Low-cost (<€5), open-source, potential alternative to commercial spectrophotometers
Spectrophotometry is a fundamental technique in many areas of science, with many applications and uses. The...
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Open Source Tracking and Analysis of Adult Drosophila Locomotion in Buridan’s Paradigm with and without Visual Targets
Background Insects have been among the most widely used model systems for studying the control of...
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OpenCFU, a New Free and Open-Source Software to Count Cell Colonies and Other Circular Objects
Counting circular objects such as cell colonies is an important source of information for biologists. Although...
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Track-A-Worm, An Open-Source System for Quantitative Assessment of C. elegans Locomotory and Bending Behavior
A major challenge of neuroscience is to understand the circuit and gene bases of behavior. C....
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The Wiggle Index: An Open Source Bioassay to Assess Sub-Lethal Insecticide Response in Drosophila melanogaster
Toxicological assays measuring mortality are routinely used to describe insecticide response, but sub-lethal exposures to insecticides...
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Low cost and open source multi-fluorescence imaging system for teaching and research in biology and bioengineering
The advent of easy-to-use open source microcontrollers, off-the-shelf electronics and customizable manufacturing technologies has facilitated the...
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Development and validation of open-source software for DNA mixture interpretation based on a quantitative continuous model
In criminal investigations, forensic scientists need to evaluate DNA mixtures. The estimation of the number of...
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An open source microcontroller based flume for evaluating swimming performance of larval, juvenile, and adult zebrafish
Zebrafish are a preferred vertebrate model for delineating genotype-phenotype relationships. One of the most studied features...
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Design and validation of an open-source modular Microplate Photoirradiation System for high-throughput photobiology experiments
Research in photobiology is currently limited by a lack of devices capable of delivering precise and...
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An open source algorithm to detect natural gas leaks from mobile methane survey data
The data collected by mobile methane (CH4) sensors can be used to find natural gas (NG)...
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