The SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant rose to dominance in mid-2021, likely propelled by an
estimated 40%–80% increased transmissibility over Alpha. To investigate if this ostensible …

Cnidaria, the sister group to Bilateria, is a highly diverse group of animals in terms of morphology,
lifecycles, ecology, and development. How this diversity originated and evolved is not …

Gastropods are a highly diverse clade of molluscs that includes many familiar animals, such
as limpets, snails, slugs and sea slugs. It is one of the most abundant groups of animals in …

We introduce an embodied-interaction instructional design, the Mathematical Imagery
Trainer (MIT), for helping young students develop grounded understanding of proportional …

Background In the past decade, transcriptome data have become an important component
of many phylogenetic studies. They are a cost-effective source of protein-coding gene …

A series of experiments studied how visualization software scales to massive data sets.
Although several paradigms exist for processing large data, the experiments focused on pure …

Petascale plasma physics simulations have recently entered the regime of simulating trillions
of particles. These unprecedented simulations generate massive amounts of data, posing …

Modern scientific datasets present numerous data management and analysis challenges.
State-of-the-art index and query technologies are critical for facilitating interactive exploration …

HDF5 is a cross-platform parallel I/O library that is used by a wide variety of HPC applications
for the flexibility of its hierarchical object-database representation of scientific data. We …

Next generation sequencing (NGS) is a trending new standard for genotypic HIV-1 drug
resistance (HIVDR) testing. Many NGS HIVDR data analysis pipelines have been independently …