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Modeling blow fly development for postmortem interval (PMI) estimation

Lucilia sericata mouthhooks

March 3, 2015

Modeling blow fly development for postmortem interval (PMI) estimation

Knowing the development behavior of blow flies is important for forensic investigations into the time of death. This study examined the development of Lucilia sericata under different temperature regimes. It is one of the first to elucidate fundamentally important assumptions made by practitioners in the field.

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March 3, 2015

VaRank: a simple and powerful tool for ranking genetic variants

Véronique Geoffroy, Cécile Pizot, Claire Redin, Amélie Piton, Nasim Vasli, Corinne Stoetzel, André Blavier, Jocelyn Laporte, Jean Muller

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.796 PubMed 25780760

March 5, 2015

Population structure of Neisseria gonorrhoeae based on whole genome data and its relationship with antibiotic resistance

Matthew N. Ezewudo, Sandeep J. Joseph, Santiago Castillo-Ramirez, Deborah Dean, Carlos del Rio, Xavier Didelot, Jo-Anne Dillon, Richard F. Selden, William M. Shafer, Rosemary S. Turingan, Magnus Unemo, Timothy D. Read

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.806 PubMed 25780762

March 3, 2015

Arioc: high-throughput read alignment with GPU-accelerated exploration of the seed-and-extend search space

Richard Wilton, Tamas Budavari, Ben Langmead, Sarah J. Wheelan, Steven L. Salzberg, Alexander S. Szalay

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.808 PubMed 25780763

March 17, 2015

GROM-RD: resolving genomic biases to improve read depth detection of copy number variants

Sean D. Smith, Joseph K. Kawash, Andrey Grigoriev

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.836 PubMed 25802807

March 26, 2015

Low-cost, low-input RNA-seq protocols perform nearly as well as high-input protocols

Peter A. Combs, Michael B. Eisen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.869 PubMed 25834775

March 26, 2015

A predictive model for canine dilated cardiomyopathy—a meta-analysis of Doberman Pinscher data

Siobhan Simpson, Jennifer Edwards, Richard D. Emes, Malcolm A. Cobb, Nigel P. Mongan, Catrin S. Rutland

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.842 PubMed 25834770

March 3, 2015

Towards an easier creation of three-dimensional data for embedding into scholarly 3D PDF (Portable Document Format) files

Axel Newe

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.794 PubMed 25780759

March 17, 2015

Evolution of a research field—a micro (RNA) example

Máire-Caitlín Casey, Michael J. Kerin, James A. Brown, Karl J. Sweeney

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.829 PubMed 25802804

March 5, 2015

CauseMap: fast inference of causality from complex time series

M. Cyrus Maher, Ryan D. Hernandez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.824 PubMed 25780776

March 31, 2015

A reproducible approach to high-throughput biological data acquisition and integration

Daniela Börnigen, Yo Sup Moon, Gholamali Rahnavard, Levi Waldron, Lauren McIver, Afrah Shafquat, Eric A. Franzosa, Larissa Miropolsky, Christopher Sweeney, Xochitl C. Morgan, Wendy S. Garrett, Curtis Huttenhower

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.791 PubMed 26157642

March 24, 2015

Bayesian inference of protein structure from chemical shift data

Lars A. Bratholm, Anders S. Christensen, Thomas Hamelryck, Jan H. Jensen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.861 PubMed 25825683

March 31, 2015

A questions-based investigation of consumer mental-health information

Colleen E. Crangle, Joyce Brothers Kart

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.867 PubMed 25870768

March 5, 2015

Using network clustering to predict copy number variations associated with health disparities

Yi Jiang, Hong Qin, Li Yang