Research Article

Low-cost and precise inline pressure sensor housing and DAQ for use in laboratory experiments

Publishing date: 2020-06-15 Published on: Hardware X summary: None authors: Luke Goertzen, Nicole Mehr, Manuel Lopez, Chet Udell, John S.Selker link to paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ohx.2020.e00112 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

PlanktonScope: Affordable modular imaging platform for citizen oceanography

Publishing date: 2020-06-15 Published on: bioRxiv summary: None authors: Thibaut Pollina, Adam G. Larson, Fabien Lombard, Hongquan Li, Sebastien Colin, Colomban de Vargas, Manu Prakash link to paper: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.23.056978 Icons made by catkuro from www.

SiCTeC: an inexpensive, easily assembled Peltier device for rapid temperature shifting during single-cell imaging

Publishing date: 2020-06-15 Published on: bioRxiv summary: None authors: Benjamin D. Knapp, Lillian Zhu, Kerwyn Casey Huang link to paper: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.29.123166 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

The Incubot: A 3D Printer-Based Microscope for Long-Term Live Cell Imaging within a Tissue Culture Incubator

Publishing date: 2020-06-15 Published on: bioRxiv summary: Commercial live cell imaging systems represent a large financial burden to research groups, while current open source incubator microscopy systems lack adaptability and are sometimes inadequate for complex imaging experimentation.

A practical 3D-printed soft robotic prosthetic hand with multi-articulating capabilities

Publishing date: 2020-05-14 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Alireza Mohammadi, Jim Lavranos, Hao Zhou, Rahim Mutlu, Gursel Alici, Ying Tan, Peter Choong, Denny Oetomo link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0232766

ProteinVR: Web-based molecular visualization in virtual reality

Publishing date: 2020-05-12 Published on: PLOS Computational Biology summary: Channel Editor Summary: Have you ever wondered what proteins look like? In fact, accurately conceptualizing 3D protein structures is vital to both scientific research and education.

Scedar: A scalable Python package for single-cell RNA-seq exploratory data analysis

Publishing date: 2020-04-27 Published on: PLOS Computational Biology summary: None authors: Yuanchao Zhang, Man S. Kim, Erin R. Reichenberger, Ben Stear, Deanne M. Taylor link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007794 Icons made by catkuro from www.

Dataflow programming for the analysis of molecular dynamics with AViS, an analysis and visualization software application

Publishing date: 2020-04-21 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Kai Pua, Daisuke Yuhara, Sho Ayuba, Kenji Yasuoka link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0231714 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

3D mesh processing using GAMer 2 to enable reaction-diffusion simulations in realistic cellular geometries

Publishing date: 2020-04-06 Published on: PLOS Computational Biology summary: None authors: Christopher T. Lee, Justin G. Laughlin, Nils Angliviel de La Beaumelle, Rommie E. Amaro, J. Andrew McCammon, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Michael Holst, Padmini Rangamani

Leveraging open hardware to alleviate the burden of COVID-19 on global health systems

Publishing date: 2020-04-06 Published on: Preprints.org summary: In the global response to COVID-19 there is a shortfall of staffing, facilities, and equipment facing up to high demand for diagnosis, isolation, and treatment.