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AWARDEES: Manu Prakash and Jim Cybulski FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCIES: National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health Picture a microscope. You are likely imagining a heavy metal base,...

Optimal regeneration success in Amazonian forests is mapped by simple ecological indicators, providing reference values for measuring restoration success across successional stages based on a large co...

I am a co-author on a new paper that just came out. Nutritional niches of potentially endemic, facultatively anaerobic heterotrophs from an isolated Antarctic terrestrial hydrothermal refugium eluc…

Provides utilities to describe posterior distributions and Bayesian models. It includes point-estimates such as Maximum A Posteriori (MAP), measures of dispersion (Highest Density Interval - HDI; Krus...

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Nucleotide second messengers are key components of molecular information processing pathways and networks that allow bacteria and archaea to navigate and adapt

Abstract. The current climate crisis has global impacts and will affect the physiology of plants across every continent. Ensuring resilience of our agricul

Abstract. Mapping in situ eddy covariance measurements of terrestrial land–atmosphere fluxes to the globe is a key method for diagnosing the Earth system from a data-driven perspective. We describe th...

Responses of roots can reveal the strategies and vulnerabilities of tropical ecosystems facing present and future global changes. This analysis of 266 root trait observations from 93 studies across 2...

A catalogue of software projects developed through the Janelia Open Science Software Initiative (OSSI), as well as other software developed by teams at Janelia Research Campus.

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Biologists increasingly rely on computer code to collect and analyze their data, reinforcing the importance of published code for transparency, reproducibility, training, and a basis for further work...