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A low-cost fluorescence reader for in vitro transcription and nucleic acid detection with Cas13a

Publishing date: 2020-02-07 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Florian Katzmeier, Lukas Aufinger, Aurore Dupin, Jorge Quintero, Matthias Lenz, Ludwig Bauer, Sven Klumpe, Dawafuti Sherpa, Benedikt Dürr, Maximilian Honemann, Igor Styazhkin, Friedrich C.

Exploiting open source 3D printer architecture for laboratory robotics to automate high-throughput time-lapse imaging for analytical microbiology

Publishing date: 2020-02-07 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Sarah H. Needs, Tai The Diep, Stephanie P. Bull, Anton Lindley-Decaire, Partha Ray, Alexander D. Edwards link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0224878

Fieldwork-based determination of design priorities for point-of-use drinking water quality sensors for use in resource-limited environments

Publishing date: 2020-02-07 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Michael S. Bono Jr., Sydney Beasley, Emily Hanhauser, A. John Hart, Rohit Karnik, Chintan Vaishnav link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0228140 Icons made by catkuro from www.

One-shot phase-recovery using a cellphone RGB camera on a Jamin-Lebedeff microscope

Publishing date: 2020-02-07 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Benedict Diederich, Barbora Marsikova, Brad Amos, Rainer Heintzmann link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0227096 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

LeMaRns: A Length-based Multi-species analysis by numerical simulation in R

Publishing date: 2020-02-03 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Michael A. Spence, Hayley J. Bannister, Johnathan E. Ball, Paul J. Dolder, Christopher A. Griffiths, Robert B. Thorpe link to paper: 10.

An accurate, precise, and affordable light emitting diode spectrophotometer for drinking water and other testing with limited resources

Publishing date: 2020-01-29 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Michael W. Prairie, Seth H. Frisbie, K. Kesava Rao, Anyamanee H. Saksri, Shreyas Parbat, Erika J. Mitchell link to paper: 10.

FlexGraph: Flexible partitioning and storage for scalable graph mining

Publishing date: 2020-01-24 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Chiwan Park, Ha-Myung Park, U. Kang link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0227032 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

A network-centric approach for estimating trust between open source software developers

Publishing date: 2020-01-15 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Hitesh Sapkota, Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, Yi Wang link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0226281 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Assemblage of Focal Species Recognizers—AFSR: A technique for decreasing false indications of presence from acoustic automatic identification in a multiple species context

Publishing date: 2020-01-15 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Ivan Braga Campos, Todd J. Landers, Kate D. Lee, William George Lee, Megan R. Friesen, Anne C. Gaskett, Louis Ranjard

Exploring thematic structure and predicted functionality of 16S rRNA amplicon data

Publishing date: 2020-01-15 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: Analysis of microbiome data involves identifying co-occurring groups of taxa associated with sample features of interest such as disease state. A key challenge in this is the composition and dimensionality of microbiome data.