Destroying the ring: Freeing DNA from Ku with ubiquitin

Use of commercial cards for freeing DNA from mycobacterial strains.

A new commercial system for rapid extraction of DNA, consisting of a card on which a drop of bacterial suspension is spotted, was evaluated with 43 mycobacterial strains. Once dried, a small disk of the seeded area was directly transferred in the amplification mixture. All the samples produced good quality amplification products which were satisfactorily sequenced.

Freeing vision from frames

3 Volume 3, Issue 1, May 006 The notion of a ‘frame’ of video data has become so embedded in computer vision that it is taken for granted. This is natural, given that the only available input devices have always been frame-based—from drum scanners and videcon tubes to CCDs (chargecoupled devices) and CMOS (complimentary metal-oxide semiconductor) imagers. Also, frame-based imagers have undeniab...

Freeing Cooperation from Servers Tyranny

This paper deals with computer supported cooperative work in the context of untethered scenarios typical of mobile environments. The scenario envisions a number of homogeneous peers that are able to provide the same services, disconnect frequently from the net, and perform part of their work while disconnected. The application we choose is Configuration Management (CM), a critical cooperative a...

Freeing your Computer from the Hardware

In this paper we propose an alternative software model for modern computing environments. The new model features the decoupling of software execution from the computer hardware by encapsulating all software execution in an abstraction we call capsules. We treat capsules as first class objects that can be named, controlled, migrated, and replicated. We argue that by putting software execution in...

Destroying Civilization, Destroying Nature