The Road West, Revised Editions

Revised road map to the phylum Firmicutes

Starting with the Second Edition of Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, the arrangement of content follows a phylogenetic framework or “road map” based largely on analyses of the nucleotide sequences of the ribosomal small-subunit RNA rather than on phenotypic data (Garrity et al., 2005). Implicit in the use of the road map are the convictions that prokaryotes have a phylogeny and that ...

Revised Eocene-Oligocene kinematics for the West Antarctic rift system

[1] Past plate motion between East and West Antarctica along the West Antarctic rift system had important regional and global implications. Although extensively studied, the kinematics of the rift during Eocene-Oligocene time still remains elusive. Based on a recent detailed aeromagnetic survey from the Adare and Northern Basins, located in the northwestern Ross Sea, we present the first well-c...

Digital Editions beyond XML - Graph-based Digital Editions

XML has been the de facto standard for digital editions for years, but its serious limitations include an inability to represent overlapping markup and the encoding of multiple annotation hierarchies. With emerging graph database technologies we have the opportunity to develop new approaches. In this paper the advantages and modelling principles of graph-based digital editions will be discussed.

Recent Editions--Summer 2006

Beyond the Text: Digital Editions and Performance