Servius, Cato the Elder and Virgil

CATO: The Clone Alignment Tool

High-throughput cloning efforts produce large numbers of sequences that need to be aligned, edited, compared with reference sequences, and organized as files and selected clones. Different pieces of software are typically required to perform each of these tasks. We have designed a single piece of software, CATO, the Clone Alignment Tool, that allows a user to align, evaluate, edit, and select c...

Taxation Cato Encyclopedia.PDF

Above the entrance to the headquarters of the Internal Revenue Service on Constitution Avenue is chiseled the quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes: “Taxation is the price we pay for civilization.” It is easy enough to see why state officials would want to put that quotation on display, for it counsels people to be pleased with the taxes they pay. It’s not so easy, though, to determine the accur...

Livy, Virgil, and the Traditional Values of Rome

Virgil database for rich links (1999 update)

With so many databases available for research in the Human Genome Project, it is crucial to efficiently relate information from different resources. For that purpose, we maintain Virgil, a database of rich links for data browsing, data analysis and database interconnection. Virgil current version contains more than 40 000 rich links from five major databases: SWISS-PROT, GenBank, PDB, GDB and O...

CATO - A Lightweight Ontology Alignment Tool

Ontologies are becoming increasingly common in the World Wide Web as the building block for a future Semantic Web. In this Web, ontologies will be responsible for making the semantics of pages and applications explicit, thus allowing electronic agents to process and integrate resources automatically. With the widespread, distributed use of ontologies, different parties will inevitably develop o...