BACKGROUND Event extraction following the GENIA Event corpus and BioNLP shared task models has been a considerable focus of recent work in biomedical information extraction. This work includes efforts applying event extraction methods to the entire PubMed literature database, far beyond the narrow subdomains of biomedicine for which annotated resources for extraction method development are avai...

Although several site-specific nucleases (SSNs), such as zinc-finger nucleases (ZFNs), transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs), and the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)/Cas, have emerged as powerful tools for targeted gene editing in many organisms, to date, gene targeting (GT) in plants remains a formidable challenge. In the present study, we att...

The Informedia team participated in the tasks of Rushes summarization, high-level feature extraction and event detection in surveillance video. For the rushes summarization, our basic idea was to use subsampled video at the appropriate rate, showing almost the whole video faster, and then modify the result to remove garbage frames. Sinply subsampling the frames proved to be the best method for ...

In this paper we propose a stacked generalization (or stacking) model for event extraction in bio-medical text. Event extraction deals with the process of extracting detailed biological phenomenon, which is more challenging compared to the traditional binary relation extraction such as protein-protein interaction. The overall process consists of mainly three steps: event trigger detection, argu...

the aim of this study was to analyze and compare the viewpoints shared by university professors and the managers holding sports events of federations on the competencies of sports event managers. the study was a descriptive survey conducted as a field research. the statistical population included all university professors with more than three years of experience of teaching courses related to m...

The publicly available data feeds are increasing exponentially providing a massive source of intelligence, ironically this plethora of information is what makes succinct details hidden during the analysis of an event of interest. Traditional search engines help narrow down the scope of analysis to a specific event but it is not an easy task for an analyst to study massive amount of relevant doc...

We have solved the structures of the homoduplex d(Gm5CGCGCG)2, and the heteroduplexes d(GCGCGCG)/d(TCGCGCG) and d(GCGCGCG)/d(CCGCGCG). The structures form six base-pairs of identical Z-DNA duplexes with single nucleotides overhanging at the 5'-ends. The overhanging nucleotide from one strand remains stacked and sandwiched between the blunt-ends of two adjacent Z-DNA duplexes, while the overhang...

Using the single-strand conformational polymorphism technique, we have screened 66 malignant ovarian tumors for p53 mutation in exons 5 to 8. Thirty-four of the tumors demonstrated a single-strand conformational polymorphism band shift in this region of the gene, including 6 in exon 5, 7 in exon 6, 12 in exon 7, and 10 in exon 8 (one of the tumors showed a shift for exons 7 and 8). All of the s...

Programmed -1 ribosomal frameshifting is necessary for translation of the polymerase genes of many viruses. In addition to the consensus elements in the mRNA around the frameshift site, we found previously that frameshifting on Barley yellow dwarf virus RNA requires viral sequence located four kilobases downstream. By using dual luciferase reporter constructs, we now show that a predicted loop ...