Post provided by Liam MacNeil
Collecting data from thousands of biological specimens can reveal wide scale patterns, however, doing this manually is time intensive. In this blog post, Liam MacNeil describes their automated approach to data collection and the insights this provided on mudsnail morphology.
Continue reading “Measuring the mighty mudsnails with superpixels”
Each year Methods in Ecology and Evolution awards the Robert May Prize to the best paper in the journal by an author at the start of their career. Arthur Porto has been shortlisted for his article ‘ML‐morph: A fast, accurate and general approach for automated detection and landmarking of biological structures in images’. In this blog, Arthur discusses how his paper came to be and describes development of the ML-morph pipeline.
Continue reading “The need to quantify complex shapes”Issue 7.4 is now online!
The April issue of Methods is now online!
This month’s issue contains two Applications articles and one Open Access article, all of which are freely available.
– CPW Photo Warehouse: freely available software that has been customized to identify, archive, and transform photographs into data formats required for statistical analyses. Users navigate a series of point-and-click menu items that allow them to input information from camera deployments, import photos and store data. Images are seamlessly incorporated into the database windows, but are stored separately.
– SIMR: An R package that allows users to calculate power for generalized linear mixed models from the lme4 package. The power calculations are based on Monte Carlo simulations. It includes tools for (i) running a power analysis for a given model and design; and (ii) calculating power curves to assess trade-offs between power and sample size.
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