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Science Research Weekly
By Mark R WilliamsonScience
Science Research Weekly episodes
- What Soft Robot Hands You Have (Season 3: Episode 24)
Get ready for astronomy fixes for microscopy misses, 3D-printed soft robot actuator hands, cosmic kidney disease, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Linear Models, and a grant to understand oral phage biology. Science On.
References:
- Phase-diversity-based wavefront sensing for fluorescence microscopy
- Fully 3D-Printed Miniature Soft Hydraulic Actuators with Shape Memory Effect for Morphing and Manipulation (paper)
- Fully 3D-Printed Miniature Soft Hydraulic Actuators with Shape Memory Effect for Morphing and Manipulation (video)
- Cosmic kidney disease: an integrated pan-omic, physiological and morphological study into spaceflight-induced renal dysfunction
- A possible direct exposure of the Earth to the cold dense interstellar medium 2–3 Myr ago
- The distribution of the R-square statistic
- Free Report: DataCamp’s The State of Data & AI Literacy Report 2024
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Linear Models
- NIDCR: Support for Research on Understanding Phage Biology in the Oral Cavity
- DoD: Breast Cancer Breakthrough Award Levels 1 and 2
R Packages:
- futureverse: Easily Install and Load the 'Futureverse'
- BioPred: An R Package for Biomarkers Analysis in Precision Medicine
- rsurv: Random Generation of Survival Data
5 min - Millions of Peptides, Billions of Rows (Season 3: Episode 23)
Get ready for rival to PRC, a massive antimicrobial peptide catalog, the One Billon Row Challenge in R, and custom color palettes for ggplot. Science On.
References:
- AMPLON: Amplifying DNA with Multiarm Priming and Looping Optimization of Nucleic Acid
- Discovery of antimicrobial peptides in the global microbiome with machine learning
- Journal of Statistical Software Volume 109
- R One Billion Row Challenge: Is R Viable Option for Analyzing Huge Datasets?
- Simple custom colour palettes with R ggplot graphs
- RStudio Shortcuts and Settings
R Packages:
- ggarrow: Arrows for 'ggplot2'
- pastaPlot: Spaghetti-Plot Fixed and Random Effects of Linear Mixed Models
- codewhere: Find the Location of an R Package's Code
5 min - Stomp-Rocket of the Gods (Season 3: Episode 22)
Get ready for mini-double-satellites, stomp-rocket volcanoes, exoplanets galore, and leech-like blood collection devices. Science On.
References:
- A contact binary satellite of the asteroid (152830) Dinkinesh
- Cell-type-specific consequences of mosaic structural variants in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells
- Follow-up to Adolescence after Early Peanut Introduction for Allergy Prevention
- Explosive 2018 eruptions at Kīlauea driven by a collapse-induced stomp-rocket mechanism
- The TESS-Keck Survey. XX. 15 New TESS Planets and a Uniform RV Analysis of All Survey Targets
- A Bioinspired and Cost-Effective Device for Minimally Invasive Blood Sampling
- Find the label of a variable in SAS
- Plotting weather data with ggplot()
R Packages:
- ggfoundry: Shape Foundry Geom for 'ggplot2'
6 min - It’s a Cell-Eat-Cell World (Season 3: Episode 21)
Get ready for marathonic vibrating strings, widespread cell cannibalism, spiny fossil arachnids, a Hex Logo Design Context for R packages, and a new NASA program element for a Consortium in Biological Sciences. Science On.
References:
- Centimeter-scale nanomechanical resonators with low dissipation
- Integrating human endogenous retroviruses into transcriptome-wide association studies highlights novel risk factors for major psychiatric conditions
- Cell-in-cell phenomena across the tree of life
- Three concurrent mechanisms generate gene copy number variation and transient antibiotic heteroresistance
- A remarkable spiny arachnid from the Pennsylvanian Mazon Creek Lagerstätte, Illinois
- How to Split a Number into Digits in R Using gsub() and strsplit()
- How to Split a Vector into Chunks in R
- Get a Free New Logo for Your R Package in Our Hex Design Contest
- NASA: E.11 Consortium in Biological Sciences
R Packages:
- CDGHMM: Hidden Markov Models for Multivariate Panel Data
6 min - R-Code with a Shotgun (Season 3: Episode 20)
Get ready for a cotton candy planet, 3D printing bristleworms, robotic ‘SuperLimbs’, Bioconductor 3.19, dire direction to document your R code, and playing Doom on Shiny. Science On.
References:
- An extended low-density atmosphere around the Jupiter-sized planet WASP-193 b
- Ribosomal DNA copy number variation associates with hematological profiles and renal function in the UK Biobank
- Dynamic microvilli sculpt bristles at nanometric scale
- Structural anisotropy results in mechano-directional transport of proteins across nuclear pores
- Systematic epigenome editing captures the context-dependent instructive function of chromatin modifications
- Robotic “SuperLimbs” could help moonwalkers recover from falls
- funGp: An R Package for Gaussian Process Regression with Scalar and Functional Inputs Rank, order, and sorting
- Bioconductor 3.19 Released
- Shiny for Python Shinylive: How to Run Shiny for Python Apps Without a Python Server
- Documenting My Code … For Me
- Treemaps In R
- If Doom runs everywhere, it must run on Shiny
R Packages:
- srcpkgs: R Source Packages Manager
- EXPAR: Fitting of Exponential Autoregressive (EXPAR) Model
8 min - IceCube in a Glass of Quantum Gravity (Season 3: Episode 19)
Get ready for magnetic water cleaning microbots, myelin regeneration, the search for quantum gravity, visualizing missing values in SAS, and a grant for transformative cancer research. Science On.
