The objective of the present study was to conduct DNA based genotyping analysis for hybrid identification in maize (Zea mays L.) using DNA fingerprinting technology. To achieve this random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis was employed. A total of 40 random tenmer primers were surveyed. Of these, OPR-03, OPR-11 and OPT-06 were polymorphic which not only verified the purity among three l...

Recently, human activity recognition (HAR) techniques have made remarkable developments in the field of machine learning. In this paper, we classify gestures using data collected from a curved piezoelectric sensor, including elbow movement, wrist turning, bending, coughing, and neck bending. The classification process relies on sensor. Machine learning algorithms enabled with K-mer are develope...

Mer is a receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) with oncogenic properties that is often overexpressed or activated in various malignancies. Using both immunohistochemistry and microarray analyses, we demonstrated that Mer was overexpressed in both tumoral and stromal compartments of about 70% of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) samples relative to surrounding normal lung tissue. This was validated in...

The polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based mRNA differential display (3) has been widely used for identifying differentially expressed mRNA in a variety of biological systems (4). mRNA differential display consists of two basic steps: (i) reverse transcription (RT) using a set of 3′-anchored primers, T12MN (M = G, A or C; N = G, A, T or C) and (ii) PCR amplification of cDNA fragments using an ar...

The finishing phase of genome sequencing projects is expensive, in part, because of the cost of de novo synthesis of custom primers and the management burden associated with obtaining and using them for primer walking. One approach to reduce these high costs is the use of a presynthesized library of short oligonucleotides (8-10 bases) rather than long primers. The use of such a library eliminat...

We address the problem of finding a minimum-size set of k-mers that hits L-long sequences. The problem arises in the design of compact hash functions and other data structures for efficient handling of large sequencing datasets. We prove that the problem of hitting a given set of L-long sequences is NP-hard and give a heuristic solution that finds a compact universal k-mer set that hits any set...

DNA barcodes are short, unique ssDNA primers that "mark" individual biomolecules. To gain better understanding of biophysical parameters constraining primer-dimer formation between primers that incorporate barcode sequences, we have developed a capillary electrophoresis method that utilizes drag-tag-DNA conjugates to quantify dimerization risk between primer-barcode pairs. Results obtained with...

Membrane-bound receptors generate soluble ligand-binding domains either by proteolytic cleavage of the extracellular domain or alternative mRNA splicing yielding a secreted protein. Mertk (Mer) is in a receptor tyrosine kinase family with Axl and Tyro-3, and all 3 receptors share the Gas6 ligand. Mer regulates macrophage activation, promotes apoptotic cell engulfment, and supports platelet aggr...

This article investigates the Multiple Equilibria Regulation (MER) model, i.e., an agent-based simulation model, to represent opinion dynamics in social networks. It relies on a small set of microprerequisites (intra-individual balance and confidence bound), leading to emergence of (non)stationary macro-outcomes. These outcomes may refer to consensus, polarization or fragmentation of opinions a...