Mam and Sam

Sam Wang

Sam Wang is a pioneer in using statistical methods to analyze U.S. presidential election polls. In this election season interview with Neuron, he discusses diagnosing partisan gerrymandering, his research on the cerebellum, and how he analyzes polls with high accuracy.

Manipulating multiple sequence alignments via MaM and WebMaM

MaM is a software tool that processes and manipulates multiple alignments of genomic sequence. MaM computes the exact location of common repeat elements, exons and unique regions within aligned genomics sequences using a variety of user identified programs, databases and/or tables. The program can extract subalignments, corresponding to these various regions of DNA to be analyzed independently ...

Sam Reid

Pascal’s mechanical calculator and Babbage’s Analytic Engine set the stage for a great deal of modern computing machinery. Modern versions of these concepts were finally realized in von Neumann’s architecture in about 1950. However, the science of computing does not depend on physical implementations of these ideas, but rather on virtual machines—that is, abstractions that perform computations ...

Loopy SAM

Smoothing approaches to the Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) problem in robotics are superior to the more common filtering approaches in being exact, better equipped to deal with non-linearities, and computing the entire robot trajectory. However, while filtering algorithms that perform map updates in constant time exist, no analogous smoothing method is available. We aim to rectify...

Sam and IVG without ASH.