Get ready for Green Saharan genomes, super-duckweed, Alzheimer’s blood tests, Volume 112 of the Journal of Statistical Software, a Litmus test for R packages, and the Top 40 New CRAN Packages for February 2025. Science On.
References:
- Ancient DNA from the Green Sahara reveals ancestral North African lineage
- Duckweed genomes and epigenomes underlie triploid hybridization and clonal reproduction
- Plasma MTBR-tau243 biomarker identifies tau tangle pathology in Alzheimer’s disease
- Genome duplication in a long-term multicellularity evolution experiment
- Cooperative hydrodynamics accompany multicellular-like colonial organization in the unicellular ciliate Stentor
- Journal of Statistical Software, Volume 112
- Did George Box say, "All models are wrong, but some are useful"?
- Nested bar charts in SAS
- Bayesian proportional hazards model for a stepped-wedge design
- Should I Use Your R Package?
- February 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages
R Packages:
- castgen: Estimate Sample Size for Population Genomic Studies
- ClassificationEnsembles: Automatically Builds 20 Classification Models
- ForecastingEnsembles: Time Series Forecasting Using 23 Individual Models
- NumericEnsembles: Automatically Runs 23 Individual and 17 Ensembles of Models
- pcpr: Principal Component Pursuit for Environmental Epidemiology
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