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: 2018-12-10
Published on: PLOS NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES
summary: Although the plaque reduction neutralization test (PRNT) is an important assay for measuring neutralizing antibody responses against many viruses, no free, open-source programs specifically designed for virus plaque counting and neutralizing antibody titer estimation are available.
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.
Publishing date: 2018-10-23
Published on: PLOS ONE
summary: This paper introduces GC4S, a bioinformatics-oriented collection of high-level, extensible, and reusable Java GUI elements specifically designed to speed up bioinformatics software development.
Publishing date: 2018-10-23
Published on: PLOS Computational Biology
summary: In this paper, Gelfman et al. present an open-source R package ‘meaRtools’ that provides a platform for analyzing neuronal networks recorded on Microelectrode Arrays (MEAs).
Publishing date: 2018-10-01
Published on: MethodsX
summary: In a nice example of adapting an existing tool, Daniel F.Carlson and Søren Rysgaard used OS control boards for Drones and its respective software as dataloggers to measure Iceberg characteristics (eg movement speed, orientation over time).
Publishing date: 2018-10-01
Published on: HardwareX
summary: This review of micromanipulator designs from Iiro Hietanen et al puts three open source alternatives through their paces with rigorous experimental testing, and explains the trade-off and decisions in weighing up cost and precision.