This special issue of Bioinformatics serves as the proceedings of the 24th annual conference Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), which took place in Orlando, Florida, July 8–12, 2016 (http://www.iscb.org/ismb2016). ISMB 2016, the official conference of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB, http://www.iscb.org/), was accompanied by 11 Special Interest Group mee...

This paper investigates whether the politicization of a new generation trade agreements has led to transformation EU policy. It provides qualitative study multilevel contention based on sources from civil society and parliamentary archives in Belgium, Germany, European Union concerning EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) three subsequent concluded by with Japan, Vietnam, Sin...

OBJECTIVE The authors sought to use biomechanical measures, including motion and pressure, to compare four office chairs. BACKGROUND The fit of a person to a chair is related to the geometric and kinematic compatibility between the two. This geometric compatibility influences the motions that are allowed or prohibited and the support pressures at the body-chair interface. Thus, during evaluat...

One key message from our report, and from the Institute's sister report on Government Transitions, is that preparation and planning by all these groups is key. We offer this brief guide to what the implications of a hung parliament would be. Where relevant, references are made to the draft Chapter 6 of the new Cabinet Manual that is being published by the Cabinet Office. This was also the subje...

Exploitation and use of disruptive technologies, such as the Internet Things, recommender systems, artificial intelligence, with an ambidextrous balance, are a challenge, nowadays. Users stakeholders, could be part new organisational model that affects business procedures processes. Additionally, inclusive participatory models is essential for effective adoption these technologies. Such aim to ...