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: 2018-12-10
Published on: JAXENTER
summary: Are you looking for a new project to work on? Do you have some code that you’d like to donate? In this piece, Sarah Schlothauer presents a shortlist of free and open source communities dedicated to the world of FOSS.
Publishing date: 2018-12-10
Published on: Forbes
summary: Matthew Barlocker is the Founder and CEO of AWS monitoring software startup “Blue Matador”, and discusses here the specific benefits of contributing to an open source project.
Publishing date: 2018-12-10
Published on: PLOS NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES
summary: Although the plaque reduction neutralization test (PRNT) is an important assay for measuring neutralizing antibody responses against many viruses, no free, open-source programs specifically designed for virus plaque counting and neutralizing antibody titer estimation are available.
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: 2018-11-19
Published on: PLOS Biology
summary: Spikeling provides an in silico model of a spiking neuron that can be used to illustrate their biophysical behaviour through sound and light inputs and outputs as well as a custom oscilloscope interface.