More Spectra, Please
Posted in Tips
George McNamara is planning on updating the massive PubSpectra (previously mentioned here).
He’s currently soliciting submissions. Do you have any to contribute?
(link)
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Tag: openness
Easy Arduino projects just got even easier
Posted in Hardware
The killjoy afficiando commenters at Hack a Day love to deride as unsophisticated any project that uses an Ardunio (e.g. this thread). The platform has become so popular that, to co-opt a…
Proto open source
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Ars Technica has a short, but nice article on the US Government’s role in AT&T’s decision to release Unix to a wider…
OpenPCR: Now shipping
Posted in Hardware
Over a year ago, we covered the OpenPCR project. Following their successful Kickstarter campaign, which netted twice their funding goal, they’re now actually shipping the devices.
To start, this is a $512 PCR machine…
OpenMoCo for motion control
Posted in Hardware
OpenMoCo is short for “Open Motion Control”. The community is focussed on building rigs for moving cameras.
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HDF5 + XML = SDCubes
Posted in Software
A paper on data organization just came out in Nature Methods (Millard et al. 2011, commentary by Swedlow et al.). They believe, as do I, that using XML schema to organize…
OpenOptogenetics
When Karl Deisseroth started publishing his work on Channelrhodopsin-2, he set up a website to share the resources, including plasmid information, protocols for expression systems, and hardware details. His site, optogenetics.org, is an…
Citizen science article in NN
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Nature Neuroscience has a great article on citizen science in the September issue (link, subscription required).
In the article, they discuss that although the public already recognizes the value of publicly funded research, the…
DIY open access
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Even if you publish in a “closed” journal, you are typically allowed to post the PDF of your article on your personal…
Open Science Summit videos
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There are videos from the talks at the Open Science Summit online now. The topics include the OpenPCR and Otyp projects, open source drug discovery,…
Open science
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“Open” is a nice sounding word, not unlike “free”, that is used rather liberally whenever some bit of intellectual property is shared with the public. However, it can mean very different things in…
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