24 research outputs found
ShortRead: a bioconductor package for input, quality assessment and exploration of high-throughput sequence data
Summary: ShortRead is a package for input, quality assessment, manipulation and output of high-throughput sequencing data. ShortRead is provided in the R and Bioconductor environments, allowing ready access to additional facilities for advanced statistical analysis, data transformation, visualization and integration with diverse genomic resources
Comparing Methods for Analysis of Pupillary Response
Changes in eye-pupil size index a range of cognitive processes. However, variations in the protocols used to analyze such data
exist in the psychological literature. This raises the question of whether different approaches to pupillary response data influence
the outcome of the analysis. To address this question, four methods of analysis were compared, using pupillary responses to
sexually appetitive visual content as example data. These methods comprised analysis of the unadjusted (raw) pupillary response
data,z-scored data, percentage-change data, and data transformed by a prestimulus baseline correction. Across two experiments,
these methods yielded near-identical outcomes, leading to similar conclusions. This suggests that the range of approaches that are
employed in the psychological literature to analyze pupillary response data do not fundamentally influence the outcome of the
analysis. However, some systematic carryover effects were observed when a prestimulus baseline correction was applied,
whereby dilation effects from an arousing target on one trial still influenced pupil size on the next trial. This indicates that the
appropriate application of this analysis might require additional information, such as prior knowledge of the duration of carryover
effects
Enhances Rmpi License Artistic-2.0
Title String objects representing biological sequences, and matching algorithms Description Memory efficient string containers, string matching algorithms, and other utilities, for fast manipulation of large biological sequences or sets of sequences. Version 2.28.