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An article in the June issue (Nat. Biotechnol. 22, 773–774, 2004) highlights the challenge of producing a shared vocabulary that biologists can use to communicate their results effectively, explore ...

Earthquake today: A magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck Northern California on Wednesday, occurring 8 km east of Gilroy at a depth of 2.7 km, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported. The ...

Indian equities ended the session on a subdued but steady note, with the Nifty 50 closing marginally higher at 26,215.55, up 0.04% (≈10 points), after fluctuating in a narrow band through the day.

Sequence annotation is the process of marking specific features in a DNA, RNA or protein sequence with descriptive information about structure or function. Here the authors show that gut metagenomes ...

The computer science program provides students with a broad and deep foundation in theory and modern software and hardware concepts as well as introduces students to numerous programming languages and ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a line-based method for measuring the modulation transfer function (MTF) of a display. In this method, the spatial distribution of a single line that is displayed in a ...

Abstract: Perceiving meaningful activities in a long video sequence is a challenging problem due to ambiguous definition of 'meaningfulness' as well as clutters in the scene. We approach this problem ...