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A practical 3D-printed soft robotic prosthetic hand with multi-articulating capabilities

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

Open source meeting tools: 3 things to know

Publishing date: 2020-05-12 Published on: The Enterprisers Project summary: Are you considering an open source alternative to standard videoconferencing software? Here, the author reviews some of the options such as Jitsi, Jami, and Signal.

ProteinVR: Web-based molecular visualization in virtual reality

Publishing date: 2020-05-12 Published on: PLOS Computational Biology summary: Channel Editor Summary: Have you ever wondered what proteins look like? In fact, accurately conceptualizing 3D protein structures is vital to both scientific research and education.

Synchronized editing: the future of collaborative writing

Publishing date: 2020-05-12 Published on: Nature summary: Draft scientific manuscripts tend to be confidential, however this article presents the approach of Olga Botvinnik who managed her paper like a piece of open-source software.

Tech and Covid-19: open source needed for contact tracing apps

Publishing date: 2020-05-12 Published on: Information Age summary: The inevitable and necessary responses to COVID-19 from the lockdown itself, to the use of contact tracing apps raise concerns about our civil liberties that in a different time would all have been hotly debated over a considerable time period.

Leveraging open hardware to alleviate the burden of COVID-19 on global health systems

Publishing date: 2020-05-06 Published on: PLOS Biology summary: With the current rapid spread of COVID-19, global health systems are increasingly overburdened by the sheer number of people that need diagnosis, isolation and treatment.

Scedar: A scalable Python package for single-cell RNA-seq exploratory data analysis

Publishing date: 2020-04-27 Published on: PLOS Computational Biology summary: None authors: Yuanchao Zhang, Man S. Kim, Erin R. Reichenberger, Ben Stear, Deanne M. Taylor link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007794 Icons made by catkuro from www.

Dataflow programming for the analysis of molecular dynamics with AViS, an analysis and visualization software application

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

3D mesh processing using GAMer 2 to enable reaction-diffusion simulations in realistic cellular geometries

Publishing date: 2020-04-06 Published on: PLOS Computational Biology summary: None authors: Christopher T. Lee, Justin G. Laughlin, Nils Angliviel de La Beaumelle, Rommie E. Amaro, J. Andrew McCammon, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Michael Holst, Padmini Rangamani

Leveraging open hardware to alleviate the burden of COVID-19 on global health systems

Publishing date: 2020-04-06 Published on: Preprints.org summary: In the global response to COVID-19 there is a shortfall of staffing, facilities, and equipment facing up to high demand for diagnosis, isolation, and treatment.