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BLAST

... matching. The BLAST algorithm and a computer program that implements it were developed by Stephen ... alternative to BLAST is the Smith Waterman. program The BLAST program can either be downloaded and run as a ...

Digital organism

... organism is a self-replicating computer program that mutates and evolves . Digital ... of a program. The first to solve the issue of program brittleness was Tom Ray with his Tierra ... each other. In Avida, on the other hand, each program lives in its own address space. Through this ...

Artificial life

... Von Neumann ). Notably the position of Tom Ray who declared that his program Tierra was not simulating life in a computer, but was synthesizing it. ... using only a Apple II desktop computer. He entered Burks' graduate program at the Logic of Computers Group in 1982, at the age of 33, and helped to ...

Bioinformatics

... as EMBOSS , Bioconductor , BioPerl , BioPython , BioRuby , and BioJava which develop and distribute shared programming tools and objects (as program modules) that make bioinformatics easier. See also biologically-inspired computing morphometrics metabolic network Important ...

Biotechnology

... allergic to animal insulins available before) 1992 FDA approves of the first GM food from Calgene : "Flavr Savr" tomato 1999 Biotechnology program started at North Montgomery County Technical Career Center in Pennsylavania. 2000 Completion of the Human Genome Project Biotechnology ...

Cancer

... Smith MA, Gurney JG, Linet M, Tamra T, Young JL, Bunin GR (eds). Cancer Incidence and Survival among Children and Adolescents: United States SEER program 1975-1995, National Cancer Institute, SEER Program. NIH Pub. No. 99-4649. Bethesda, MD, 1999. Chapter XII Cancer among infants , James G. Gurney, ...

Bioinformatics

... as EMBOSS , Bioconductor , BioPerl , BioPython , BioRuby , and BioJava which develop and distribute shared programming tools and objects (as program modules) that make bioinformatics easier. See also biologically-inspired computing morphometrics metabolic network Important ...

Eugenics

... from an incurable disease which would be passed on to their offspring . . ." [1] Sweden forcibly sterilized 62,000 "unfits" as part of a eugenics program over a forty year period. Similar incidents occurred in Canada , Australia , Norway , Finland , Estonia , Switzerland and Iceland for people ...

Extinction

... cloning , extinct species may be "brought back to life." Proposed targets for cloning include the mammoth and thylacine . In order for such a program to succeed, a sufficient number of individuals would need to be cloned (in the case of sexually reproducing organisms) to create a viable population ...

Human Genome Project

... by the data from this project. See also: genetics , bioinformatics References Barnhart, Benjamin J. (1989). DOE Human Genome program . Human Genome Quarterly , 1 (1). Retrieved 2005-02-03. Note 2 : DeLisi, Charles. (2001). Genomes: 15 Years Later A Perspective by Charles ...

Magnetic resonance imaging

... concept of whole-body NMR scanning, as well as discovering the NMR tissue relaxation differences that made this feasible. In 2001 , the Lemelson-MIT program bestowed its Lifetime Achievement Award on Dr Damadian as "the man who invented the MRI scanner". It is still not clear if Damadian's method of ...

Polymerase chain reaction

... doubling the amount of DNA duplicated for each new cycle. Example The times and temperatures given in this example are taken from a PCR program that was successfully used on a 250 bp fragment of the C-terminus of the insulin-like growth factor (IGF). The reaction mixture consists of : ...

Rudolf Steiner

... all be gradually transcended. For Steiner, threefolding was not a social recipe or blueprint. It could not be "implemented" like some utopian program in a day, a decade, or even a century. It was a complex open process that began thousands of years ago and that he thought was likely to continue ...

Yellow fever

... References Theiler, Max and Downs, W. G. 1973. The Anthropod-Borne Viruses of Vertebrates: An Account of The Rockefeller Foundation Virus program 1951-1970 . Yale University Press. Downs, Wilbur H., et al. 1965. Virus diseases in the West Indies . Special edition of the Caribbean Medical ...

Virus

... (pb). Theiler, Max and Downs, W. G. (1973). The Anthropod-Borne Viruses of Vertebrates: An Account of the Rockerfeller Foundation Virus program 1951-1970 . Yale University Press. Numbered references Gelderblom, Hans R. (1996). 41. Structure and Classification of Viruses in ...
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