The world of biomedical apps: their uses, limitations, and potential

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Berg B, Cortazar B, Tseng D, Ozkan H, Feng S, Wei Q, Chan, R.Y.L., Burbano, J., Farooqui, Q., Lewinski, M. and Di Carlo, D. Cellphone-based hand-held microplate reader for point-of-care testing of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays. ACS Nano. 2015;9(8):7857–66.
Chan WT, Verma CS, Lane DP, Gan SKE. A comparison and optimization of methods and factors affecting the transformation of Escherichia coli. Biosci Rep. 2013;33(6):931–7. doi: 10.1042/bsr20130098 .
Christodouleas DC, Nemiroski A, Kumar AA, Whitesides GM. Broadly Available Imaging Devices Enable High-Quality Low-Cost Photometry. Anal Chem. 2015;87(18):9170–8.
Coskun AF, Wong J, Khodadadi D, Nagi R, Tey A, Ozcan A. A personalized food allergen testing platform on a cellphone. Lab Chip. 2013;13(4):636–40.
Fu Q, Wu Z, Li X, Yao C, Yu S, Xiao W, Tang, Y. Novel versatile smart phone based Microplate readers for on-site diagnoses. Biosens Bioelectron. 2016;81:524–31.
Nemiroski A, Christodouleas DC, Hennek JW, Kumar AA, Maxwell EJ, Fernández-Abedul MT, Whitesides, G. M. Universal mobile electrochemical detector designed for use in resource-limited applications. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 2014;111(33):11984–9.
Nguyen P-V, Verma CS, Gan SK-E. DNAApp: a mobile application for sequencing data analysis. Bioinformatics. 2014;30(22):3270.
Rajendran VK, Bakthavathsalam P, Ali BMJ. Smartphone based bacterial detection using biofunctionalized fluorescent nanoparticles. Microchim Acta. 2014;181(15–16):1815–21.
Sim JZ, Nguyen PV, Zang Y, Gan SKE. (2016) DNA2App: Mobile sequence analyzer. Scientific Phone Apps and Mobile Devices. Vol 2(2). doi: 10.1186/s41070-016-0004-7 .
Sim JZ, Nguyen PV, Lim PHJ, Su TTC, Gan SKE. (2015) The Rise of the Mobile Lab: the Use of Smartphone Apps for Biomedical Research. Asia Pacific Biotech News, Vol 19, 58 doi: 10.1142/S021903031500021X .
Walzik MP, Vollmar V, Lachnit T, Dietz H, Haug S, Bachmann H, Fath, M., Aschenbrenner, D., Mofrad, S.A., Friedrich, O. and Gilbert, D.F. A portable low-cost long-term live-cell imaging platform for biomedical research and education. Biosens Bioelectron. 2015;64:639–49.

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[1] Barbosa AI, Gehlot P, Sidapra K, Edwards AD, Reis NM. Portable smartphone quantitation of prostate specific antigen (PSA) in a fluoropolymer microfluidic device. Biosens Bioelectron. 2015;70:5–14.

[2] Berg B, Cortazar B, Tseng D, Ozkan H, Feng S, Wei Q, Chan, R.Y.L., Burbano, J., Farooqui, Q., Lewinski, M. and Di Carlo, D. Cellphone-based hand-held microplate reader for point-of-care testing of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays. ACS Nano. 2015;9(8):7857–66.

[3] Chan WT, Verma CS, Lane DP, Gan SKE. A comparison and optimization of methods and factors affecting the transformation of Escherichia coli. Biosci Rep. 2013;33(6):931–7. doi: 10.1042/bsr20130098 .

[4] Christodouleas DC, Nemiroski A, Kumar AA, Whitesides GM. Broadly Available Imaging Devices Enable High-Quality Low-Cost Photometry. Anal Chem. 2015;87(18):9170–8.

[5] Coskun AF, Wong J, Khodadadi D, Nagi R, Tey A, Ozcan A. A personalized food allergen testing platform on a cellphone. Lab Chip. 2013;13(4):636–40.

[6] Fu Q, Wu Z, Li X, Yao C, Yu S, Xiao W, Tang, Y. Novel versatile smart phone based Microplate readers for on-site diagnoses. Biosens Bioelectron. 2016;81:524–31.

[7] Nemiroski A, Christodouleas DC, Hennek JW, Kumar AA, Maxwell EJ, Fernández-Abedul MT, Whitesides, G. M. Universal mobile electrochemical detector designed for use in resource-limited applications. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 2014;111(33):11984–9.

[8] Nguyen P-V, Verma CS, Gan SK-E. DNAApp: a mobile application for sequencing data analysis. Bioinformatics. 2014;30(22):3270.

[9] Rajendran VK, Bakthavathsalam P, Ali BMJ. Smartphone based bacterial detection using biofunctionalized fluorescent nanoparticles. Microchim Acta. 2014;181(15–16):1815–21.

[10] Sim JZ, Nguyen PV, Zang Y, Gan SKE. (2016) DNA2App: Mobile sequence analyzer. Scientific Phone Apps and Mobile Devices. Vol 2(2). doi: 10.1186/s41070-016-0004-7 .

[11] Sim JZ, Nguyen PV, Lim PHJ, Su TTC, Gan SKE. (2015) The Rise of the Mobile Lab: the Use of Smartphone Apps for Biomedical Research. Asia Pacific Biotech News, Vol 19, 58 doi: 10.1142/S021903031500021X .

[12] Walzik MP, Vollmar V, Lachnit T, Dietz H, Haug S, Bachmann H, Fath, M., Aschenbrenner, D., Mofrad, S.A., Friedrich, O. and Gilbert, D.F. A portable low-cost long-term live-cell imaging platform for biomedical research and education. Biosens Bioelectron. 2015;64:639–49.