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An open source pharma roadmap

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.

phylo-node: A molecular phylogenetic toolkit using Node.js

Publishing date: 2017-04-14 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Damien M. O’Halloran link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0175480 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Cost and time-effective method for multi-scale measures of rugosity, fractal dimension, and vector dispersion from coral reef 3D models

Publishing date: 2017-04-13 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: G. C. Young, S. Dey, A. D. Rogers, D. Exton link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0175341 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Upon the Shoulders of Giants: Open-Source Hardware and Software in Analytical Chemistry

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.

Low-cost feedback-controlled syringe pressure pumps for microfluidics applications

Publishing date: 2017-04-03 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: Editors note: This paper describes how to build a closed loop control system for microfluidics, based on Arduino and 3D printed parts. It improves on existing syringe pumps as this system has a feedback loop that measures the pressure in the system and allows for more precise control of the volumes injected.

Gathering for Open Science Hardware 2017: building a movement

Publishing date: 2017-03-27 Published on: PLOS Blogs summary: Read about the GOSH 2017 and catch up on some of the highlights from Santiago, Chile. authors: Andre Maia Chagas, Max Liboiron, Jenny Molloy, Juan Manuel Garcia Arcos and Jeffrey Warren

An efficient and cost effective FPGA based implementation of the Viola-Jones face detection algorithm

Publishing date: 2017-03-25 Published on: HardwareX summary: None authors: Peter Irgens, Curtis Bader, Theresa Lé, Devansh Saxena, Cristinel Ababei link to paper: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ohx.2017.03.002 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

VorteX Clustering Environment

Publishing date: 2017-03-23 Published on: Github summary: VorteX is a graphical tool for cluster analysis of multiparametric datasets in biology, especially single-cell data. It provides multithreaded implementations of clustering algorithms, including nonparametric density-based X-shift, Hierarchical clustering, Mean-shift and K-medoids.

Gathering for Open Science Hardware 2017

Publishing date: 2017-03-22 Published on: GOSH summary: The Gathering for Open Science Hardware (GOSH) is a diverse, global community working to enhance the sharing of open, scientific technologies. In 2017 GOSH goal is to build a roadmap to bring together the people, skills and tools needed to make open science hardware ubiquitous by 2025

GOSH Community Forum

Publishing date: 2017-03-22 Published on: GOSH summary: This is the right place for discussions about the 2017 Gathering for Open Science Hardware that takes place in Santiago, Chile. Read notes on sessions here.