Monthly archives: February, 2014

Short sentences (prose, not prison)

A good commentary on using short sentences in writing, from PT.



PLoS One requires full data release with publication

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 reads, verbatim…



Mammalian brains



ACQ4: A Python-based open source system for neurophysiology

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



More resources

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 that Labrigger…



Box plots vs. bar charts

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 can lead…