Get ready for synthetic microbe community therapy, VR taste testing, narwhal tusk behavior, detecting space debris, microbial patterns across the ISS, the Top 40 New CRAN Packages for January 2025, and Department of Defense grants for the MURI program. Science On.

References:

• A designed synthetic microbiota provides insight to community function in Clostridioides difficile resistance
• A sensor-actuator–coupled gustatory interface chemically connecting virtual and real environments for remote tasting
• Use of tusks by narwhals, Monodon monoceros, in foraging, exploratory, and play behavior
• The generation of whistler, lower hybrid, and magnetosonic waves by satellites passing through ionospheric magnetic field aligned irregularities
• The International Space Station has a unique and extreme microbial and chemical environment driven by use patterns
• R version 4.4.3 (Trophy Case) has been released
• A Bayesian proportional hazards model with a penalized spline
• Constructing the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
• Working with Clinical Trial Data? There’s a Pharmaverse Package for That
• January 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages
• Better documentation for R-universe!
• DoD: Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI)

R Packages:

• MetabolSSMF: Simplex-Structured Matrix Factorisation for Metabolomics Analysis
• mixtree: A Statistical Framework for Comparing Sets of Trees
• mbX: A Comprehensive Microbiome Data Processing Pipeline
• blit: Bioinformatics Library for Integrated Tools