Life sciences lag in stringent standards

Standards in Genomic Sciences

The State of Standards in Genomic Sciences

On July 20, 2009, we began the public phase of an experiment in open access publishing with the first issue of Standards in Genomic Sciences (SIGS) [1]. The rational for the journal was to fulfill a perceived need in the community for the continued publication of “genome papers”, the once familiar companion articles that accompanied the public release of genome sequencing projects. Those papers...

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 ...

Dosimetry in Life Sciences

In the context of these financing difficulties it does not seem too likely that larger-thanneeded commercially available units will be purchased and operated at low capacity as an alternative to small units. This approach can be economical over the long term and is an immediate way to purchase a commercially available reactor. It does not seem likely, however, since it would exacerbate the prob...

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F unctional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a noninvasive, powerful tool that has been utilized in both research and clinical arenas since the early 1990s [1] and has provided valuable insights to the understanding of the human brain function. fMRI has enabled researchers to directly study the temporal and spatial changes in the brain as a function of various stimuli. Because it relies on ...