Editorial: Formatting Europe –Mapping a Continent

Editorial: What Is Brain Mapping?

G20 World Brain Mapping Initiative (Neuroscience/N-20) is Putting Brain Mapping on the top of Global Economic Issues The Society for Brain Mapping, Therapeutics, and Brain Mapping Foundation are propelling therapeutic advances in Nano-Neurosurgery, Nano-Bio-Electronics, Artificial Intelligence, Neuro-Supercomputing and ‘cross-pollination’ among the bio-medical sciences and engine...

Social-Emotional World: Mapping a Continent*

This essay describes two basic aspects of the social-emotional world: degree of connectedness (solidarity/alienation) and a group of discrete emotions. This field needs to be clarified, mostly because of the use of vernacular words rather than clearly defined concepts. Two sets of definitions are proposed. The first involves conceptual and operational definitions of degree of connectedness. The...

VariantValidator: Accurate validation, mapping, and formatting of sequence variation descriptions

The Human Genome Variation Society (HGVS) variant nomenclature is widely used to describe sequence variants in scientific publications, clinical reports, and databases. However, the HGVS recommendations are complex and this often results in inaccurate variant descriptions being reported. The open-source hgvs Python package (https://github.com/biocommons/hgvs) provides a programmatic interface f...

The Quiet Continent: Religion and Politics in Europe

A Pretty Good Formatting Pipeline

Proper formatting makes the structure of a program apparent and aids program comprehension. The need to format code arises in code generation and transformation, as well as in normal reading and editing situations. Commonly used pretty-printing tools in transformation frameworks provide an easy way to produce indented code that is fairly readable for humans, without reaching the level of purpos...