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Sebastian Bassi, Fran Lewitter
This article introduces the world of the Python computer language. It is assumed that readers have some previous programming experience in at least one computer language and are familiar with basic concepts such as data types, flow control, and functions. Python can be used to solve several problems that research…
Berk Ekmekci, Charles E. McAnany, Cameron Mura, Francis Ouellette
Computing has revolutionized the biological sciences over the past several decades, such that virtually all contemporary research in molecular biology, biochemistry, and other biosciences utilizes computer programs. The computational advances have come on many fronts, spurred by fundamental developments in hardware…
Stephen Coshatt, He Yang, Shushan Wu, Jin Ye + 5 more
As machine learning and artificial intelligence are being integrated into cyber-physical systems, it is becoming important for engineers to know and understand these topics. In particular, sensor data is on the rise in these systems and therefore engineers need to understand which models are appropriate to time-series…
Gilderlanio Santana de Araújo
Teaching computer programming is not a simple task and it is challenging to introduce the concepts of programming in graduate programs of other fields. Little efforts have been made on engaging students in computational development after programming trainings. An emerging need is to establish subjects of bioinformatics…
Laura Mickes, Travis M. Seale-Carlisle, Xueqing Chen, Stewart Boogert
'Stewart Boogert'] pyWitness is a python toolkit for recognition memory experiments, with a focus on eyewitness identification (ID) data analysis and model fitting. The current practice is for researchers to use different statistical packages to analyze a single dataset. pyWitness streamlines the process. In addition…
Odd Petter Sand, Elise Lockwood, Marcos D. Caballero, Knut Mørken
We present here the lessons learned by iteratively designing a tutorial for first-year university students using computer programming to work with mathematical models. Alternating between design and implementation, we used video-taped task interviews and classroom observations to ensure that the design promoted student…
Anthony T. Bogetti, Jeremy M. G. Leung, John D. Russo, She Zhang + 11 more
We present six advanced tutorials instructing users in the best practices of using key new features and plugins/extensions of the WESTPA 2.0 software package, which consists of major upgrades for enabling applications of the weighted ensemble (WE) path sampling strategy to even larger systems and/or slower processes.…
Lucy Moctezuma, Lorena Benitez Rivera, Florentine van Nouhuijs, Faye Orcales + 4 more
This manuscript describes the development of a module that is part of a learning platform named “NIGMS Sandbox for Cloud-based Learning” https://github.com/NIGMS/NIGMS-Sandbox. The overall genesis of the Sandbox is described in the editorial NIGMS Sandbox at the beginning of this Supplement. This module delivers…
Matteo De Matola, Giorgio Arcara
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are a class of artificial neural networks (ANNs). Since the early 2010s, they have been widely adopted as models of primate vision and classifiers of neuroimaging data, becoming relevant for a wealth of neuroscientific fields. However, the majority of neuroscience researchers come…
Knut Rand, Ivar Grytten, Milena Pavlovic, Chakravarthi Kanduri + 1 more
Python is a popular and widespread programming language for scientific computing, in large part due to the powerful array programming library NumPy, which makes it easy to write clean, vectorized and efficient code for handling large datasets. A challenge with using array programming for biological data is that the…
Alex M. Ascension, Marcos J. Araúzo-Bravo
Big Data analysis is a discipline with a growing number of areas where huge amounts of data is extracted and analyzed. Parallelization in Python integrates Message Passing Interface via mpi4py module. Since mpi4py does not support parallelization of objects greater than 2^31^ bytes, we developed BigMPI4py, a Python…
Hsuan-Ta Lin, Po-Ming Lee, Tzu-Chien Hsiao
Tutorial tactics are policies for an Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) to decide the next action when there are multiple actions available. Recent research has demonstrated that when the learning contents were controlled so as to be the same, different tutorial tactics would make difference in students' learning gains.…