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NUFEB: A massively parallel simulator for individual-based modelling of microbial communities

Publishing date: 2020-01-15 Published on: PLOS Computational Biology summary: None authors: Bowen Li, Denis Taniguchi, Jayathilake Pahala Gedara, Valentina Gogulancea, Rebeca Gonzalez-Cabaleiro, Jinju Chen, Andrew Stephen McGough, Irina Dana Ofiteru, Thomas P.

PyLandStats: An open-source Pythonic library to compute landscape metrics

Publishing date: 2020-01-15 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: Channel Editor Summary: PyLandStats is a fantastic example of an open source scientific package, with an open licence (GPL), clear documentation for both users and developers, and a source code repository set up to easily enable contributions and bug reports.

Ten quick tips for delivering programming lessons

Publishing date: 2020-01-15 Published on: PLOS Computational Biology summary: Teaching well is a craft like any other, and success often comes from an accumulation of small improvements rather than from any single large change.

Bionitio: demonstrating and facilitating best practices for bioinformatics command-line software

Publishing date: 2019-11-14 Published on: Giga Science summary: The authors have developed Bionitio, a tool that automates the process of starting new bioinformatics software projects following recommended best practices. With a single command, the user can create a new well-structured project in 1 of 12 programming languages.

DeepImpute: an accurate, fast, and scalable deep neural network method to impute single-cell RNA-seq data

Publishing date: 2019-11-14 Published on: Genome Biology summary: Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) offers new opportunities to study gene expression of tens of thousands of single cells simultaneously. The authors present DeepImpute, a deep neural network-based imputation algorithm that uses dropout layers and loss functions to learn patterns in the data, allowing for accurate imputation.

Introducing Mozilla Open Leaders X

Publishing date: 2019-11-14 Published on: Mozilla Foundation summary: Here are the new, community-run Open Leaders programs with diverse audiences that serve as entry-points into the internet health movement. From September through November, these programs have gone through movement building training and program-design mentorship in preparation to launch their own Open Leaders program in 2020.

Measuring sustainability of seed-funded earth science informatics projects

Publishing date: 2019-11-14 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: Short term funding is a common funding model for informatics projects. Funders are interested in maximizing the sustainability and accessibility of the outputs, but there are no commonly accepted practices to do so in the Earth sciences informatics field.

odMLtables: A User-Friendly Approach for Managing Metadata of Neurophysiological Experiments

Publishing date: 2019-11-14 Published on: Frontiers in Neuroinformatics summary: None authors: Julia Sprenger, Lyuba Zehl, Jana Pick, Michael Sonntag, Jan Grewe, Thomas Wachtler, Sonja Grün, and Michael Denker link to paper: https://doi.

Open Source Seed, a Revolution in Breeding or Yet Another Attack on the Breeder’s Exemption?

Publishing date: 2019-11-14 Published on: Frontiers in Plant Science summary: The Open Source Seed Initiative was initiated in 2012. Following concerns about the concentration in the seed sector and the rise of patenting, the initiative is “dedicated to maintaining fair and open access to plant genetic resources worldwide in order to ensure the availability of germplasm to farmers, gardeners, breeders, and communities of this and future generations.

Ramf: An Open-Source R Package for Statistical Analysis and Display of Quantitative Root Colonization by Arbuscular Mycorrhiza Fungi

Publishing date: 2019-11-14 Published on: Frontiers in Plant Science summary: None authors: Marco Chiapello, Debatosh Das and Caroline Gutjahr link to paper: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.01184 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com