by Chris Tachibana | Jan 3, 2018 | ScienceWire
For Nature News and Comment, Wayt Gibbs (@WaytGibbs) offers a practical description of Bioconductor, a software toolkit for genomic data. Wayt includes a zippy demonstration video in which he uses Bioconductor to analyze gene expression data “all in an...
by Chris Tachibana | Jan 3, 2018 | ScienceWire
Timber, carbon storage, and wildlife habitat, Andrea Watts writes, are just some of the functions of our national forests. Andrea shows how the Pacific Northwest Research Station helps the U.S. Forest Service balance these multiple demands by modeling the effects of...
by Chris Tachibana | Jan 3, 2018 | ScienceWire
In case you missed it: Michelle Nijhuis’ story for National Geographic, How the parks of tomorrow will be different, was included the the 2017 collection The Best American Science and Nature Writing, edited by Hope Jahren. Take a tour with Michelle (@nijhuism)...
by Chris Tachibana | Jan 3, 2018 | ScienceWire
Negative results can be groundbreaking, Jim Barlow writes in a story for Around the O, with news from the University of Oregon. Jim (@jebarlow) explains how UO scientists tried—and failed—to use computer simulations to predict how a protein would be affected by string...
by Chris Tachibana | Dec 1, 2017 | ScienceWire
The GOP tax plan is threatening Ian Haydon’s future as a scientist. Ian is a University of Washington PhD student in biological physics, structure, and design. Since he’s also a science communicator, he took to the SynBioBeta forum to tell the synthetic...
