The Microbe browser is a web server providing comparative microbial genomics data. It offers comprehensive, integrated data from GenBank, RefSeq, UniProt, InterPro, Gene Ontology and the Orthologs Matrix Project (OMA) database, displayed along with gene predictions from five software packages. The Microbe browser is daily updated from the source databases and includes all completely sequenced b...

Instant messaging and presence-systems have long been popular in the “fixed” Internet world with tens of millions of PC users. The success has come despite the heterogeneous environment of multiple incompatible IM systems. In the mobile domain, however, instant messaging and presence is a relatively young thing. Hoping to avoid fragmentation in mobile IM and presence, Wireless Village was forme...

How transcription is silenced in early embryos has long been a mystery. In this issue, Guven-Ozkan et al. (2008) report that transcriptional repression during worm embryogenesis is mediated through sequestration of the general transcription factor TAF-4 and is regulated by mechanisms that orchestrate the transition between maternal and zygotic gene expression.

Iran’s security is affected by a broad region that includes the Caspian Basin, Central Asia, Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf states, Pakistan, Turkey, and the Middle East. However, an increased focus on the countries of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), as well as Iraq, on the one hand, and with members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) (including Yemen) on the other, provides a na...

A Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) driver in 65nm CMOS selectively-enables parallel low-power CMOS drivers to shape the output current waveforms and compensate VCSEL nonlinearities. The CMOS waveform-shaping drivers are AC-coupled allowing them to operate from a 1-V supply to save power, while parallel low-frequency paths provide programmable DC biasing from a 3-V supply. The meas...

With the advent of vector-space approaches, linear estimation techniques can be used in various ways for different imaging scenarios. We compare two methods for constructing linear models for surface reflectance spectra, the PrincipalComponents Analysis (PCA) and the One-Mode Analysis (OMA) [1] applied in simulating image capture under a number of realistic lighting conditions. We demonstrate t...

The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) is defining the Push-to-talk over Cellular (PoC) service where SIP is the protocol used to establish half-duplex media sessions across different participants, to send instant messages, etc. This document defines a SIP event package to support publication, subscription, and notification of additional capabilities required by the PoC service. This SIP event package ...