May 19, 2023
Episode 18: DNA, DNA Everywhere
Get ready for human environmental DNA, over-the-top cosmological energy, rafting microbes, bimodal biomass, Julia 1.9’s releases, SAS patents, the freeCodeCamp repository, and Department of Defense melanoma grants. Science On.
References:
* Inadvertent human genomic bycatch and intentional capture raise beneficial applications and ethical concerns with environmental DNA
* A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins
* Multiwavelength observations of the extraordinary accretion event AT2021lwx
* Chitin utilization by marine picocyanobacteria and the evolution of a planktonic lifestyle
* Ancient gene linkages support ctenophores as sister to other animals
* The sizes of life
* Julia 1.9 Highlights
* SAS inventors celebrate 54 new patents
* Poisson HMM: The model of count time series
* freeCodeCamp
* Awesome Remote Job
* DOD: Melanoma Idea Award
* NIA: Analyses of CALERIE Datasets and Biospecimens
* Burrough Wellcome Fund: PATH
* ACMG Foundation: Training Awards and Fellowships
R packages:
* BIDistances: Bioinformatic Distances
* rchemo: Dimension Reduction, Regression and Discrimination for Chemometrics
* ggflowchart: Flowcharts with 'ggplot2'