Servants of Medicine: Augustus Waller—Father and Son Physiologists

Cecil Augustus Joll

Of Sovereigns and Servants

AUGUSTUS: ab initio prediction of alternative transcripts

AUGUSTUS is a software tool for gene prediction in eukaryotes based on a Generalized Hidden Markov Model, a probabilistic model of a sequence and its gene structure. Like most existing gene finders, the first version of AUGUSTUS returned one transcript per predicted gene and ignored the phenomenon of alternative splicing. Herein, we present a WWW server for an extended version of AUGUSTUS that ...

Augustus Desiré Waller (1856-1922).

The electrocardiograph is one of the most important instruments with which to examine the human heart and is in constant use all over the world, yet we doubt whether many physicians know who was the first man to demonstrate that the electrical response accompanying the movement of the human heart could easily be shown by a clinical application of a relatively simple instrument. In the early par...

The 65th Symposium of the Society for General Physiologists: Energizing research in mitochondrial physiology and medicine

The annual Society of General Physiologists (SGP) symposium has a six-decade legacy as the premier and innovative international meeting for physiologists, cell biologists, and biophysicists. During September 7–11th, 2011, more than 130 scientists participated in the 65th SGP symposium entitled “Mitochondrial Physiology and Medicine” at Woods Hole, MA. In a survey distributed at the end of the c...