Research Article

Design and basic research on accuracy of a novel individualized three-dimensional printed navigation template in atlantoaxial pedicle screw placement

Publishing date: 2019-04-02 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Xiao-Long Chen, Ya-Fen Xie, Jian-Xin Li, Wu Wu, Guan-Nan Li, Hui-Jing Hu, Xiao-Yun Wang, Zhao-Jian Meng, Yue-Feng Wen, Wen-Hua Huang

Deploying Acoustic Detection Algorithms on Low-Cost, Open-Source Acoustic Sensors for Environmental Monitoring

Publishing date: 2019-03-28 Published on: Sensors summary: Conservation researchers require low-cost access to acoustic monitoring technology. However, affordable tools are often constrained to short-term studies due to high energy consumption and limited storage.

AutonoMouse: High throughput operant conditioning reveals progressive impairment with graded olfactory bulb lesions

Publishing date: 2019-03-28 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Andrew Erskine, Thorsten Bus, Jan T. Herb, Andreas T. Schaefer link to paper: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0211571 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Developing and adopting safe and effective digital biomarkers to improve patient outcomes

Publishing date: 2019-03-28 Published on: npj Digital Medicine summary: Biomarkers are physiologic, pathologic, or anatomic characteristics that are objectively measured and evaluated as an indicator of normal biologic processes, pathologic processes, or biological responses to therapeutic interventions.

Glucose biosensor based on open-source wireless microfluidic potentiostat

Publishing date: 2019-03-28 Published on: Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical summary: Wireless potentiostats capable of cyclic voltammetry and amperometry that connect to the Internet are emerging as key attributes of future point-of-care devices.

pyPhotometry: Open source Python based hardware and software for fiber photometry data acquisition

Publishing date: 2019-03-28 Published on: Scientific Reports summary: Channel Editor Summary: Fiber photometry allows researchers to record neural activity by measuring changes in fluorescence of chemical indicators using an optical fibre and is a powerful technique that is currently quite expensive to perform.

Sample treatment platform for automated integration of microextraction techniques and liquid chromatography analysis

Publishing date: 2019-03-28 Published on: HardwareX summary: Sample preparation performance influences the quality of every chemical analysis. Since it is the most labor-intensive stage in the nearly all-analytical protocols, sample preparation automation would be desirable, to increase the analytical throughput, maintaining precision and accuracy, while preventing risks of human exposure to chemical or biological agents.

PhyloPi: An affordable, purpose built phylogenetic pipeline for the HIV drug resistance testing facility

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 Icons made by catkuro from www.

Apollo: Democratizing genome annotation

Publishing date: 2019-02-27 Published on: PLOS Computational Biology summary: Genome annotation is the process of identifying the location and function of a genome’s encoded features. Improving the biological accuracy of annotation is a complex and iterative process requiring researchers to review and incorporate multiple sources of information such as transcriptome alignments, predictive models based on sequence profiles, and comparisons to features found in related organisms.

BioJava 5: A community driven open-source bioinformatics library

Publishing date: 2019-02-27 Published on: PLOS Computational Biology summary: Channel Editor Summary: BioJava is an open source project which provides a Java framework for processing biological data. The project offers analytical and statistical routines, parsers for common file formats, reference implementations of popular algorithms, and allows the manipulation of sequences and 3D structures.