VTS Expands Industrial and Standards Efforts [President's Message]

Cleavage and polyadenylation: Ending the message expands gene regulation

Cleavage and polyadenylation (pA) is a fundamental step that is required for the maturation of primary protein encoding transcripts into functional mRNAs that can be exported from the nucleus and translated in the cytoplasm. 3'end processing is dependent on the assembly of a multiprotein processing complex on the pA signals that reside in the pre-mRNAs. Most eukaryotic genes have multiple pA si...

Formalizing and Operationalizing Industrial Standards

Industrial standards establish technical criteria for various engineering artifacts, materials, or services, with a view to ensuring their functionality, safety, and reliability. We develop a methodology and tools to systematically formalize such standards, in particular their domain specific calculation methods, in order to support the automatic verification of functional properties for concre...

Industrial Robotics Standards

A good standard under the proper market conditions can help to increase competition, reduce the cost of products and services, break trade barriers, and expand markets. The phenomenal success of the Personal Computer (PC) market is the best example of good architecture and interface standards. An additional benefit is the countless lives which have been saved and accidents which have been preve...

Production Management Standards: Industrial Need

Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Death: Closing the Constitution's Succession Gap