Science Research Weekly

Episode 18: DNA, DNA Everywhere

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Get ready for human environmental DNA, over-the-top cosmological energy, rafting microbes, bimodal biomass, Julia 1.9’s releases, SAS patents, the freeCodeCamp repository, and Department of Defense melanoma grants. Science On.


References:

  • Inadvertent human genomic bycatch and intentional capture raise beneficial applications and ethical concerns with environmental DNA
  • A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins
  • Multiwavelength observations of the extraordinary accretion event AT2021lwx
  • Chitin utilization by marine picocyanobacteria and the evolution of a planktonic lifestyle
  • Ancient gene linkages support ctenophores as sister to other animals
  • The sizes of life
  • Julia 1.9 Highlights
  • SAS inventors celebrate 54 new patents
  • Poisson HMM: The model of count time series
  • freeCodeCamp
  • Awesome Remote Job
  • DOD: Melanoma Idea Award
  • NIA: Analyses of CALERIE Datasets and Biospecimens
  • Burrough Wellcome Fund: PATH
  • ACMG Foundation: Training Awards and Fellowships


    • R packages:

    • BIDistances: Bioinformatic Distances
    • rchemo: Dimension Reduction, Regression and Discrimination for Chemometrics
    • ggflowchart: Flowcharts with 'ggplot2'
      • ...more
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      Science Research WeeklyBy Mark R Williamson