Nature conservation requires classification of vegetation types for site assessment and assignment. Species-rich floodplain meadows are a declining habitat in Britain Europe yet their has been based on just few samples fails to describe community response environmental change adequately. European classification, opposite, from the wide geographical range with no data/analysis supporting choices...

Protein tertiary structures are known to have significant correlations with their biological functions. To understand the information of the protein structures, Structural Classification of Protein (SCOP) Database, which is manually constructed by human experts, classifies similar protein folds in the same domain hierarchy. Even though this approach is believed to be more reliable than applying...

Sir Macfarlane Burnet [1], who is far famed for his pioneer work on cancer surveillance, recommended clearly in his Brailsford Robertson Memorial Lecture that scientists should acquaint themselves with historical antecedents. Therefore, this paper documents such antecedents in respect of the drug treatment modalities used by cancer quacks. Quacks were presented in the 1725 History of Physic by ...

Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) are probably the most powerful tool for the detection of protein sequence homology [4]. Maximization of their capabilities and biological usefulness requires the correct interpretation of their scores, and sufficient coverage of the sequence variations that exist in different protein families. Using information available from the SCOP database we investigated optimal...

The ASTRAL compendium provides several databases and tools to aid in the analysis of protein structures, particularly through the use of their sequences. It is partially derived from the SCOP database of protein domains, and it includes sequences for each domain as well as other resources useful for studying these sequences and domain structures. Several major improvements have been made to the...

common burnet (poterium sanguisorba) is a perennial herb from rose family (rosaceae) which is used to construct pastures. the studied plant can resist against freezing, cool and drought. the present study was conducted to study the seed germination parameters of common burnet in different thermal treatments as completely randomized design in 4 replications in 2013. treatments involved the effec...

MOTIVATION Protein families can be defined based on structure or sequence similarity. We wanted to compare two protein family databases, one based on structural and one on sequence similarity, to investigate to what extent they overlap, the similarity in definition of corresponding families, and to create a list of large protein families with unknown structure as a resource for structural genom...

The Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP) database provides a detailed and comprehensive description of the relationships of known protein structures. The classification is on hierarchical levels: the first two levels, family and superfamily, describe near and distant evolutionary relationships; the third, fold, describes geometrical relationships. The distinction between evolutionary re...