We present a computational model of vowel shifts, applied in particular to the Northern Cities Vowel Shift. Our model incorporates several empirically-derived rules of vowel change. The key aspect of this model is the...
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The growing number of medical images has led to radiologist burnout, which seriously impacts the radiologist's performance. To address the previously mentioned issue, an Auxiliary Signal Guided Knowledge (ASGK) mu...
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Transformer models, originally successful in natural language processing, are now being applied to chemical and biological studies, excelling in areas such as molecular property prediction, material science, and drug ...
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Segmentation is manually performed by physicians, which takes considerable time and may be subject to observers. Automating this task can increase efficiency and consistency. Existing studies on meningioma segmentatio...
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A wide variety of disciplines contribute to bioinformatics research, including computer science, biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics. This study determines the number of research articles published on arXiv c...
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To increase maize (Zea mays L.) yields in drought-prone environments and offset predicted maize yield losses under future climates, the development of improved breeding pipelines using a multi-disciplinary approach ...
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To increase maize (Zea mays L.) yields in drought-prone environments and offset predicted maize yield losses under future climates, the development of improved breeding pipelines using a multi-disciplinary approach is essential. Elucidating key growth processes will provide opportunities to improve drought breeding progress through the identification of key phenotypic traits, ideotypes, and donors. In this study, we tested a large set of tropical and subtropical maize inbreds and single cross hybrids under reproductive stage drought stress and well-watered conditions. Patterns of biomass production, senescence, and plant water status were measured throughout the crop cycle. Under drought stress, early biomass production prior to anthesis was important for inbred yield, while delayed senescence was important for hybrid yield. Under well-watered conditions, the ability to maintain a high biomass throughout the growing cycle was crucial for inbred yield, while a stay-green pattern was important for hybrid yield. While new quantitative phenotyping tools such as spectral reflectance (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, NDVI) allowed for the characterization of growth and senescence patterns as well as yield, qualitative measurements of canopy senescence were also found to be associated with grain yield.
Transcription factors (TFs) regulate gene expression by binding to specific binding sites (TFBSs) in gene promoters. TFBS motifs may contain one or more variable positions. Although the prevailing assumption is that n...
Mutation trees are rooted trees of arbitrary node degree in which each node is labeled with a mutation set. These trees, also referred to as clonal trees, are used in computational oncology to represent the mutational...
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We employ a novel implementation of flux balance analysis to investigate the role of genome structure in the maintenance of metabolic robustness. We propose the hypothesis that the genomic organization of a bacterium ...
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(纸本)9781424431236
We employ a novel implementation of flux balance analysis to investigate the role of genome structure in the maintenance of metabolic robustness. We propose the hypothesis that the genomic organization of a bacterium buffers its metabolome against random gene deletion. To test this hypothesis, we use a novel implementation of producibility analysis to determine the metabolomic impact of gene deletions in the E. coli iJR904 genome-scale metabolic model. From these results, we determine metabolomic fragility, which we compute as the average number of metabolites knocked out across all gene deletions of a given size in a given nutrient media. We apply this analysis for three deletion window sizes (4000, 8000, 16000 bp) across the length of the E. coli genome. We compare these results to those obtained from several null distributions of permuted genomes to assess the impact of E. coli genome organization on its metabolic robustness. Our results strongly suggest that the arrangement of genes on the E. coli genome buffers metabolite producibility against random gene deletion. Our results have interesting implications for the understanding of metabolic network evolution. Future work includes examining our hypothesis for a wider range of deletion sizes and nutrient environments and extending our results to the metabolic networks of other species.
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