Genomics in Space Life Sciences

Genomics in Space Life Sciences

Since the early days of manned spaceflight, hazardous effects of the space environment on living organisms have been disputed. With the continuous manning of the International Space Station, the planned Chinese space station, and renewed interest in returning to the Moon and sending manned flights to Mars, identifying and addressing the potential outcomes of long-term space exposures is critica...

Incorporating Genomics and Bioinformatics across the Life Sciences Curriculum

1Department of Biology, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America, 2Department of Biological Sciences, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota, United States of America, 3Department of Biology, Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio, United States of America, 4 Biochemistry Department, University of MissouriColumbia, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, 5Depa...

Space life sciences: closed ecological systems: earth and space applications.

This issue contains peer-reviewed papers from a workshop on Closed Ecological Systems: Earth and Space Applications at the 35th COSPAR General Assembly in Paris, France, convened in July 2004. The contributions reflected the wide range of international work in the field, especially Europe, Russia, Japan, and the United States. The papers are arranged according to four main themes: 1) Methods of...

Space Life Sciences: closed artificial ecosystems and life support systems.

Clustering in life sciences.

Clustering is the task of organizing a set of objects into meaningful groups. These groups can be disjoint, overlapping, or organized in some hierarchical fashion. The key element of clustering is the notion that the discovered groups are meaningful. This definition is intentionally vague, as what constitutes meaningful is to a large extent, application dependent. In some applications this may ...