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November 2015

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

Kingman reef

November 10, 2015

Can we measure beauty?

Researchers have shown that an objective computational analysis of photographic images can be used to assess the health of a coral reef. The results have even wider posible application. The authors have also created a website using the techniques developed in this article where you can upload your own image to and get an 'aesthetic' score back.

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November 19, 2015

Splicing Express: a software suite for alternative splicing analysis using next-generation sequencing data

Jose E. Kroll, Jihoon Kim, Lucila Ohno-Machado, Sandro J. de Souza

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1419 PubMed 26618088

November 5, 2015

Characterization of the salivary microbiome in patients with pancreatic cancer

Pedro J. Torres, Erin M. Fletcher, Sean M. Gibbons, Michael Bouvet, Kelly S. Doran, Scott T. Kelley

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1373 PubMed 26587342

November 24, 2015

Assessing the utility of the Oxford Nanopore MinION for snake venom gland cDNA sequencing

Adam D. Hargreaves, John F. Mulley