PLOS ONE

PuLSE: Quality control and quantification of peptide sequences explored by phage display libraries

Publishing date: 2018-02-23 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Steven Shave, Stefan Mann, Joanna Koszela, Alastair Kerr, Manfred Auer link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0193332 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Design of a 3D-printed, open-source wrist-driven orthosis for individuals with spinal cord injury

Publishing date: 2018-02-22 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Alexandra A. Portnova, Gaurav Mukherjee, Keshia M. Peters, Ann Yamane, Katherine M. Steele link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0193106 Icons made by catkuro from www.

High-Throughput Tabular Data Processor – Platform independent graphical tool for processing large data sets

Publishing date: 2018-02-12 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: High-throughput technologies generate considerable amount of data which often requires bioinformatic expertise to analyze. Here, Ptior Madanecki et al present High-Throughput Tabular Data Processor (HTDP), a platform independent Java program.

MEA Viewer: A high-performance interactive application for visualizing electrophysiological data

Publishing date: 2018-02-09 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Daniel C. Bridges, Kenneth R. Tovar, Bian Wu, Paul K. Hansma, Kenneth S. Kosik link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0192477 Icons made by catkuro from www.

Laser additive manufacturing of 3D meshes for optical applications

Publishing date: 2018-02-07 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Khamis Essa, Aydin Sabouri, Haider Butt, Fawzia Hamed Basuny, Mootaz Ghazy, Mahmoud Ahmed El-Sayed link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0192389 Icons made by catkuro from www.

Predicting outcome of Morris water maze test in vascular dementia mouse model with deep learning

Publishing date: 2018-02-07 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Akinori Higaki, Masaki Mogi, Jun Iwanami, Li-Juan Min, Hui-Yu Bai, Bao-Shuai Shan, Masayoshi Kukida, Harumi Kan-no, Shuntaro Ikeda, Jitsuo Higaki, Masatsugu Horiuchi

shinyGISPA: A web application for characterizing phenotype by gene sets using multiple omics data combinations

Publishing date: 2018-02-07 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Bhakti Dwivedi, Jeanne Kowalski link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0192563 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Improving mapping for Ebola response through mobilising a local community with self-owned smartphones: Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone, January 2015

Publishing date: 2018-01-03 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: During the 2014–16 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak, the Magburaka Ebola Management Centre (EMC) operated by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone, identified that available district maps lacked up-to-date village information to facilitate timely implementation of EVD control strategies.

A microfluidic thermometer: Precise temperature measurements in microliter- and nanoliter-scale volumes

Publishing date: 2017-12-28 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: These authors took up the challenge of creating a thermometer for accurate measurements of biological and chemical samples on the microliter or nanoliter scale.

Low cost and open source multi-fluorescence imaging system for teaching and research in biology and bioengineering

Publishing date: 2017-11-15 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: In this exciting design, the authors present a large-field of view fluorescence chamber for visualisation of, well, anything that fluoresceses. Using LEDs and low-cost acrylics the system is set-up to allow for convenient simultaneous imaging in multiple colours using an RGB camera.