The Journal Club - Life Sciences & Biotech

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used in biology to automate and simplify image analysis, predict protein structures, drug discovery, and even speed up writing and data analysis. AI can help you boast your performance in your research growth. Here are latest AI tools and resources for you speed up your research outcomes.

Small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split PDF documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface. - pdfarranger/p...

Plotting graphs from XVGs generated by GROMACS in Python - TheBiomics/GMXvg

GMXvg: Utility to Convert/Plot GROMACS XVG files Commandline based #GROMACS #XVG File plotting utility. • Discovers all the XVG files in the current or subdirectories and converts them in specified file formats (default JPG). • Logs the summary of plots in a file to quickly access the plot values along with their standard deviation values.

In recent years, there has been rising concern that tiny particles known as microplastics are showing up basically everywhere on Earth, from polar ice to soil, drinking water and food. Formed when plastics break down into progressively smaller bits, these particles are being consumed by humans and other creatures, with unknown potential health and ecosystem effects. One big focus of research: bottled water, which has been shown to contain tens of thousands of identifiable fragments in each container. Now, using newly refined technology, researchers have entered a whole new plastic world: the poorly known realm of nanoplastics, the spawn of microplastics that have broken down even further. For the first time, they counted and identified these minute particles in bottled water. They found that on average, a liter contained some 240,000 detectable plastic fragments -- 10 to 100 times greater than previous estimates, which were based mainly on larger sizes.