Tools and Resources

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    1. Neuroscience

    Neuroelectrophysiology-compatible electrolytic lesioning

    Iliana E Bray, Stephen E Clarke ... Paul Nuyujukian
    Neuronal loss can be studied by passing electrical current through the same electrodes used for neuron measurement without disrupting recording ability.
    1. Neuroscience

    Novel cyclic homogeneous oscillation detection method for high accuracy and specific characterization of neural dynamics

    Hohyun Cho, Markus Adamek ... Peter Brunner
    Detecting neural oscillations in time and frequency domains enables the detailed study of spatiotemporal dynamics of oscillations throughout the brain and the investigation of biomarkers that index functional brain areas.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    ImmCellTyper facilitates systematic mass cytometry data analysis for deep immune profiling

    Jing Sun, Desmond Choy ... Shahram Kordasti
    ImmCellTyper enhances CyTOF data analysis by combining expert biological knowledge with advanced clustering tools to provide an accurate, comprehensive, and user-friendly solution for high-dimensional immune profiling.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Ecology

    A rapid phylogeny-based method for accurate community profiling of large-scale metabarcoding datasets

    Lenore Pipes, Rasmus Nielsen
    Tronko provides a scalable solution for accurate taxonomic assignment for large-scale metabarcoding datasets by overcoming the speed and memory limitations of previous phylogenetic placement methods.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Quantitative mapping of proteasome interactomes and substrates using ProteasomeID

    Aleksandar Bartolome, Julia C Heiby ... Alessandro Ori
    Proximity labeling combined with mass spectrometry enables to map the proteasome proximal proteome in cells and mouse tissues.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Genetic code expansion, click chemistry, and light-activated PI3K reveal details of membrane protein trafficking downstream of receptor tyrosine kinases

    Duk-Su Koh, Anastasiia Stratiievska ... Sharona E Gordon
    The generation of phosphoinositide 3,4,5-trisphosphate causes an increase in the number of TRPV1 ion channels and insulin receptors in the plasma membrane.
    1. Neuroscience

    A dynamic generative model can extract interpretable oscillatory components from multichannel neurophysiological recordings

    Proloy Das, Mingjian He, Patrick L Purdon
    Oscillation component analysis enables cognitive neuroscientists to summarize millisecond-precision high-dimensional neurophysiological recordings into a smaller set of oscillatory components through biophysically inspired generative modeling of neural oscillations.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Probing PAC1 receptor activation across species with an engineered sensor

    Reto B Cola, Salome N Niethammer ... Tommaso Patriarchi
    A new genetically encoded sensor robustly detects exogenously applied PAC1R ligands in vitro, ex vivo, and in vivo (in zebrafishes and mice) serving as a useful resource for probing PAC1R functions.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Combining array tomography with electron tomography provides insights into leakiness of the blood-brain barrier in mouse cortex

    Georg Kislinger, Gunar Fabig ... Martina Schifferer
    An array tomography and electron tomography hybrid approach based on coated plastic tape as support advances ultrastructural analysis of biological phenomena that require cell- and tissue-level contextualization of the finest subcellular textures.