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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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