According to history books, gun-wielding European slave traders kidnapped one in five Africans and transported them across the oceans to the Americas.

The leaders of the National Union of Teachers in England and Wales say there will be no strike action this winter, following a close ballot.

On Monday, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom spoke outside Old Union at a rally for Barack Obama and in opposition to state Proposition 4, the Abortion Waiting Period and Parental Notification Initiative, and Proposition 8, which would eliminate the right

Drop something in front of a 2-year-old, and she's likely to pick it up for you. Can't get into a cabinet because your hands are full? Count on the watchful toddler to wander over and open the door. And that

More than 100 staff, faculty and students turned out Friday for the 1.5-mile Halloween Monster Mash Walk at Cobb Track. The event was part of the Pac-10 Fitness Challenge.

Students, staff and faculty are being urged to update their contact information prior to the next test of the university's emergency-notification system, AlertSU, on Nov. 14.

Stanford has issued a revised policy outlining how the university will respond to "acts of intolerance," defined as acts that adversely and unfairly target a person or group on the basis of one or more actual or perceived characteristics: gender

Stanford audiences will have a chance to experience Olivier Messaien's ethereal and otherworldly 'Quatuor pour la fin du temps' ('Quartet for the End of Time') at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, in Memorial Church—the launch of Lively Arts' three-month celebration

Since adopting a policy in 2005 that provides 12 weeks of support for pregnant graduate students, Chemistry Department administrators have been fielding a set of relatively new questions from expectant mothers: "Is this like maternity leave?" and "Will I be

Targeted interventions using RNA interference in combination with the measurement of secondary effects with DNA microarrays can be used to computationally reverse engineer features of upstream non-transcriptional signaling cascades based on the nested structure of effects.

Thermodynamic model has been proposed as a realistic model of gene transcriptional regulation in bacteria, in which transcription probability calculation is based on physical interpretation of biological knowledge. We extend the published results in this area, and derive a relatively

We describe here an exploratory tool, called FunNet, which implements an original systems biology approach, aiming to improve the biological relevance of the modular interaction patterns identified in transcriptional co-expression networks. A suitable analytical model, involving two abstraction layers, has

TESE is a web server for the generation of test sets of protein sequences and structures fulfilling a number of different criteria. At least three different use cases can be envisaged: (i) benchmarking of novel methods; (ii) test sets tailored

Regulatory RNAs often unfold their action via RNA-RNA interaction. Transcriptional gene silencing by means of siRNAs and miRNA as well as snoRNA directed RNA editing rely on this mechanism. Additionally ncRNA regulation in bacteria is mainly based upon RNA duplex

MS-BID (MS Biomarker Discovery Platform) is an integrative computational pipeline for biomarker discovery using LC-MS-based comparative proteomic analysis. This platform consists of several computational tools for: (i) detecting peptides in the collected patterns; (ii) matching detected peptides across a number

The Functional Genomics Experiment Object Model (FuGE) supports modelling of experimental processes either directly or through extensions that specialize FuGE for use in specific contexts. FuGE applications commonly include components that capture, store and search experiment descriptions, where the requirements

GenMiner is an implementation of association rule discovery dedicated to the analysis of genomic data. It allows the analysis of datasets integrating multiple sources of biological data represented as both discrete values, such as gene annotations, and continuous values, such

A protein-protein docking decoy set is built for the D OCKGROUND unbound benchmark set. The GRAMM-X docking scan was used to generate 100 non-native and at least one near-native match per complex for 61 complexes. The set is a publicly

MonkeySNP is a web-based resource created by the Genetic Resource and Informatics Program at the Oregon National Primate Research Center to facilitate access to non-human primate (NHP) single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) data. MonkeySNP is a mirror of the NCBI dbSNP

GOSLING is a web-based protein function annotator that uses a decision tree-derived rule set to quickly predict Gene Ontology terms for a protein. A score is assigned to each term prediction that is indicative of the accuracy of the prediction.