We are the Amaral Lab at @NorthwesternU. We Study Complex Systems, Science of Science, and Systems Biology.

Joined September 2013
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13 May 2024
Today, we are proud to release Rainflow! šŸŒˆā›ˆļøā˜”ļø Rainflow is a Desktop application for macOS designed to help researchers with reproducible analysis and integration of their Flow Cytometry data. Rainflow is available on the App Store now: apps.apple.com/us/app/rainfl…
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Researchers at Endeavor Health and Northwestern University have created an artificial intelligence-based tool to help doctors recognize an underdiagnosed, often fatal respiratory syndrome found in critically ill hospital patients. trib.al/CQgZAi5
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26 Aug 2025
We're proud to share that lab member @Tulachin's work on automating ARDS detection was published in @NatureComms! The team developed an NLP/machine learning-based algorithm that can outperform clinicians in identifying this life-threatening ICU condition. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-6…
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7 Aug 2025
A study identifies the footprint of entities cooperating to produce scientific fraud at scale, including paper mills and brokers. The number of fraudulent publications is growing far faster than legitimate publications. In PNAS: ow.ly/CHkM50WBuLX
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Straight from this paper: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2417688…

12 Nov 2024
Scientists Develop Approach to Accurately Predict Pneumonia Outcomes - Machine-learning approach using health records identifies five pneumonia ā€˜states’ with predictable prognoses. news.feinberg.northwestern.e…
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Today our lab presented two posters at CoDEx, hosted by @Northwestern_IT !
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Congrats @spencercodes on a great thesis seminar!
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"@ScienceMagazine and Retraction Watch’s investigation suggests authors, journals, and institutions all benefit from the scheme, which floods the literature with poor-quality publications and casts doubt on metrics of scholarly output and impact." science.org/content/article/…
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Our own Reese Richardson just defended his PhD thesis and received his program's Outstanding Dissertation award! Way to go, Dr. Richardson! šŸŽŠ Thanks to the big event, we finally have an updated lab photo! Some people could not make it and were scaled up by 1000% as penance. 😊
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šŸ“¢ Exciting New Publication Alert! 🫁 "Robust Extraction of Pneumonia-Associated Clinical States from Electronic Health Records" by Feihong Xu, FĆ©lix Morales and LuĆ­s Amaral has just been published in the PNAS! doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2417688… 🧵
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šŸŒBroader Impact: This work represents a significant step towards more nuanced, data-informed approaches to ICU patient management, potentially improving mortality prediction and resource allocation in healthcare systems worldwide.
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Congratulations to Reese Richardson on his successful PhD defense. For a youngster šŸ˜› he’s already had a huge impact on research integrity. šŸ„‚ reeserichardson.blog/2024/10…
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