The Human Genome Project has generated extensive map and sequence data for a large number of Bacterial Artificial Chromosome (BAC) clones. In order to maximize the efficient use of the data and to minimize the redundant work for the research community, The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) comprehensive BAC resource (cBACr) (http://www.tigr.org/tdb/BacResource/BAC_resourc e_intro. html) was...

Source/description: Porcine chromosome 8 is homologous to human chromosome 4, but a significant number of rearrangements in gene order exist when compared with human. Genes expected to linkage map specifically in quantitative trait loci (QTL) regions for uterine capacity and ovulation rate were chosen by their position on human chromosome 4 (UCSC version hg16 based on NCBI Build 34; Golden Path...

Two confounding factors were selected and analyzed in blood pressure estimation using pulse arrival time (PAT) for each individual. The heart rate was used as the confounding factor for the cardiac cycle, and the duration from the maximum derivative point to the dicrotic peak (TDB) in the photoplethysmogram was used as another confounding factor representing arterial stiffness. By considering t...

In this paper, we propose a new approach for fast processing of SPARQL queries on large RDF datasets containing RDF quadruples (or quads). Our approach called RIQ employs a decrease-and-conquer strategy: Rather than indexing the entire RDF dataset, RIQ identifies groups of similar RDF graphs and indexes each group separately. During query processing, RIQ uses a novel filtering index to first id...

Rice is not only a major food staple for the world's population but it also is a model species for a major group of flowering plants, the monocotyledonous plants. Draft genomic sequence of two subspecies of rice, Oryza sativa spp. japonica and indica ssp. are publicly available. To provide the community with a resource to data-mine the rice genome, we have constructed an annotation resource for...

A determinação de elementos terras raras (REE) em catalisadores gastos provenientes da indústria de petróleo é proposta. Foram testados três procedimentos de tratamento de amostra, um sem adição de HF e outros dois usando diferentes quantidades de HF e ácido bórico, além de uma etapa de evaporação assistida por radiação micro-ondas para dissolução dos fluoretos de REE. O meio contendo 1,0 mL de...

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) changed our everyday business drastically. Business routines have been transformed to online activities. New theories and models were developed for the brand new online environment. For online negotiations, however, the research on new mechanisms is not enough, especially for bilateral distributive negotiations. A reserve price reporting mechanis...

We are witnessing a remarkable change in the scale of molecular microbiological research and we are entering an era of ‘big science’. In the past decade we have moved from a time when entire research papers were based on the sequencing of a single gene or operon to a single paper describing the sequence of a whole genome. The completion of microbial genomes is continuing apace, with 37 genome s...

Expressed sequence tags (ESTs) have provided a first glimpse of the collection of transcribed sequences in a variety of organisms. However, a careful analysis of this sequence data can provide significant additional functional, structural and evolutionary information. Our analysis of the public EST sequences, available through the TIGR Gene Indices (TGI; http://www.tigr.org/tdb/tdb.html ), is a...

This paper reviews existing systems and describes a design of RDF database system that uses NoSQL database to store the data which aims to enhance performance of the Semantic Web applications. RDF data is a standard of data in the form of Subject-Predicate-Object called Triples and stored in database called Triple Store. Typically RDF database system uses SPARQL query language to query the RDF ...