The paper describes a novel approach for filtering duplicate reads from 454 pyrosequencing data. This problem is motivated by the need of reduce sequencing errors and artifically duplicated reads in some applications such as de-novo whole genome sequencing or metagenomics. Existing solutions are often based on nucleotide sequences, while raw flowgram values, which contain additional information...

This study examined the relationship between sensorimotor and motivational functions of the corpus striatum. In rats, excitotoxic lesions of the corpus striatum (neostriatum and globus pallidus) caused by kainic or quisqualic acid can produce both aversive aphagia and a "choreic" sensorimotor syndrome: an exaggerated treading of the forepaws that is triggered by oral sensory stimulation. Experi...

recent publication, Akopyan et al. (2011) provide evidence challenging this canonical “one-step” model for the transport of effector proteins, proposing that in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis at least, a “two-step” model of T3SS-dependent protein translocation may be possible. In this “two-step” process, bacterial effectors are first secreted to the surface of the bacterium and then translocated a...

In this paper, a new partition of unity ± the synchronized reproducing kernel (SRK) interpolant ± is derived. It is a class of meshless shape functions that exhibit synchronized convergence phenomenon: the convergence rate of the interpolation error of the higher order derivatives of the shape function can be tuned to be that of the shape function itself. This newly designed synchronized reprod...

To meet the demand for high speed transmission of image, efficient image storage, remote treatment an efficient image compression technique is essential. Wavelet theory has great potential in medical image compression. Most of the commercial medical image viewers do not provide scalability in image compression. This paper discusses a medical application that contains a viewer for digital imagin...

to biologists as one of the leaders in the attempt to develop biology as an autonomous science with its own laws. This attempt gives to the organic sciences perspectives of thought which seem often to have been lost by the one-sided influence of the inorganic sciences which developed earlier. The necessity for a reorientation was clearly stated and analysed in the theory of stratification of re...