BACKGROUND More than in other domains the heterogeneous services world in bioinformatics demands for a methodology to classify and relate resources in a both human and machine accessible manner. The Semantic Web, which is meant to address exactly this challenge, is currently one of the most ambitious projects in computer science. Collective efforts within the community have already led to a bas...

The intention of this presentation is to propose a new point-of-view, from which a quest for innovative applications of Photogrammetry in assessment of cultural heritage can be initiated. As such, the main point rests on the presentation of new ideas, rather than on completely resolving the involved technical issues. Wölfflin’s principles in for comparative examination of pieces of art and arch...

Oliver Goldsmith said, ‘Where wealth accumulates, men decay’: this should make many programmers of free open source software some of the healthiest people on the planet. One can only aspire to be of independent means and become what the Victorians might have called ‘A gentleman bioinformatician’; after all, if you’re going to have delusions you may as well have really satisfying ones. The reali...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of some commonly used cephalometric landmarks of monitor-displayed images with and without image emboss enhancement. The following null hypothesis was tested: there is no improvement in landmark detection accuracy between monitor-displayed images, with and without image embossing enhancement. Forty lateral cephalometric radiographs, taken from ...

UNLABELLED The wcd system is an open source tool for clustering expressed sequence tags (EST) and other DNA and RNA sequences. wcd allows efficient all-versus-all comparison of ESTs using either the d(2) distance function or edit distance, improving existing implementations of d(2). It supports merging, refinement and reclustering of clusters. It is 'drop in' compatible with the StackPack clust...

UNLABELLED wEMBOSS provides a web environment from which the user can access EMBOSS in a user-friendly way. wEMBOSS supplies each user with space and tools to organize and review his or her work. AVAILABILITY wEMBOSS can be downloaded at http://www.wemboss.org CONTACT [email protected].