Research Article

Cost and time-effective method for multi-scale measures of rugosity, fractal dimension, and vector dispersion from coral reef 3D models

Publishing date: 2017-04-13 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: G. C. Young, S. Dey, A. D. Rogers, D. Exton link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0175341 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Low-cost feedback-controlled syringe pressure pumps for microfluidics applications

Publishing date: 2017-04-03 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: Editors note: This paper describes how to build a closed loop control system for microfluidics, based on Arduino and 3D printed parts. It improves on existing syringe pumps as this system has a feedback loop that measures the pressure in the system and allows for more precise control of the volumes injected.

An efficient and cost effective FPGA based implementation of the Viola-Jones face detection algorithm

Publishing date: 2017-03-25 Published on: HardwareX summary: None authors: Peter Irgens, Curtis Bader, Theresa Lé, Devansh Saxena, Cristinel Ababei link to paper: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ohx.2017.03.002 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

NicoLase—An open-source diode laser combiner, fiber launch, and sequencing controller for fluorescence microscopy

Publishing date: 2017-03-16 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: None authors: Philip R. Nicovich, James Walsh, Till Böcking, Katharina Gaus link to paper: 10.1371/journal.pone.0173879 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Interactive reconstructions of cranial 3D implants under MeVisLab as an alternative to commercial planning software

Publishing date: 2017-03-06 Published on: PLOS ONE summary: The use of implants that are specificaly designed for each patient is currently bounded to the use of expensive software or by the use of open source alternatives that are time consuming and labour intensive.

Microsco-pi: a novel and inexpensive way of merging biology and IT

Publishing date: 2017-03-06 Published on: Sussex Research Online summary: None authors: Jonathan P Bacon, Harry R Kent link to paper: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/66499/ Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

Mindboggling morphometry of human brains

Publishing date: 2017-02-23 Published on: PLOS Computational Biology summary: None authors: Arno Klein, Satrajit S. Ghosh, Forrest S. Bao, Joachim Giard, Yrjö Häme, Eliezer Stavsky, Noah Lee, Brian Rossa, Martin Reuter, Elias Chaibub Neto, Anisha Keshavan

Metacoder: An R package for visualization and manipulation of community taxonomic diversity data

Publishing date: 2017-02-21 Published on: PLOS Computational Biology summary: Community-level data, the type generated by an increasing number of metabarcoding studies, is often graphed as stacked bar charts or pie graphs that use color to represent taxa.

Open Design 3D-Printable Adjustable Micropipette that meets ISO Standard for Accuracy

Publishing date: 2017-02-20 Published on: bioRxiv summary: None authors: Martin Brennan, Fahad Bokhari, David Eddington link to paper: http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/02/20/109231 Icons made by catkuro from www.flaticon.com

A time-sorting pitfall trap and temperature datalogger for the sampling of surface-active arthropods

Publishing date: 2017-02-16 Published on: HardwareX summary: Editors note: This paper describes a nifty and high-throughput way to collect bugs in the field while continuously monitoring the temperature as well as the time when each animal fell into each trap.