The French rolling census: A census that allows a progressive modernization

The French Rolling Census : a decade of experience

Since 2004, France has replaced the traditional form of the census by a rolling census, with the goal of producing annually updated information at local levels as well as to spread the cost of the census over the years. Almost ten years later, a review of new census can be made. The new French census reached most of its goals and publishes good quality results every year. However, some difficul...

A millennial myosin census.

The past decade has seen a remarkable explosion in our knowledge of the size and diversity of the myosin superfamily. Since these actin-based motors are candidates to provide the molecular basis for many cellular movements, it is essential that motility researchers be aware of the complete set of myosins in a given organism. The availability of cDNA and/or draft genomic sequences from humans, D...

Spatial Distribution Of Iranian Population In Canada: A Portrait Using The 2001 Census Data

A census of protein repeats.

In this study, we analyzed all known protein sequences for repeating amino acid segments. Although duplicated sequence segments occur in 14 % of all proteins, eukaryotic proteins are three times more likely to have internal repeats than prokaryotic proteins. After clustering the repetitive sequence segments into families, we find repeats from eukaryotic proteins have little similarity with prok...

A Census of Marine Life

A humanity has begun to explore Mars, we are still colonizing our home planet. The 70 percent of Earth beneath the oceans is twice the area of Mars and the moon combined, but it is not nearly as well mapped. Ninety-five percent of Earth’s biosphere volume is in the oceans, where life has thrived for billions of years. At the genetic level, the oceans contain the vast majority of Earth’s biodive...