Science Research Weekly

Episode 13: Crazy Ants, Crazier Viruses

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Get ready for chimeric crazy ants, viruses abounding in protists and infants alike, solar system generation in R, an awesome Python list, and a couple of nifty niche funding opportunities. Science On.


References:

  • Obligate chimerism in male yellow crazy ants
  • Large-scale invasion of unicellular eukaryotic genomes by integrating DNA viruses
  • Expanding known viral diversity in the healthy infant gut
  • Make “Solar System” Plots With {ggsolar}
  • Awesome Python
  • Microsoft PowerToys
  • NOSI: Assembling the Addiction Organelle Interactome
  • NIAID: Mechanisms of Neurotropic Virus-mediated Disease


    • R-packages:

    • fakir: Generate Fake Datasets for Prototyping and Teaching
    • betaNB: Bootstrap for Regression Effect Sizes
    • npclust: Nonparametric Tests for Incomplete Clustered Data
    • SQI: Soil Quality Index
      • ...more
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      Science Research WeeklyBy Mark R Williamson