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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.

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.

Agreement between the spatiotemporal gait parameters from two different wearable devices and high-speed video analysis

Publishing date: 2019-10-17 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: This study aimed to evaluate the concurrent validity of two different inertial measurement units for measuring spatiotemporal parameters during running on a treadmill, by comparing data with a high-speed video analysis (VA) at 1,000 Hz.

Joint emulation of Earth System Model temperature-precipitation realizations with internal variability and space-time and cross-variable correlation: fldgen v2.0 software description

Publishing date: 2019-10-17 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: Earth System Models (ESMs) are excellent tools for quantifying many aspects of future climate dynamics but are too computationally expensive to produce large collections of scenarios for downstream users of ESM data.

“My life after stroke through a camera lens”- A photovoice study on participation in Sweden

Publishing date: 2019-10-17 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: An increasing number of people with stroke live in their communities, yet the understanding of how their reintegration into society can best be facilitated is incomplete.

New methods of removing debris and high-throughput counting of cyst nematode eggs extracted from field soil

Publishing date: 2019-10-15 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Upender Kalwa, Christopher Legner, Elizabeth Wlezien, Gregory Tylka, Santosh Pandey link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223386 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

uORF-Tools – Workflow for the determination of translation-regulatory upstream open reading frames

Publishing date: 2019-09-26 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: Ribosome profiling (ribo-seq) provides a means to analyze active translation by determining ribosome occupancy in a transcriptome-wide manner. The vast majority of ribosome protected fragments (RPFs) resides within the protein-coding sequence of mRNAs.

Comparing record linkage software programs and algorithms using real-world data

Publishing date: 2019-09-24 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Alan F. Karr, Matthew T. Taylor, Suzanne L. West, Soko Setoguchi, Tzuyung D. Kou, Tobias Gerhard, Daniel B. Horton link to paper: 10.

Facilitating reproducible project management and manuscript development in team science: The projects R package

Publishing date: 2019-08-16 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: The contemporary scientific community places a growing emphasis on the reproducibility of research. The projects R package is a free, open-source package created in the interest of facilitating reproducible research workflows.

Low-cost solution for rodent home-cage behaviour monitoring

Publishing date: 2019-08-02 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Surjeet Singh, Edgar Bermudez-Contreras, Mojtaba Nazari, Robert J. Sutherland, Majid H. Mohajerani link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0220751 Icons made by catkuro from www.