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This dataset accompanies the research paper "Nine circles of elastic brittle fracture: A series of challenge problems to assess fracture models" by Kamarei, Zeng, Dolbow, and Lopez-Pamies, CMAME (2026). The dataset contains computational mesh files, figure data, and supporting materials for nine standardized challenge problems designed to assess fracture models in isotropic elastic brittle materials under quasi-static loading conditions. The nine challenge problems span the complete range of fracture nucleation and propagation mechanisms: strength nucleation (uniaxial tension, biaxial tension, torsion), Griffith nucleation (pure-shear, double cantilever beam, trousers), and strength-Griffith mediated nucleation (single edge notch, indentation, poker-chip). The dataset includes: High-quality mesh files for all nine challenge problems Figure data and results for both linear elastic (soda-lime glass) and non-linear elastic (PU elastomer) brittle materials

Data at the lake summary and individual crayfish level that supports the manuscript Sawyer, E.K., Kreps, T. A., Lodge, D. M. and E.R. Larson. “Long-term declines in body size of the invasive rusty crayfish (Faxonius rusticus) in temperate lakes." Includes size measurements of 69,303 individual rusty crayfish (Faxonius rusticus) for 17 lakes of Vilas County, Wisconsin, United States collected between 1980 and 2020.

The TrackDLO data release supports the paper, "TrackDLO: Tracking Deformable Linear Objects Under Occlusion with Motion Coherence," published in Robotics and Automation: Letters. The TrackDLO data release includes the raw image and depth data for tracking Deformable Linear Objects (DLOs) under tip occlusion, large-scale mid-section occlusion, and self-occlusion. The released data are Robot Operating System (ROS1) bag files containing raw color images and point clouds. The data were collected using a static Intel Realsense d-435 RGB-D camera while DLOs in the field of view of the camera were manipulated. The data can be used to benchmark the performance of future vision-only DLO tracking algorithms in several manipulation scenarios relevant to DLOs and to verify existing vision-only DLO tracking algorithms. Please see the RA-L paper, the code repository on GitHub, the conference presentation, and the supplementary demonstration video for more information.

Dataset of the standing dead trees at Trelease Woods in 2022. Dataset contains volume, biomass, decay class, and GPS coordinates for each standing dead tree.

Downed woody debris census data for Trelease Woods collected in the summer of 2022. Dataset contains volume, biomass, decay class, and GPS coordinates for each downed woody debris piece.

Provides RNASim-VS2 datasets used in Gillian's Master's thesis.

Data collected at 71 study sites from 2023 to 2024 for Reves, Olivia P. (2025): Using Environmental DNA Metabarcoding to Inform Biodiversity Conservation in Agricultural Landscapes. Master's thesis, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Files include study site information, taxa by site matrices for vertebrates from environmental DNA metabarcoding using multiple mitochondrial DNA primers (COI, 12S), and bird species audibly detected by a phone app at study sites.

This dataset contains best estimates of the particle size distribution and measurements of the radar reflectivity factor and total water content for instances where ground-based radar and airborne microphysical observations were considered collocated with each other.

This dataset provides estimates of agricultural and food commodity flows [kg] between all county pairs within the United States for the years 2007, 2012, and 2017. The database provides 206.3 million data points, since pairwise information is provided between 3134 counties, for 7 commodity categories, and 3 time periods. The commodity categories correspond to the Standardized Classification of Transported Goods and are: - SCTG 1: Iive animals and fish - SCTG 2: cereal grains - SCTG 3: agricultural products (except for animal feed, cereal grains, and forage products) - SCTG 4: animal feed, eggs, honey, and other products of animal origin - SCTG 5: meat, poultry, fish, seafood, and their preparations - SCTG 6: milled grain products and preparations, and bakery products - SCTG 7: other prepared foodstuffs, fats and oils For additional information, please see the related paper by Karakoc et al. (2022) in Environmental Research Letters.

Soil data for ten soil cores collected at Trelease Woods in 2022. Soil samples were analyzed with an elemental analyzer via combustion to obtain total carbon (C) and nitrogen. A subset of these samples were analyzed using the Walkley-Black method to obtain organic C. A calibration curve relating organic C and total C was created using these data.

