Research Article

High-speed device synchronization in optical microscopy with an open-source hardware control platform

Publishing date: 2019-09-05 Published on: Scientific Reports summary: High-speed synchronization of multiple devices is a necessity for modern optical microscopy techniques and this paper simplifies the process for those building custom microscope systems by providing a hardware control platform that reduces the need for custom software while expanding the scope of compatible peripheral devices.

Internet of Things Applied in Healthcare Based on Open Hardware with Low-Energy Consumption

Publishing date: 2019-09-05 Published on: Healthcare Informatics Research summary: The Internet of Things (IoT) and its applications are growing simultaneously. These applications need new intelligent devices along heterogeneous networking. Which makes them costly to implement indeed.

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.

Open collaborative writing with Manubot

Publishing date: 2019-08-16 Published on: PLOS Computational Biology summary: Traditionally, scholarly manuscripts have been written in private by a predefined team of collaborators. But now the internet enables realtime open science, where project communication occurs online in a public venue and anyone is able to contribute.

Kankanet: An artificial neural network-based object detection smartphone application and mobile microscope as a point-of-care diagnostic aid for soil-transmitted helminthiases

Publishing date: 2019-08-05 Published on: PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases summary: None authors: Ariel Yang, Nahid Bakhtari, Liana Langdon-Embry, Emile Redwood, Simon Grandjean Lapierre, Patricia Rakotomanga, Armand Rafalimanantsoa, Juan De Dios Santos, Inès Vigan-Womas, Astrid M.

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.

3D μ F - Interactive Design Environment for Continuous Flow Microfluidic Devices

Publishing date: 2019-07-29 Published on: Scientific Reports summary: In this paper, the authors present an interactive tool for designing continuous flow microfluidic devices. 3DμF is the first completely open source interactive microfluidic system designer that readily supports state of the art design automation algorithms.

Multi-immersion open-top light-sheet microscope for high-throughput imaging of cleared tissues

Publishing date: 2019-07-29 Published on: Nature Communications summary: Recent advances in optical clearing and light-sheet microscopy have provided unprecedented access to structural and molecular information from intact tissues. However, current light-sheet microscopes have imposed constraints on the size, shape, number of specimens, and compatibility with various clearing protocols.

On the Economic Value of Open Source Hardware – Case Study of an Open Source Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scanner

Publishing date: 2019-07-29 Published on: Journal of Open Hardware summary: Increasing maturation and dissemination of easy-to-use and affordable means of digital production (e.g. 3D printing), access to these in makerspaces and FabLabs as well as powerful tools and online platforms for virtual and collaborative product design enabled the highly efficient and innovative mode of open source to spill over from software to hardware.

Open(G)PIAS: An Open-Source Solution for the Construction of a High-Precision Acoustic Startle Response Setup for Tinnitus Screening and Threshold Estimation in Rodents

Publishing date: 2019-07-29 Published on: Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience summary: None authors: Richard Gerum, Hinrich Rahlfs, Matthias Streb, Patrick Krauss, Jannik Grimm, Claus Metzner, Konstantin Tziridis, Michael Günther, Holger Schulze, Walter Kellermann and Achim Schilling