Mating type tests in Neurospora crassa are an important way to characterize strains. Since most of the knock-out mutants developed as part of the functional genomics program (Colot et al., 2006) have little obvious phenotype we have undertaken to test the mating type of all of the knock-strains that are sent to the FGSC. Our original mating type test protocol is similar to that described by Smi...

The mechanisms underlying perceptual learning–how our brain changes as we gain competence in a perceptual task– remain a heavily debated topic. Since the early 2000’s, a number of authors have proposed competing theories on the loci of change for visual perceptual learning, ranging from V1, V4, to areas beyond the visual cortex associated with decision making processes (Dosher and Lu, 1998; Sch...

The Amazon.com technology platform provides a set of highly advanced business and infrastructure services implemented using ultra-scalable distributed systems technologies. Within this environment we can identify a number of specific data access patterns, each with their own availability, consistency, performance and operational requirements in order to serve a collection of highly diverse busi...