Publishing date: 2019-03-05
Published on: PLOS ONE
summary: None
authors: Phillip Armand Bester, Andrie De Vries, Stephanus Riekert, Kim Steegen, Gert van Zyl, Dominique Goedhals
link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0213241
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Publishing date: 2019-02-27
Published on: PLOS ONE
summary: The submission of DNA sequences to public sequence databases is an essential, but insufficiently automated step in the process of generating and disseminating novel DNA sequence data.
Publishing date: 2019-02-01
Published on: PLOS ONE
summary: The study of two- dimensional (2D) materials is a rapidly growing area within nanomaterials research. However, the high equipment costs, which include the processing systems necessary for creating these materials, can be a barrier to entry for some researchers interested in studying these novel materials.
Publishing date: 2019-01-17
Published on: PLOS ONE
summary: The exploration of hybrid quantum-classical algorithms and programming models on noisy near-term quantum hardware has begun. As hybrid programs scale towards classical intractability, validation and benchmarking are critical to understanding the utility of the hybrid computational model.
Publishing date: 2018-12-20
Published on: PLOS ONE
summary: CoCoNut removes the need for slow and eye-straining manual counting of viable colonies under a microscope. It’s a semi-automated, image-based cell colony counting setup that combines 3D-printed hardware and an ImageJ plugin.
Publishing date: 2018-12-20
Published on: PLOS ONE
summary: This nifty device measures partial pressure of oxygen in a similar manner to commercial devices, yet at substantially reduced cost. In a nutshell, a sinusoidally modulated LED excites a luminescent dye over time, while a photodiode picks up the spectrally shifted emission light from the dye.
Publishing date: 2018-12-10
Published on: PLOS ONE
summary: In recent years, the explosion of genomic data and bioinformatic tools has been accompanied by a growing conversation around reproducibility of results and usability of software.
Publishing date: 2018-12-10
Published on: PLOS ONE
summary: The classification of infections is a routine component of clinical management. Kameris is an open source toolkit for a supervised and alignment-free subtyping method which operates on HIV-1 sequences.
Publishing date: 2018-12-10
Published on: PLOS ONE
summary: Walking speed has been associated with many clinical outcomes (e.g., frailty, mortality, joint replacement need, etc.). Accurately measuring walking speed (stride length x step count/time) typically requires significant clinician/staff time or a gait lab with specialized equipment (i.
Publishing date: 2018-11-19
Published on: PLOS ONE
summary: This paper presents a useful open-source Microplate Photoirradiation System (MPS) for use in standard 96- and 24-well microplates that allows photobiologists to conduct a variety of experiments in a high-throughput format, inlcuding inside incubators.