Compositional characterization of biomass is vital for the biofuel industry. Traditional wet chemistry-based methods for analyzing biomass composition are laborious, time-consuming, and require extensive use of chemical reagents as well as highly skilled personnel. In this study, near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy was used to quickly assess the composition of above-ground vegetative biomass from 113 diverse, photoperiod-sensitive, biomass-type sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) accessions cultivated under field conditions in Central Illinois. Biomass samples were analyzed using NIR spectra collected in the spectral range of 867–2536 nm, with their chemical compositions determined following the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) protocol. Advanced spectral pre-treatment and band selection techniques were utilized to develop calibration models using partial least squares regression (PLSR). The models’ effectiveness was assessed through cross-validation and independent data tests. The predictions for moisture, ash, extractives, glucan, xylan, acid-soluble lignin (ASL), acid-insoluble lignin (AIL), and total lignin were accurate and reliable, demonstrating the capability of NIR spectroscopy to provide rapid and precise characterization of sorghum biomass. The results demonstrated that NIR spectroscopy is an efficient tool for rapidly characterizing sorghum biomass, making it a sustainable option for screening desirable feedstock for biofuel or bioproduct production.

This dataset represents the results of manual cleaning and annotation of the entity mentions contained in the raw dataset (https://doi.org/10.13012/B2IDB-4950847_V1). Each mention has been consolidated and linked to an identifier for a matching concept from the NCBI's taxonomy database.

The dataset shows all poison frogs (superfamily Dendrobatoidea) in private U.S. collections during 1990–2020. For each species and color morph, there is a date of arrival, the way it arrived in U.S. collections, and detailed notes related to its presence in the pet trade.

Related to the raw entity mentions, this dataset represents the effects of the data cleaning process and collates all of the entity mentions which were too ambiguous to successfully link to the NCBI's taxonomy identifier system.

This dataset was developed as part of an online survey study that explores student characteristics that may predict what one finds helpful in replies to requests for help posted to an online college course discussion forum. 223 college students enrolled in an introductory statistics course were surveyed on their sense of belonging to their course community, as well as how helpful they found 20 examples of replies to requests for help posted to a statistics course discussion forum.

A set of species entity mentions derived from an NERC dataset analyzing 900 synthetic biology articles published by the ACS. This data is associated with the Synthetic Biology Knowledge System repository (https://web.synbioks.org/). The data in this dataset are raw mentions from the NERC data.

This is a dataset from a choice experiment survey on family forest landowner preferences for managing invasive species.

Oilcane is an engineered sugarcane with the ability to hyper-accumulate vegetative lipids. It is processed to obtain juice and bagasse as a potential substrate for the production of biofuels and biochemicals. The juice comprises solid particles that are separated as waste mud before the fermentation of the juice. In this study, the oilcane waste mud (OWM) generated from 1000 liters of oilcane juice was quantified and evaluated as a potential resource for recovering biobased waxes. Hexane and ethyl acetate were evaluated as two different solvents for extracting waxes from OWM followed by its purification using acetone. The extracted biobased wax samples were characterized for their chemical and thermal profiles which were then compared with commercial natural waxes. Detailed mass balance shows that 53.6 ± 2.6 kg (dry basis) of solid OWM gets generated upon processing 1000 L (~1068 kg) of oilcane juice. Hexane and ethyl acetate led to a crude wax yield of 25.6 ± 0.2% and 16.6 ± 0.4% (wt/wt, dry basis) respectively from OWM at the end of 8 h. The relative purification of the wax samples was reported in the range of 58%–65% (wt/wt). The purified OWM wax has a melting point of 74.7°C. The waste mud was valorized as a source of biobased waxes with characteristic chemical and thermal profiles comparable to commercial natural waxes (carnauba and beeswax). Considering the decline in the supply of petroleum wax in the future coupled with the switch to “greener” alternative products by consumers, OWM could be a valuable source of natural wax in the industrial sector reducing the dependence on petroleum waxes. Eventually, recovering biobased wax as a co-product from OWM would bring in an additional stream of revenue leading to the development of a zero-waste biorefinery based on bioenergy crops.

The complete data for the publication "RNA helicase MOV10 suppresses fear memory and dendritic arborization and regulates microtubule dynamics in hippocampal neurons," excluding sequencing data deposited in GEO, is provided here.

