Suux trees nd several applications in computer science and telecommunications, most notably in algorithms on strings, data compressions and codes. Despite this, very little is known about their typical behaviors. In a probabilistic framework, we consider a family of suux trees { further called b-suux trees { built from the rst n suuxes of a random word. In this family a noncompact suux tree (i....

Metabolite identification plays a crucial role in the interpretation of metabolomics research results. Due to its sensitivity and widespread implementation, a favourite analytical method used in metabolomics is electrospray mass spectrometry. In this paper, we demonstrate our results in attempting to incorporate the potentials of multistage mass spectrometry into the metabolite identification r...

In metabolomics and other fields dealing with small compounds, mass spectrometry is applied as a sensitive high-throughput technique. Recently, fragmentation trees have been proposed to automatically analyze the fragmentation mass spectra recorded by such instruments. Computationally, this leads to the problem of finding a maximum weight subtree in an edge-weighted and vertex-colored graph, suc...

SUN, F.-J. AND S. R. DOWNIE (Department of Plant Biology, 265 Morrill Hall, 505 South Goodwin Avenue, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801 USA). Phylogenetic analyses of morphological and molecular data reveal major clades within the perennial, endemic western North American Apiaceae subfamily Apioideae. J. Torrey Bot. Soc. 137: 133–156, 2010.—The taxonomy and phylogeny ...

The genus Oryza (rice) contains two cultivated and ~20 wild species with various genotypes and ecotypes. Here we attempt to elucidate the evolutionary history of rice from a genomic perspective. Oryza sativa is the Asia-originated cultivar, which is thought to be domesticated from its wild progenitor, O. rufipogon. O. sativa can be classified into diverse varietal groups including japonica and ...

As a result of their plastic body plan, the relationships of the annelid worms and even the taxonomic makeup of the phylum have long been contentious. Morphological cladistic analyses have typically recovered a monophyletic Polychaeta, with the simple-bodied forms assigned to an early-diverging clade or grade. This is in stark contrast to molecular trees, in which polychaetes are paraphyletic a...

INTRODUCTION The prediction of plasma protein binding (ppb) is of paramount importance in the pharmacokinetics characterization of drugs, as it causes significant changes in volume of distribution, clearance and drug half life. This study utilized Quantitative Structure - Activity Relationships (QSAR) for the prediction of plasma protein binding. METHODS Protein binding values for 794 compoun...

Flowering time is an important horticultural trait in almond since it is essential to avoid the late frosts that affect production in early flowering cultivars. Evaluation of this complex trait is a long process because of the prolonged juvenile period of trees and the influence of environmental conditions affecting gene expression year by year. In this research flowering time was studied in an...