Archive for the 'SciLit' Category

Phylomemetics—Evolutionary Analysis beyond the Gene

September 21, 2014

Phylomemetics—Evolutionary Analysis beyond the Gene
http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001069 #Phylogenetics for texts, languages & artifacts (w/ recoding)

BoxPlotR: a web tool for generation of box plots

September 21, 2014

They published a paper on a web tool to generate box plots !! http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v11/n2/full/nmeth.2811.html QT:{{”
Despite the obvious advantages of the box plot for simultaneous representation of data set and statistical parameters, this method is not in common use, in part because few available software tools allow the facile generation of box plots. For example, the standard spreadsheet tool Excel is unable to generate box plots.

M.S. and J.W. conceived of the box plot tool
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Related:
http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/01/21/bioinformatics.btu038.abstract

1309.6001 Co-evolutionary dynamics in social networks: A case study of Twitter

September 19, 2014

http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.6001

PLOS Computational Biology: Ten Simple Rules of Live Tweeting at Scientific Conferences

September 19, 2014

10… Rules of Live Tweeting at Sci #Conferences by @eperlste http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1003789 Great list but no mention of #crowdsourced note taking

Is ecology explaining less and less?

September 15, 2014

Is #ecology explaining less & less? http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2014/08/ecology-explaining-less-and-less Over 100yr & 18k papers: more #pvalues but falling <r2>. What’s P for this trend?

Biostatistics: iCluster | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

September 10, 2014

simultaneously clustering of cancer data across data types, in a sense related to orthoclust
http://www.mskcc.org/research/epidemiology-biostatistics/biostatistics/icluster

PLOS Computational Biology: Waste Not, Want Not: Why Rarefying Microbiome Data Is Inadmissible

September 10, 2014

http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1003531

Constructing structural networks of signaling pathways on the proteome scale

September 6, 2014

Structural networks of signaling pathways
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959440X1200070X Prism on IL10 #networks, mapping on Cosmic, disrupting mutations as drivers

What Can Article-Level Metrics Do for You?

September 1, 2014

What Can Article-Level Metrics Do for You
http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001687 Wide distribution of #cites for @PLOSBiology papers; median 19 but 10% >50

BMC Bioinformatics | Full text | BicSPAM: flexible biclustering using sequential patterns

August 31, 2014

Related to BIP KDD talk, dealing with overlapping biclusters http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/15/130