References:
- Magnetic Microrobot Swarms with Polymeric Hands Catching Bacteria and Microplastics in Water
- Small-molecule-induced epigenetic rejuvenation promotes SREBP condensation and overcomes barriers to CNS myelin regeneration
- Search for decoherence from quantum gravity with atmospheric neutrinos
- Journal of Statistical Software Volume 109
- Visualize patterns of missing values
- R Meets Hardware
- Notes on Citing R and R Packages
- NSF: Research Training Groups in the Mathematical Sciences
- Fanconi Cancer Foundation - AACR NextGen Grant for Transformative Cancer Research
R Packages:
- MIMER: Data Wrangling for Antimicrobial Resistance Studies
- SurvEval: Methods for the Evaluation of Survival Models
- rmdl: Language to Manage Many Models
5 min - Of Cosmic Glitches and Waffle Sketches (Season 3: Episode 18)
Get ready for picky archaeal parasites, a cosmic glitch in gravity, super sticky adhesive, Volume 15/4 of The R Journal, sketchy waffle charts, Super Saiyan Data Skills, and a Department of Defense grant for cancer. Science On.
References:
- Selective lipid recruitment by an archaeal DPANN symbiont from its host
- A cosmic glitch in gravity
- Fibrillar adhesives with unprecedented adhesion strength, switchability and scalability
- The R Journal: Volume 15/4
- Estimate a proportion and a confidence interval in SAS
- R/Medicine is coming June 10-14, 2024 – See Top Five R Medicine Talks from Previous Years
- Guide to Remove Legends in ggplot2 in R Programming
- Sketchy waffle charts in R
- Super Saiyan Data Skills: Mastering Big Data with R
- DoD Peer Reviewed Cancer, Idea Award
R Packages:
- karlen: Real-Time PCR Data Sets by Karlen et al. (2007)
- boggy: Real-Time PCR Data Sets by Boggy et al. (2010)
- SpatGC: Bayesian Modeling of Spatial Count Data
7 min - Cnidarian Nightlight (Season 3: Episode 17)
Get ready for friendly giant viruses, the ancient origins of bioluminescence, sneaky bacteria, R codename Puppy Cup, a Super Mario Bros. explanation of R piping, and grants for rare cancer research. Science On.
References:
- A giant virus infecting the amoeboflagellate Naegleria
- Evolution of bioluminescence in Anthozoa with emphasis on Octocorallia
- Burkholderia thailandensis uses a type VI secretion system to lyse protrusions without triggering host cell responses
- [Rd] R 4.4.0 is released
- Navigating the Data Pipes: An R Programming Journey with Mario Bros.
- NIH: Pathway to Independence Award
- NIH: Small Business Transition Grant For Early Career Scientists
- DoD: Rare Cancers, Concept Award
- GenScript Life Science Research Grant Program
R Packages:
- slap: Simplified Error Handling
- RobRegression: Robust Multivariate Regression
- donutsk: Construct Advanced Donut Charts
6 min - It’s Raining Antibiotics! (Season 3: Episode 16)
Get ready for umbrella antibiotics, staring into the nanovoid, blue-whale-sized ichthyosaurs (maybe), and astrodynamics knot theory applications. Science On!
References:
- Streptomyces umbrella toxin particles block hyphal growth of competing species
- Beyond nothingness in the formation and functional relevance of voids in polymer films
- The last giants: New evidence for giant Late Triassic (Rhaetian) ichthyosaurs from the UK
- Applications of knot theory to the detection of heteroclinic connections between quasi-periodic orbits
- Distributions with specified skewness and kurtosis
- How to Make Mobile Apps with R Shiny
R Packages:
- filters: A "Snake_case" Filter System for R
- relcircle: Draw Regulatory Relationships Between Genes
5 min - Dark Stars and Metastatic Microbiomes (Season 3: Episode 15)
Get ready for the pan-cancer microbiome, auto-parameterizing 3D printing, Bergmann’s rule busted for dinosaurs, and Proca stars made out of dark matter. Science On!
References:
- A pan-cancer analysis of the microbiome in metastatic cancer
- Human brain small extracellular vesicles contain selectively packaged, full-length mRNA
- Online Measurement for Parameter Discovery in Fused Filament Fabrication
- An integrated metagenomic, metabolomic and transcriptomic survey of Populus across genotypes and environments
- Global latitudinal gradients and the evolution of body size in dinosaurs and mammals
- Proca stars with dark photons from spontaneous symmetry breaking of the scalar field dark matter
- Journal of Statistical Software Volume 108
- The Truth About Tidy Wrappers
R Packages:
- IRR2FPR: Computing False Positive Rate from Inter-Rater Reliability
- WayFindR: Computing Graph Structures on WikiPathways
- CARMS: Continuous Time Markov Rate Modeling for Reliability Analysis
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