MOTIVATION Comparative genomics heavily relies on alignments of large and often complex DNA sequences. From an engineering perspective, the problem here is to provide maximum sensitivity (to find all there is to find), specificity (to only find real homology) and speed (to accommodate the billions of base pairs of vertebrate genomes). RESULTS Satsuma addresses all three issues through novel s...

The discovery of the sunken remains battleship USS Nevada (BB-36) by Ocean Infinity and SEARCH Inc. in 2020 provided means for documentation, site mapping characterization a deep-water shipwreck with an iconic history that spanned half-century profound change world response to two wars, shifting geopolitics technological development concluded advent atomic age. mission took place during global ...

Francis Bacon: Invisible Rooms (Tate Liverpool 18 May – 18 September 2016) is the first dedicated exhibition to survey an underexplored yet significant element of Bacon’s work, an artist internationally regarded as Britain’s greatest painter of the last century and the biggest one after Turner. This exhibition helps in the re-assessment of his works in the light of the new research that has eme...

San Diego, the site of the 2013 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) meeting, sits like a vision of the future at the far tip of the United States, just up the road from Mexico and smack next to the Pacific Ocean. Like its siblings in California, Los Angeles and San Francisco, San Diego is one of the geographic last stops of the American dream. For centuries, people have trekked across the co...