In response to my analysis of the Wellstone tragedy (READER WEEKLY, 28 November 2002, pp. 18-19) and related discussion of this event, I have received quite a few emails, many of which have taken strong exception to the very idea that George W. Bush could ever have been involved in something of this kind. My suggestion that Republicans may have been motivated to take Wellstone out, alas, is not...

A graphics package has been developed to display the main chain torsion angles phi, psi (phi, Psi); (Ramachandran angles) in a protein of known structure. In addition, the package calculates the Ramachandran angles at the central residue in the stretch of three amino acids having specified the flanking residue types. The package displays the Ramachandran angles along with a detailed analysis ou...

Abstract This paper discusses how lognormal, Gumbel and log-Pearson type 3 distributions were eliminated as candidates for modelling at-site annual maximum discharge series in Bangladesh. Among candidate distributions, the generalized extreme value distribution best represented the statistical characteristics of observed data. Comparisons of distributions were based upon the root mean square de...

We consider permutations of 1, 2, ..., n whose longest monotone subsequence is of length n and are therefore extremal for the Erdős-Szekeres theorem. Such permutations correspond via the Robinson-Schensted correspondence to pairs of square n × n Young tableaux. We show that all the bumping sequences are constant and therefore these permutations have a simple description in terms of the pair of ...

We developed a software tool (SlidingBayes) for recombination analysis based on Bayesian phylogenetic inference. Sliding-Bayes provides a powerful approach for detecting potential recombination, especially between highly divergent sequences and complex HIV-1 recombinants for which simpler methods like neighbor joining (NJ) may be less powerful. SlidingBayes guides Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC...

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Single-stranded regions in RNA secondary structure are important for RNA-RNA and RNA-protein interactions. We present a probability profile approach for the prediction of these regions based on a statistical algorithm for sampling RNA secondary structures. For the prediction of phylogenetically-determined single-stranded regions in secondary structures of representative RNA sequences, the proba...