Short sentences (prose, not prison)
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Monthly archives: February, 2014
PLoS One requires full data release with publication
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authors must make all data publicly available, without restriction, immediately upon publication of the article
Examples could include spreadsheets of original measurements (of cells, of fluorescent intensity, of respiratory volume), large datasets such as next-generation sequence…
ACQ4: A Python-based open source system for neurophysiology
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Luke Campagnola, Megan Kratz, and Paul Manis recently published their in-house software for neurophysiology experiments. It’s an extensive set of tools, including multiphoton imaging, photostimulation mapping, image mosaic construction, electrophysiology, and more.
Website: acq4.org
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More resources
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André Maia Chagas recently pointed us towards his blog, Open Neuroscience. It turned us on to Sparkfun’s educational section. It’s very extensive and well curated.
By the way, Sparkfun also has education discount…
Box plots vs. bar charts
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Nature Methods has a special on box plots, and in particular, the web app BoxPlotR.
Box plots are great. However, the conventions for box plots are not completely uniform (see below), and that…