Behind the Paper
The real stories behind the latest research papers, from conception to publication, the highs and the lows
Back to the future with regional climate modelling
Almost a century ago, against the backdrop of the Great Depression, North America's Great Plains were devastated by drought, dust and record heat—known as the Dust Bowl decade. We set out to understand more about the Dust Bowl heatwaves and to achieve this, we sought help from people world-wide.
What drives differences in human mobility?
Human mobility contributes to economic development but also acts as a major vector for disease importation.
By Moritz U.G. Kraemer and Nahema A. Marchal
SCCAF: machine learning infers putative cell types
We describe SCCAF a computational approach to identify putative cell clusters from single-cell RNA-seq data. SCCAF automatically identifies the “ground truth” cell assignments with high accuracy in various benchmark datasets and captures the discriminative feature genes of the cell types.
