Protein picker

Fragger: a protein fragment picker for structural queries

Protein modeling and design activities often require querying the Protein Data Bank (PDB) with a structural fragment, possibly containing gaps. For some applications, it is preferable to work on a specific subset of the PDB or with unpublished structures. These requirements, along with specific user needs, motivated the creation of a new software to manage and query 3D protein fragments. Fragge...

The Picker-Chooser diameter game

Positional Games are played under several rules on the same hypergraph. We consider some intriguing connection among the outcome of the Maker-Breaker and the Picker-Chooser versions. The later ones were introduced by Beck in [5] and proved to be important in understanding Positional Games in general. Beck had the profound conjecture that playing on the same hypergraph, Picker has better chances...

On Chooser-Picker positional games

Two new versions of the so-called Maker-Breaker Positional Games are defined by József Beck. In these variants Picker takes unselected pair of elements and Chooser keeps one of these elements and gives back the other to Picker. In the Picker-Chooser version Picker is Maker and Chooser is Breaker, while the roles are swapped in the Chooser-Picker version. It seems that both the Picker-Chooser an...

Diffusion of the Mechanical Cotton Picker

Fungal infections in corn picker hand injury.

INTRODUCTION Hand injuries caused by corn pickers are relatively rare but in most cases extensive, with massive tissue destruction. Severe wounds sustained during agricultural work are contaminated, with high incidence of infection. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to determine the frequency and type of fungal infection in corn picker injuries and their impact on the course and outcome of t...