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Routine husbandry procedures, such as castration and tail docking, are known to induce pain and distress in lambs (Grant, 2004; Kent et al., 2001). This raises important welfare concerns and has attracted debate on the acceptability of such practices. The most common method of castration and tail docking involves the application of a rubber ring to the scrotum or tail, usually without anesthesi...

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Tandem mass spectrometry is a widely used method for protein and peptide sequences identification. Since the mass spectra contain up to 80% of noise and many other inaccuracies, there still exists a need for more accurate algorithms for mass spectra interpretation. The sizes of protein databases grow rapidly and the methods for indexing these databases in order to interpret mass spectra become ...

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