*Updates for this V3: added a few more records and rearranged the sequence of the tables in order to support our new paper "Evaluation of Indirect and Direct Scoring Methods to Relate Biochemical Soil Quality Indicators to Ecosystem Services" accepted by the Soil Science Society of America Journal. We summarize peer reviewed literature reporting associations between for three soil quality indicators (SQIs) (β-glucosidase (BG), fluorescein diacetate (FDA) hydrolysis, and permanganate oxidizable carbon (POXC)) and crop yield and greenhouse gas emissions. Peer-reviewed articles published between January of 1990 and May 2018 were searched using the Thomas Reuters Web of Science database (Thomas Reuters, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and Google Scholar to identify studies reporting results for: “β-glucosidase”, “permanganate oxidizable carbon”, “active carbon”, “readily oxidizable carbon”, or “fluorescein diacetate hydrolysis”, together with one or more of the following: “crop yield”, “productivity”, “greenhouse gas’, “CO2”, “CH4”, or “N2O”. Meta-data for records include the following descriptor variables and covariates useful for scoring function development: 1) identifying factors for the study site (location, duration of the experiment), 2) soil textural class, pH, and SOC, 3) depth of soil sampling, 4) units used in published works (i.e.: equivalent mass, concentration), 5) SQI abundances and measured ecosystem functions, and 6) summary statistics for correlation between SQIs and functions (yield and greenhouse gas emissions). *Note: Blank values in tables are considered unreported data.

Conjugate photoelectron energy spectra derived from coincident FUV and radio measurements. These are outputs of simulations from the semi-empirical SAMI2-PE (Varney et al. 2012) for the night of January 4, 2020.

Plant bioengineering is a time-consuming and labor-intensive process with no guarantee of achieving desired traits. Here, we present a fast, automated, scalable, high-throughput pipeline for plant bioengineering (FAST-PB) in maize (Zea mays) and Nicotiana benthamiana. FAST-PB enables genome editing and product characterization by integrating automated biofoundry engineering of callus and protoplast cells with single-cell matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS). We first demonstrated that FAST-PB could streamline Golden Gate cloning, with the capacity to construct 96 vectors in parallel. Using FAST-PB in protoplasts, we found that PEG2050 increased transfection efficiency by over 45%. For proof-of-concept, we established a reporter-gene-free method for CRISPR editing and phenotyping via mutation of high chlorophyll fluorescence 136. We show that diverse lipids were enhanced up to 6-fold using CRISPR activation of lipid controlling genes. In callus cells, an automated transformation platform was employed to regenerate plants with enhanced lipid traits through introducing multigene cassettes. Lastly, FAST-PB enabled high-throughput single-cell lipid profiling by integrating MALDI-MS with the biofoundry, protoplast, and callus cells, differentiating engineered and unengineered cells using single-cell lipidomics. These innovations massively increase the throughput of synthetic biology, genome editing, and metabolic engineering and change what is possible using single-cell metabolomics in plants.

The nonconventional yeast Issatchenkia orientalis has emerged as a potential platform microorganism for production of organic acids due to its ability to grow robustly under highly acidic conditions. However, lack of efficient genetic tools remains a major bottleneck in metabolic engineering of this organism. Here we report that the autonomously replicating sequence (ARS) from Saccharomyces cerevisiae (ScARS) was functional for plasmid replication in I. orientalis, and the resulting episomal plasmid enabled efficient genome editing by the CRISPR/Cas9 system. The optimized CRISPR/Cas9-based system employed a fusion RPR1′-tRNA promoter for single guide RNA (sgRNA) expression and could attain greater than 97% gene disruption efficiency for various gene targets. Additionally, we demonstrated multiplexed gene deletion with disruption efficiencies of 90% and 47% for double gene and triple gene knockouts, respectively. This genome editing tool can be used for rapid strain development and metabolic engineering of this organism for production of biofuels and chemicals.

This dataset provides estimates of total Irrigation Water Use (IWU) by crop, county, water source, and year for the Continental United States. Total irrigation from Surface Water Withdrawals (SWW), total Groundwater Withdrawals (GWW), and nonrenewable Groundwater Depletion (GWD) is provided for 20 crops and crop groups from 2008 to 2020 at the county spatial resolution. In total, there are nearly 2.5 million data points in this dataset (3,142 counties; 13 years; 3 water sources; and 20 crops). This dataset supports the paper by Ruess et al (2024) "Total irrigation by crop in the Continental United States from 2008 to 2020", Scientific Data, doi: 10.1038/s41597-024-03244-w When using, please cite as: Ruess, P.J., Konar, M., Wanders, N., and Bierkens, M.F.P. (2024) Total irrigation by crop in the Continental United States from 2008 to 2020, Scientific Data, doi: 10.1038/s41597-024-03244-w

Data associated with the manuscript "Do rusty crayfish invasions affect water clarity in north temperate lakes?" by Daniel K. Szydlowski, Melissa K. Daniels, and Eric R. lARSON