Error correction of noisy reads obtained from high-throughput DNA sequencers is an important problem since read quality significantly affects downstream analyses such as detection of genetic variation and the complexity and success of sequence assembly. Most of the current error correction algorithms are only capable of recovering substitution errors. In this work, Pindel, an algorithm that sim...

Pictorial stimuli are commonly used by scientists to explore central processes; including memory, attention, and language. Pictures that have been collected and put into sets for these purposes often contain visual ambiguities that lead to name disagreement amongst subjects. In the present work, we propose new norms which reflect these sources of name disagreement, and we apply this method to t...

The electronic learner corpus of student texts in German, the PACT, contains parts-of-speech (POS) tagging. This markup is performed automatically using RFTagger. Since are written by students, they may contain various kinds errors: grammatical, spelling, stylistic, and others. Sentences be formulated incorrectly, without taking into account rules language accepted norms. can affect work progra...

Pharmacies permeate and interconnect various actions developed in different sectors within the complex process of the use of drugs in a hospital. Dispensing failures mean that a breach has occurred in one of the last safety links in the use of drugs. Although most failures do not harm patients, their existence suggests fragility in the process and indicates an increased risk of severe accidents...

A number of different approaches are used in diagnostic laboratories to detect the 1.5 Mb duplication at 17p11.2 seen in approximately 70% of patients with hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy type 1 (HMSN1). Here we compare the methods used in UK diagnostic laboratories to detect the duplication. Samples referred to participating centres for HMSN testing were collected, randomised, and dist...

The authors regret the following errors within the published version of this paper as follows: Keys for Fig. 6a and b were incorrect. Please find a corrected version of Fig. 6 below.

Erratum Unfortunately the original version of this article in BMC Endocrine Disorders [1] contained errors in the Figures. Several incorrect images were unintentionally taken as representative images in Fig. 1, 2, 3 and 4. Therefore the incorrect images have been replaced with the correct images below. The band intensity for these images has been re-measured and reanalysed, and the original fin...