Abstract Machine learning has become a pivotal tool for many projects in computational
biology, bioinformatics, and health informatics. Nevertheless, beginners and biomedical …

The problems we face in the 21st century require innovative thinking from all of us. Be it
students, academics, business researchers of government policy makers. Hopes for …

Searching for Darwinian selection in natural populations has been the focus of a multitude of
studies over the last decades. Here we present the 1000 Genomes Selection Browser 1.0 …

Open-source software development has had significant impact, not only on society, but also
on scientific research. Papers describing software published as open source are amongst …

In order to attempt to understand the complexity inherent in nature, mathematical, statistical
and computational techniques are increasingly being employed in the life sciences. In …

An enormous wealth of digital tools now exists for collaborating on scholarly research
projects. In particular, it is now possible to collaboratively author research articles in an …

Background Visual perception is initiated in the photoreceptor cells of the retina via the
phototransduction system. This system has shown marked evolution during mammalian …

Myrmecologists have long studied the systematics, b ehavior, ecology, and evolution of ants.
This first involved funda-mental approaches including morphological descripti on or …

The scale and intensity of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) worldwide pandemic is
unprecedented in all our lifetimes. It has changed our lifestyles and our workstyles, in a …

A PhD project in many ways is akin to an adventure quest, and like any quest, you may
quickly find yourself in uncharted territories. The interdisciplinary nature of modern research …