Synthesizer: Expediting synthesis studies from context-free data with natural language processing

…, J Gumm, B Fertig, MJ Kennish, S Chavan, A Thessen… - bioRxiv, 2016 - biorxiv.org
Today’s low cost digital data provides unprecedented opportunities for scientific discovery
from synthesis studies. For example, the medical field is revolutionizing patient care by …

[PDF][PDF] LANDMARK REPORT

S Britt - 1998 - digitalcommons.wku.edu
The residence atthe intersection of Chestnut Street and 13th Avenue (1302 Chestnut) has
been the home of the Farnsworth family since its completion in 1908, a fact few houses in the …

[HTML][HTML] Adoption of machine learning techniques in ecology and earth science

A Thessen - One Ecosystem, 2016 - oneecosystem.pensoft.net
… Training the ANN involves an iterative search for an optimal set of connection weights that
produces an output with a small error relative to the target. After every iteration, the weights …

Intra-and interspecies differences in growth and toxicity of Pseudo-nitzschia while using different nitrogen sources

AE Thessen, HA Bowers, DK Stoecker - Harmful algae, 2009 - Elsevier
Clonal cultures of plankton are widely used in laboratory experiments and have contributed
greatly to knowledge of microbial systems. However, many physiological characteristics vary …

[BOOK][B] Taxonomy and ecophysiology of Pseudo-nitzschia in the Chesapeake Bay

AE Thessen - 2007 - search.proquest.com
Pseudo-nitzschia is a diatom genus known to produce the neurotoxin, domoic acid (DA),
which causes Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning (ASP) and Domoic Acid Poisoning (DAP). Field …

Data infrastructures for estuarine and coastal ecological syntheses

AE Thessen, B Fertig, JC Jarvis, AC Rhodes - Estuaries and coasts, 2016 - Springer
Holistic understanding of estuarine and coastal environments across interacting domains with
high-dimensional complexity can profitably be approached through data-centric synthesis …

[HTML][HTML] A new paradigm for the scientific enterprise: nurturing the ecosystem

AK Lancaster, AE Thessen, A Virapongse - F1000Research, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The institutions of science are in a state of flux. Declining public funding for basic science, the
increasingly corporatized administration of universities, increasing “adjunctification” of the …

[HTML][HTML] Finding our way through phenotypes

…, CD Specht, RB Squires, RW Thacker, A Thessen… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Despite a large and multifaceted effort to understand the vast landscape of phenotypic data,
their current form inhibits productive data analysis. The lack of a community-wide, consensus…

[HTML][HTML] Challenges with using names to link digital biodiversity information

…, D Mozzherin, DP Shorthouse, A Thessen - Biodiversity data …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The need for a names-based cyber-infrastructure for digital biology is based on the
argument that scientific names serve as a standardized metadata system that has been used …

[PDF][PDF] A new paradigm for science: nurturing the ecosystem

AK Lancaster, AE Thessen, A Virapongse - PeerJ Preprints, 2018 - peerj.com
The institutions of science are in a state of flux. Declining public funding for basic science, the
increasingly corporatized administration of universities, increasing “adjunctification” of the …