As the time grew nearer for Barack Obama's first news conference as president-elect yesterday, aides announced that the start would be delayed by 10 to 15 minutes. Then they announced a five-minute delay. Then another. Finally, the next president finally

The use of synthetic biology to design artificial gene circuits is an important approach for understanding the principles underlying the complicated dynamic behaviours of biomolecular networks, such as genetic switching and biological rhythms. The synthetic approach is also useful in

Functions of a protein are mainly determined by its structure. Surface cavities, also called pockets or clefts, are ordinarily regarded as potentially active sites where the protein carries out the functions. Clustering these pockets is a challenging task in structural

Computational identification of missing enzymes is important in metabolic network reconstruction. For a metabolic reaction, given a set of candidate enzymes identified by biological evidences, a powerful predictive model is necessary to predict the actual enzyme(s) catalysing the reaction. In

The double digestion problem for DNA restriction mapping has been proved to be NP-complete and intractable if the numbers of the DNA fragments become large. Several approaches to the problem have been tested and proved to be effective only for

Annotating proteins with biological functions is one of the main goals in post genomic era. Various high-throughout technologies, e.g., yeast two-hybrid systems and microarray, have provided an alternative way to protein function prediction. Despite the success obtained by high-throughout data,

The main aim of this paper is to propose and develop a unidimensional nonnegative scaling model to construct Linkage Disequilibrium (LD) maps. The proposed constrained scaling model can be efficiently solved by transforming it to an unconstrained model. The method

As a general lack of quantitative measurement data for pathway modelling and parameter identification process, time-series experimental design is particularly important in current systems biology research. This paper mainly investigates state measurement/observer selection problem when parametric uncertainties are considered. Based

Post Oak Magnet School, get ready for your close-up.

Tokyo ETJ (English Teachers in Japan). November 30 (Sun), 10:00-18:00 in Tokyo Japan. Several speakers, to be confirmed.

Tokyo ETJ (English Teachers in Japan). November 29 (Sat), 10:00-18:00 in Tokyo Japan. Several speakers (Call for papers due Sept. 29).

Shizuoka JALT (Japan Association for Language Teaching). November 23 (Sun), 13:00-17:00 in Shizuoka Japan. John Gunning.

Chiba ETJ (English Teachers in Japan). November 23 (Sun), 13:30-16:30 in Chiba Japan. Discussion and Idea Sharing.

The Santa Clara men's soccer team (4-8-6, 2-4-4 WCC) wrapped up the home-half of the 2008 schedule this evening with a 2-2 double overtime draw versus conference rival Saint Mary's College (4-8-4, 3-3-3 WCC). The Broncos' celebrated Senior Day prior

In Santa Clara's lone exhibition of the year, the Bronco basketball team defeated CSU Monterey Bay 93-65 on Fri., Nov. 7 at the Leavey Center. The Broncos open their season Fri., Nov. 14 vs. CSU East Bay at the Leavey

The skeleton of a 12,000 year-old Natufian woman has been discovered in northern Israel by archaeologists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The burial is described as being accompanied by...

A house in St.Louis (Missouri, USA) is for sale for $400,000. However, it's what lies beneath the home that excites lovers of St. Louis history, or, in this case, prehistory....

A simple tool carved from a deer's leg bone that college students unearthed in 2003 is more than 10,000 years old, making it the oldest non-stone human artifact ever found...

Traces of a 3,000-year-old later Bronze Age round house have been found on the site of the new Bognor Regis Community College (West Sussex, England). A large extraction pit, containing...

A community in Co Galway (Ireland) is outraged that a 2,000-year-old ritual stone is to be moved and taken to a museum. Minister for the Environment John Gormley has been...