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LBFO: toward an artificial language for ontology development
The syntax of LBFO represents the initial step toward the creation of a rigorously characterized, recursively defined, artificial language for the sole purpose of ontology development. The underlyi…
Received 23 November 2009 13:55 UTC; Posted 23 November 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Reacquainting two cultures. Preventing a de-elsification of European nutrigenomics?
Sir Charles Snow, being a writer and a scientist, felt that he “was moving among two groups – comparable in intelligence, identical in race, not grossly different in social origin, earning about th…
Received 17 November 2009 10:41 UTC; Posted 17 November 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics
Virtual Fly Brain: An ontology-linked schema of the Drosophila Brain
Drosophila neuro-anatomical data is scattered across a large, diverse literature dating back over 75 years and a growing number of community databases. Lack of a standardized nomenclature for neuro…
Received 17 November 2009 10:39 UTC; Posted 17 November 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience, Bioinformatics
Increased flood frequency and magnitude decreases density of a stream-breeding salamander in urbanized watersheds
Background/Question/MethodsAs urbanization increases across the globe, more ecologists have taken note of its consequences to stream systems. Sufficient data have been collected to document repea…
Received 12 November 2009 21:51 UTC; Posted 13 November 2009
Posted to: Ecology
The Relationship between the UniProt Knowledgebase (UniProtKB) and the IntAct Molecular Interaction Databases
IntAct provides a freely available, open source database system and analysis tools for protein interaction data. All interactions are derived from literature curation or direct user submission and …
Received 03 November 2009 16:55 UTC; Posted 10 November 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Ecophysiological traits of grasses: resolving the effects of photosynthetic pathway and phylogeny
C4 photosynthesis is an important example of convergent evolution in plants, having arisen in eudicots, monocots and diatoms. Comparisons between such diverse groups are confounded by phylogenetic …
Received 03 November 2009 17:22 UTC; Posted 04 November 2009
Posted to: Ecology
BRAGOMAP – a new Perl script for high throughoutput blast results analysis including GO and MapMan automatic annotations
Analyzing of sequences similarities is the first and most important method used to find out the function of unknown nucleotides. Searching of homologs should be done carefully not to loose any impo…
Received 25 October 2009 19:49 UTC; Posted 26 October 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics, Plant Biology
21 Tesla MRI Microimaging of Rat Heart by Superparamagnetic Antimyoglobin Bound Nanoparticles
Superparamagnetic iron-oxide bound antimyoglobin (SPIOM) characteristics were analyzed at different pH. After injecting SPIOM in heart, ex vivo magnetic resonance microimaging (MRM) technique was …
Received 22 October 2009 13:49 UTC; Posted 23 October 2009
Posted to: Biotechnology
Evaluating experiential education through an intertidal ecology field trip.
Background/Question/MethodsStanford SEEDS and the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve have worked together with Redwood High School to implement an experiential ecology education program. The Re…
Received 20 October 2009 04:34 UTC; Posted 21 October 2009
Posted to: Ecology
BioPortal: Ontologies and Integrated Data Resources at the Click of a Mouse
BioPortal (http://bioportal.bioontology.org) is an open repository of biomedical ontologies that provides programmatic and web-based access to ontologies develope…
Received 16 October 2009 10:08 UTC; Posted 16 October 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
