We have applied high throughput methods for cloning and expression of more than 850 genes from the Bacillus subtilis genome. The process uses 96-well plates and is automated from the level of primer design to the dete...
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We have applied high throughput methods for cloning and expression of more than 850 genes from the Bacillus subtilis genome. The process uses 96-well plates and is automated from the level of primer design to the detection of soluble protein by a tag detection screen. This process was applied to a set of cytoplasmic targets from Bacillus subtilis to produce clones expressing soluble protein for incorporation into the structure determination pipeline of the Midwest Center for Structural Genomics. We also evaluated the feasibility of these plate-based methods for domain-based cloning and expression of secretory proteins and putative soluble domains of membrane proteins. This approach shows promise for implementation in a high throughput format and could provide additional target resources for structure determination. The continued development of new technologies that can be implemented in an automated format will be essential for continued success in the structural genomic programs.
Let B be a set of n unit balls in 3. We show that the combinatorial complexity of the space of lines in 3 that avoid all the balls of B is O(n3+Ε), for any Ε > 0. This result has connections to problems in visibi...
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Let B be a set of n unit balls in 3. We show that the combinatorial complexity of the space of lines in 3 that avoid all the balls of B is O(n3+Ε), for any Ε > 0. This result has connections to problems in visibility, ray shooting, motion planning and geometric optimization.
In discrete detector PET, natural pixels are image basis functions calculated from responses of detector pairs. By using reconstruction with natural pixels the discretization of the object into a predefined grid can b...
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It is generally believed that the queueing behavior of an arrival process is most sensitive to its first and second order statistics. In this paper, we show that this is not generally true. We consider the queueing be...
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It is generally believed that the queueing behavior of an arrival process is most sensitive to its first and second order statistics. In this paper, we show that this is not generally true. We consider the queueing behavior of two classes of sources. The first class is the superposition of multiple discrete autoregressive sources of order 1 (referred to as DAR(1) sources), and the second class is a single DAR(1) source having the same first and second order statistics as the superposed source. In particular, we show that in the homogeneous case, the mean queue lengths of the two models are identical, but the queue length variances of the two models are significantly different depending on the correlation of individual sources.
Data Grids seek to harness geographically distributed resources for large-scale data-intensive problems. Such problems, involving loosely coupled jobs and large data-sets, are found in fields like high-energy physics,...
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The MPI Standard supports derived datatypes, which allow users to describe noncontiguous memory layout and communicate noncontiguous data with a single communication function. This feature enables an MPI implementatio...
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We introduce (1/r)-cuttings for collections of surfaces in 3-space that are sensitive to an additional collection of curves. Specifically, let S be a set of n surfaces in 3 of constant description complexity, and let ...
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We introduce (1/r)-cuttings for collections of surfaces in 3-space that are sensitive to an additional collection of curves. Specifically, let S be a set of n surfaces in 3 of constant description complexity, and let C be a set of m curves in 3 of constant description complexity. Let 1 ≤ r ≤ min{m, n} be a given parameter. We show the existence of a (1/r)-cutting Ξ of S of size O(r3+Ε), for any Ε > 0, such that the number of crossings between the curves of C and the cells of Ξ is O(m1+Εr). The latter bound improves, by roughly a factor of r, the bound that can be obtained for cuttings based on vertical decompositions. We view curve-sensitive cuttings as a powerful tool that is potentially useful in various scenarios that involve curves and surfaces in three dimensions. As a preliminary application, we use the construction to obtain a bound of O(m1/2+Εn2+Ε), for any Ε > 0, on the complexity of the multiple zone of m curves in the arrangement of n surfaces in 3-space.
The cutting triangular cycles of lines in space were investigated. It was shown that a collection of lines in 3-space can be cut into a subquadratic number of pieces, such that all depth cycles defined by triples of l...
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The cutting triangular cycles of lines in space were investigated. It was shown that a collection of lines in 3-space can be cut into a subquadratic number of pieces, such that all depth cycles defined by triples of lines are eliminated. A long-standing open problem in computational geometry, motivated by hidden-surface removal in computer graphics, was solved.
The great number of different local environments in amorphous alloys leads to the evolution of complicated non collinear magnetic structures. Alloy additions can affect the magnetic structure in surprising ways. For e...
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The great number of different local environments in amorphous alloys leads to the evolution of complicated non collinear magnetic structures. Alloy additions can affect the magnetic structure in surprising ways. For example, replacement of a small amount of Fe with Co increases the saturation magnetization even though Co has a much smaller moment than Fe. The calculated behavior of the magnetic structure of (Fe(1-x)Mx)0.8B0.2 with M=Co, Cr, Zr, and Mn2Zr are presented.
High-performance simulations in computational science often involve the combined software contributions of multidisciplinary teams of scientists, engineers, math.maticians, and computer scientists. One goal of compone...
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