nutrition. Elucidating the circuit basis of feeding and related behaviors is an important goal in neuroscience.
Publishing date: 2019-02-01
Published on: Physiology | Frontiers
summary: None
authors: Penelope F. Lawton, Matthew D. Lee, Christopher D. Saunter, John M. Girkin1, John G. McCarron and Calum Wilson
link to paper: https://www.
Publishing date: 2019-01-17
Published on: PLOS Genetics
summary: Genetic variants in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are tested for disease association mostly using simple regression, one variant at a time. Standard approaches to improve power in detecting disease-associated SNPs use multiple regression with Bayesian variable selection in which a sparsity-enforcing prior on effect sizes is used to avoid overtraining and all effect sizes are integrated out for posterior inference.
Publishing date: 2019-01-17
Published on: PLOS Computational Biology
summary: Channel Editor’s Summary: To many, open source software means “free to use”, and to others it might mean “I can see and re-use the code freely”.
Publishing date: 2019-01-17
Published on: PLOS Biology
summary: A personalized approach based on a patient’s or pathogen’s unique genomic sequence is the foundation of precision medicine. Genomic findings must be robust and reproducible, and experimental data capture should adhere to findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) guiding principles.
Publishing date: 2019-01-17
Published on: MIT News
summary: Three co-creators of the MIT-incubated Julia programming language are the recipients of the 2019 James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software. The prize will be awarded to Bezanson, Karpinski, and Shah “for the creation of Julia, an innovative environment for the creation of high-performance tools that enable the analysis and solution of computational science problems.
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.