Summary Counting all k -mers in a given dataset is a standard procedure in many bioinformatics applications. We introduce KMC3, a significant improvement of the former KMC2 algorithm together with KMC tools for manipulating k -mer databases. Usefulness of the tools is shown on a few real problems. Availability and implementation Program is freely available at http://sun.aei.polsl.pl/REFRESH/k...

Summary: sORF finder is a program package for identifying small open reading frames (sORFs) with high coding potential. This application allows identification of coding sORFs according to the nucleotide composition bias among coding sequences and the potential functional constraint at the amino acid level through evaluation of synonymous and nonsynonymous substitution rates. Availability: Onlin...

A growing body of evidence suggests that supplementary feeding programs have a positive effect on reducing malnutrition prevalence in developing countries. In India, despite substantial funding of its early childhood development program, which has a large supplementary feeding component, levels of child malnutrition have fallen only slightly. Using propensity score matching to identify impacts ...

SUMMARY sORF finder is a program package for identifying small open reading frames (sORFs) with high-coding potential. This application allows the identification of coding sORFs according to the nucleotide composition bias among coding sequences and the potential functional constraint at the amino acid level through evaluation of synonymous and non-synonymous substitution rates. AVAILABILITY ...

This chapter discusses food intakes, principally of dietary energy, in infants fed in various ways: exclusively from the breast, with breast milk plus supplementary or complementary foods, and by artificial feeding. Changing attitudes toward infant feeding are emphasized, and it is shown that as in many other age groups in industrialized countries, the amounts of food consumed during infancy an...

A cross-sectional survey, FINDIET 2007, was carried out in Finland. Food intake data was collected by a 48 h recall interview. Additional food intake data was collected by a repeated 3 d food diary, a barcode-based product diary, a food frequency questionnaire and by a supplementary questionnaire on rarely eaten foods. The purpose of the present paper is to describe the methodology of the natio...

Several aid groups have proposed strategies for allocating ready-to-use (therapeutic and supplementary) foods to children in developing countries. Analysis is needed to investigate whether there are better alternatives. We use a longitudinal dataset of 5,657 children from Bwamanda to construct a bivariate time-series model that tracks each child's height-for-age z score (HAZ) and weight-for-hei...