Automatic extraction of gene/protein biological functions from biomedical text
With the rapid advancement of biomedical science and the development of high-throughput analysis methods, the extraction of various types of information from biomedical text has become critical. Since automatic functional annotations of genes are quite useful for interpreting large amounts of high-throughput data efficiently, the demand for automatic extraction of information related to gene func...Plants defy Mendel's inheritance laws, may prompt textbook changes
Contrary to inheritance laws the scientific world has accepted for more than 100 years, some plants revert to normal traits carried by their grandparents, bypassing genetic abnormalities carried by both parents. These mutant parent plants apparently have hidden templates containing genetic information from the preceding generation that can be transferred to their offspring, even though the...Software Tool for Converting Scientific Text into a Database of Functional Relationships
Ariadne Genomics, Inc. today announced the launch of MedScan?Text-to-Knowledge Suite 2.0, a Natural Language Processing-based tool for automated extraction of biological facts from scientific literature, MEDLINE abstracts, and other text sources. A demo version of MedScan is available at www.ariadnegenomics.com. MedScan leverages hand-crafted dictionaries of protein and chemical names, and...Comprehensive biodefense text published
A new book, Biological Weapons Defense: Infectious Disease and Counterbioterrorism, deals with the intentional causality of disease. Published by Humana Press, this text is also available in e-Book. Many of the contributors come from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), the nation's premier biodefense laboratory. In this 624-page, hardcover text edite...Building a protein name dictionary from full text: a machine learning term extraction approach
The majority of information in the biological literature resides in full text articles, instead of abstracts. Yet, abstracts remain the focus of many publicly available literature data mining tools. Most literature mining tools rely on pre-existing lexicons of biological names, often extracted from curated gene or protein databases. This is a limitation, because such databases have low coverage o...Gene Inspector™ 1.6 Demo (OS 10.2.x or later) from Textco, Inc.
Description:The Gene Inspector can perform many sophisticated DNA analysis and protein analysis tasks, but this software is much more than just another sequence analysis product. Imagine having the ability to define an entire suite of analyses to be performed each time you have a new sequence, and to design custom style sheets which specify exactly how your output will look for each analysis. Because you can...Gene Construction Kit™ 2.5 from Textco, Inc.
Description:'The Gene Construction KitTM allows graphic manipulation of DNA sequences and sophisticated plasmid drawing options. It has an award winning interface design that allows graphic manipulation of DNA sequences in addition to providing sophisticated drawing capabilities for Mac and Windows users. GCK was named the "Best Plasmid Mapping Software" by the Biotechnology Software and Internet Journal for...Compliance at HP - Pretexting paranoia
used pretexting to spy on its board of directors was revealed. Because she was afraid that certain board members were leaking corporate initiatives, HP's chairwoman, Patricia Dunn, unilaterally authorized a project headed up by some independent electro...Turning ads into sales: Context is king
Marketers used to view advertising and mass media as one-in-the-same. A good ad campaign typically meant blasting the same ad across mass media as often as possible. A success...Gaming technologies alter classroom, textbook models
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The study, sponsored by Ask Jeeves, Google, ING, Lycos Search and Overture, shows that sponsored text advertising in the search environment works on two levels: paid click-thrus from active sho...Johnson Controls adopts new software to analyze text reports
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When her grandmother gave Isabelle Taylor, of St Annes, Lancs, a mobile phone two years ago she did not think that her grand child would end up constantly // sending text messages to her friends and relatives, and developing a condition known as ‘repetitive strain injury’ and becoming the youngest person in Britain to suffer from this condition. Her mother, Jane, explains that she's...Medical Text Takes on an Aussie Style
You say tomato, I say tomahto and to most of us it wouldn't make any difference, but when it comes to the language of medicine getting it right is vital. // Authored by two Queensland University of Technology academics, Australia's first medical terminology textbook was launched on December 6 and aims to advance the understanding of medical terms. Sue Walker and Jenny Nicol...Mining of Ancient Herbal Text Leads to Potential New Anti-Bacterial Drug
A unique Mayo Clinic collaboration has revived the healing wisdom of Pacific Island cultures by testing a therapeutic plant extract described in a 17th century// Dutch herbal text for its anti-bacterial properties. Early results show that extracts from the Atun tree effectively control bacteria that can cause diarrhea, as claimed by naturalist Georg Eberhard Rumpf, circa 1650. He document...Ancient Herbal Text Paves the Way to Novel Anti-bacterial Drug
An exclusive Mayo Clinic partnership has revitalized the healing wisdom of Pacific Island cultures by putting //to test a therapeutic plant extract, details of which were found in a 17th century Dutch herbal text, known for its anti-bacterial properties. Early findings have shown that extracts from the Atun tree was able to control bacteria that triggered diarrhea, as claimed by natural...Mining of Ancient Herbal Text Leads to Potential New Anti-Bacterial Drug
A unique Mayo Clinic collaboration has revived the healing wisdom of Pacific Island cultures by testing a therapeutic plant extract described //in a 17th century Dutch herbal text for its anti-bacterial properties. Early results show that extracts from the Atun tree effectively control bacteria that can cause diarrhea, as claimed by naturalist Georg Eberhard Rumpf, circa 1650. He document...The APR Hip Family - Nonporous Fully Textured The Cost-Conscious Stem
Description:The APR Hip System offers a complete line of stems to precisely match patients' anatomic needs and address surgeon preferences....Radianse Indoor Positioning Context-sensitive Medicine
Description:Context-sensitive medicine is the ability of medical equipment, devices and applications to respond in pre-determined ways based on what is happening around them. It is enabled by the associations a Radianse indoor positioning solution (IPS) establishes among people, things and spaces, and it requires identity, location and time to be known accurately and communicated continuously. The Radianse A...