JMP134 GMI1000 The client program contains a graphical user interface to faciliate easy interaction with the database for a non-expert. Necessary pre-processing steps to integrate data into the local database are performed automatically. Different file formats of biological sequence data can be imported and converted into each other. Global and local alignments can be performed interactively. A...

We present a new global three-dimensional chemical model for the troposphere, named CHASER (CHemical AGCM for Study of atmospheric Environment and Radiative forcing). This model, developed in the framework of Center for Climate System Research/National Institute for Environment Studies (CCSR/NIES) atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM), is aimed to study tropospheric photochemistry and it...

BACKGROUND Chemical speciation analysis is essential for the biological monitoring of inorganic arsenic exposure using urine as indicator medium. There is increasing demand for a certified reference material (CRM) of urine matrix for arsenic speciation. METHODS Urine (10 L) was collected from non-occupationally exposed Japanese males. We prepared 954 bottles of urine, each containing approxim...

The genome of Sorangium cellulosum has recently been completely sequenced, and it is the largest bacterial genome sequenced so far. In their report, Schneiker et al. (in Complete genome sequence of the myxobacterium Sorangium cellulosum, Nat. Biotechnol., 2007, 25, 1281-1289) concluded that 'In the absence of the GC-skew inversion typically seen at the replication origin of bacterial chromosome...

This paper analyses both global and regional approaches to solving problems of energy security and ecological imbalance by addressing specifically the problems of China’s energy security. China’s growing energy dependence has become a major concern for both economic and national security policymakers in that country. The ambitious goal of modernization of the economy along the lines of the othe...

The chromate resistance determinant of Pseudomonas aeruginosa plasmid pUM505 was cloned into broad-host-range vector pSUP104. The hybrid plasmid containing an 11.1-kilobase insert conferred chromate resistance and reduced uptake of chromate in P. aeruginosa PAO1. Resistance to chromate was not expressed in Escherichia coli. Contiguous 1.6- and 6.3-kilobase HindIII fragments from this plasmid hy...

The cyanobacterial genus Leptolyngbya is widely distributed throughout terrestrial environments and freshwater. Because environmental factors, such as oxygen level, available water content, and light intensity, vary between soil surface and water bodies, terrestrial Leptolyngbya should have genomic differences with freshwater species to adapt to a land habitat. To study the genomic features of ...

AsiaFlux (http://www.asiaflux.net/) was established in 1999 as the Asian arm of FLUXNET, worldwide flux network, to develop collaborative research and data sets on cycles carbon water key ecosystems Asia, organize workshops training current related global change themes, cultivate next generation scientists be informed leaders with skills perspectives. Over past 20 years, has developed into a re...

background: spondyloarthropathies are a group of closely related inflammatory arthritis which involve the axial skeleton and are negative for rheumatoid factor. objective: this case-control study was conducted to examine hla- b27 positivity in patients with seronegative spondyloarthritis (ssa) as per essg criteria and compare the frequency with healthy controls because a lower positivity is rep...