Motivation: The enormous amount of short reads generated by the new DNA sequencing technologies call for the development of fast and accurate read alignment programs. A first generation of hash table-based methods has been developed, including MAQ, which is accurate,

Motivation: The use of prior knowledge to improve gene regulatory network modelling has often been proposed. In this article we present the first research on the massive incorporation of prior knowledge from literature for Bayesian network learning of gene networks.

Motivation: Generation of structural models and recognition of homologous relationships for unannotated protein sequences are fundamental problems in bioinformatics. Improving the sensitivity and selectivity of methods designed for these two tasks therefore has downstream benefits for many other bioinformatics applications.

Motivation: There has been an increasing interest in expressing a survival phenotype (e.g. time to cancer recurrence or death) or its distribution in terms of a subset of the expression data of a subset of genes. Due to high dimensionality

Motivation: The relationship between nucleosome positioning and gene regulation is fundamental yet complex. Previous studies on genomic nucleosome positions have revealed a correlation between nucleosome occupancy on promoters and gene expression levels. Many of these studies focused on individual nucleosomes,

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How greenery helps us think.

The "No Child Left Inside" movement.

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International news broadcaster CNN is giving "Potter" fans a chance to record and upload a video to ask cast and crew members of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" a question.

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Australian theatre "Village Cinemas" is offering one lucky Australian "Potter" fan the oportunity to win an appearance in one of the final Harry Potter films.

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A Kenyan has been named winner of the 2009 Young Women Conservation Biologists Award. Ms Shivani Bhalla was unanimously selected by Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) Africa Section Young Women Conservation Biologists Awards Panel.

a selection of noteworthy new additions to our fiction collection, is now available.