Olabode Anise, and Jordan Wright, two researchers at Duo Security, have released an open source tool to identify bots on Twitter. The researchers gathered data from Twitter using the platform’s API and applied 20 traits they identified as bot behavior. They were able to identify two classifications of bots: a cryptocurrency giveaway scam, and social […]
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After landing the Curiosity rover on Mars, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California built an educational model of the rover to teach robotics principles to high school and university students all over the US. While demonstrating this rover, they routinely received questions about how organizations could build one of their own, so the […]
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Google has released DeepVariant as open source. From the announcement: Today, we announce the open source release of DeepVariant, a deep learning technology to reconstruct the true genome sequence from HTS sequencer data with significantly greater accuracy than previous classical methods. This work is the product of more than two years of research by the Google Brain […]
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A partnership between Intel and the Broad Institue of MIT and Harvard will soon result in the release of the Genome Analysis ToolKit (GATK) under and open source license. Version 4 of the software will include a large number of improvements in addition to being open source. More than 45,000 researchers use GATK worldwide. Read […]
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In an effort to expand on their successes in medical research apps with the release of ResearchKit, Apple has released CareKit, a framework for making healthcare apps, as open source. Apple plans to release the software in April, and the company said the software is aimed at making things easier for users to track their health […]
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The first Gathering for Open Science Hardware (GOSH) took place in Geneva, Switzerland on March 2-5, 2016. The primary goal was to develop an initial roadmap to promote widespread use of open hardware in science, and it included the presence of a number of open science projects and organizations including OpenPlant, Hackteria, DropBot, OpenTrons, and […]
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Scientific research has been held back to some extent in recent years due to the restrictions the traditional publishing model imposes. A number of tools have been built to remedy this, including the Open Science Framework: a cloud-based management system for scientific research, and GitLab: a popular platform for hosting digital resources like software code. […]
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Check out this short video that explains how SageMath is ready to compete with Mathmatica.
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ResearchKit is a new open source framework that can be used to conduct medical research. Apple released it on GitHub and it currently only works on iOS devices, something Apple hopes to address by making it open source. The app is built from three primary blocks: Participant Consent, Surveys, and Active Tasks. The goal is […]
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Both the software and pharmaceutical industries are experiencing ongoing problems with hampered innovation due to burdensome patent law. In 2007, Médecins Sans Frontières created a new innovation inducement prize for tuberculosis that gave a proportion of the prize money to any researchers who produced open work that contributed to the winning product. The idea was […]
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Open access journals provide an alternative to expensive paid journals for use in research and they help propagate knowledge by making it more accessible. Here are five great open access journals that provide a wealth of high quality, free information. First Monday – Covers communication issues on the internet such as censorship and digital media […]
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CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, establishes the leading edge of scientific research in learning about the fundamental structures of the universe. Linux has played a major role at CERN, most notably through the development of Scientific Linux, a Linux distribution that makes it easy for scientists to set up and use a set […]
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Academia has a significant problem with reproducibility in research that includes large data sets and code. Researchers often need to write code as a part of their research and many of these researchers and the publishers they use don’t fully understand the importance of sharing this code so others can reproduce the research. Github has […]
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Isaac Yonemoto is a chemist who has been writing software code his whole life. Now, he is launching a campaign to produce the first open source treatment for cancer, using a compound called 9-DS, the result of Soviet research and the more recent work of Barbara Gerratana at the University of Maryland. Yonemoto is currently […]
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As computers are used more and more for scientific research, journals have struggled to keep up with the sheer amount of data produced by computer systems during experiments. Many journals have attempted to publish larger amounts of this data, but we still have not reached a point where individuals everywhere can reproduce the results of […]
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An independent group of people have taken control of a NASA satellite for the first time ever. The ISEE-3 satellite has been in space for 36 years and has remained unused for over 20 due to a dead battery. However, solar panels allow for 98% of the satellite to remain functional, so a small team […]
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The European nuclear research facility, CERN, displayed their commitment to open source software during the recent OSCON. CERN generates immense amounts of information and distributes that information to scientific teams all over the planet, currently CERN maintains over 100 petabytes of data and generates an additional 35 petabytes of data every year. The team at […]
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Many modern scientific journals suffer from problems associated with a lack of access to the underlying data and code to scientific research. The inability to replicate code or data can make it extremely challenging for other scientists to replictate research, and considering that more than 80% of all scientific research is publicly or charitably funded […]
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Ushahidi develops open source software for communities to track distributed, crowd-sourced data tools that can help in a variety of situations including crisis response and evaluation and government operations. More from Sci Dev Net.
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Common Characteristics of an Open Source Community
This article is part of The Comprehensive Guide to Open Source for Business., and was originally posted on the Samsung Open Source Group blog. Open source communities are as complex as the diverse individuals that contribute to them, and there is no one-size-fits-all definition of how they operate. With that said, there are a lot […]
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Pharmaceutical research has been bogged down by exceptionally high costs and extended clinical trials that are becoming less and less effective. It appears this industry is ripe for adopting open practices in the development process, and many executives and researchers are looking for ways to make drug research more transparent while protecting the interests of […]
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As computers are used more and more for scientific research, journals have struggled to keep up with the sheer amount of data produced by computer systems during experiments. Many journals have attempted to publish larger amounts of this data, but we still have not reached a point where individuals everywhere can reproduce the results of […]
