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24 Jul 2018 | 13:00 GMT

TechBlog: PacBios are hackable, too

Posted by Jeffrey Perkel | Categories: Blog, Technology

TechBlog: PacBios are hackable, too

Sometimes, a DNA sequencer is more than it seems. In this month’s Technology Feature, I talk to the researchers who have figured out ways to squeeze new life from an outdated DNA sequencer, the Illumina GAIIx. That’s a popular choice for sequencer-hackers, but not the only one. Stanford structural biologist Joseph Puglisi uses a PacBio RSII from Pacific Biosciences to plumb the biochemistry of protein translation.  Read more

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  • Pacific Biosciences
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11 Jun 2018 | 17:30 GMT

TechBlog: Git: The reproducibility tool scientists love to hate

Posted by Jeffrey Perkel | Categories: Blog, Technology

TechBlog: Git: The reproducibility tool scientists love to hate

Early in his graduate career, John Blischak found himself creating figures for his advisor’s grant application.  Read more

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  • C. Titus Brown
  • GitHub
  • Greg Wilson
  • jeffrey perkel
  • John Blischak
  • reproducibility
  • Software Carpentry
  • techblog
  • technology

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23 May 2018 | 12:00 GMT

TechBlog: Tell-tale LIPSTIC reveals cell-cell interactions

Posted by Jeffrey Perkel | Categories: Blog, Technology

TechBlog: Tell-tale LIPSTIC reveals cell-cell interactions

The mammalian immune system is a sprawling network of cells, each with unique properties and functions. As discussed in my latest Technology Feature, immunologists have developed a range of technologies to characterize those populations, from mass cytometry to single-cell DNA sequencing.  Read more

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  • esther landhuis
  • Gabriel Victora
  • immunology
  • techblog
  • technology

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07 May 2018 | 12:00 GMT

Lattice light-sheet microscopy gets an AO upgrade

Posted by Jeffrey Perkel | Categories: Blog, Technology

Lattice light-sheet microscopy gets an AO upgrade

In late 2014, just a month after learning he had won that year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for superresolution microscopy, Eric Betzig and colleagues described a technique that has taken the microscopy world by storm.  Read more

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  • jeffrey perkel
  • lattice light-sheet microscopy
  • live-cell imaging
  • microscopy
  • techblog
  • technology

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16 Apr 2018 | 12:00 GMT

Machine learning gets a journal for interactive figures

Posted by Jeffrey Perkel | Categories: Blog, Publishing, Technology

Machine learning gets a journal for interactive figures

Distill wants to be a sandbox for what a scientific paper can be  … Read more

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  • Anna Nowogrodzki
  • Christopher Olah
  • distill
  • interactive figures
  • techblog
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11 Apr 2018 | 12:00 GMT

Put your email inbox on a low-spam diet

Posted by Jeffrey Perkel | Categories: Blog, Communication, Technology

Put your email inbox on a low-spam diet

Mark Clemons has published over 250 papers over the past two-plus decades, nearly all of them involving breast cancer. So imagine his surprise when Clemons, a medical oncologist at the University of Ottawa, Canada, received a flattering email inviting him to submit his work to, of all places, a journal focusing on yoga research.  Read more

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  • jeffrey perkel
  • Kelly Cobey
  • Mark Clemons
  • Mark Gerstein
  • open access
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  • predatory publisher
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  • technology

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23 Feb 2018 | 12:00 GMT

TechBlog: Software quality tests yield best practices

Posted by Jeffrey Perkel | Categories: Blog, Technology

TechBlog: Software quality tests yield best practices

Life science research increasingly runs on software. A good fraction, perhaps even most of it, is made by academics, for academics: Rough around the edges, perhaps, but effective — not to mention free. But, is it of high quality?  Read more

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  • Alexandros Stamatakis
  • bioinformatics
  • evolutionary biology
  • jeffrey perkel
  • phylogenetics
  • techblog
  • technology

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20 Feb 2018 | 12:00 GMT

TechBlog: ‘Manubot’ powers a crowdsourced ‘deep-learning’ review

Posted by Jeffrey Perkel | Categories: Blog, Technology

TechBlog: 'Manubot' powers a crowdsourced 'deep-learning' review

In Nature‘s February technology feature on ‘deep learning‘, a kind of artificial intelligence whose usage is spiking in life science research, author Sarah Webb points readers to a ‘comprehensive, crowd-sourced’ review of the field.  Read more

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  • artificial intelligence
  • Bitcoin
  • Casey Greene
  • deep learning
  • GitHub
  • jeffrey perkel
  • Manubot
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12 Feb 2018 | 12:00 GMT

TechBlog: eLife replaces commenting system with Hypothesis annotations

Posted by Jeffrey Perkel | Categories: Blog, Technology

TechBlog: eLife replaces commenting system with Hypothesis annotations

The next time you feel moved to comment on an article in the open-access online journal eLife, be prepared for a different user experience.  Read more

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07 Feb 2018 | 12:00 GMT

TechBlog: Interactive figures, a mea culpa

Posted by Jeffrey Perkel | Categories: Blog, Technology

TechBlog: Interactive figures, a mea culpa

For the 1 February issue of Nature magazine, I wrote a Toolbox article on interactive figures. Unlike static PDFs or JPEGs, these figures allow users to explore the underlying data and code used to create them, for instance to zoom in on a crowded region of interest, or to probe the robustness of a computational model.  Read more

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