the genetic diversity of 40 tobacco (nicotiana tabacum l.) cultivars was analyzed using 12 issr primers. thecultivars were evaluated for 14 traits using a simple lattice design (7×7) with two replications. of 149 amplified bands, 142 (95.3%) were polymorphic. maximum and minimum bands were generated by primers ubc825 (17 bands and 94.11% polymorphic) and ubc824 (7 bands and 100% polymorphic), r...

The GeoPCA package is the first tool developed for multivariate analysis of dihedral angles based on principal component geodesics. Principal component geodesic analysis provides a natural generalization of principal component analysis for data distributed in non-Euclidean space, as in the case of angular data. GeoPCA presents projection of angular data on a sphere composed of the first two pri...

the first step in breeding programs is detecting the genetic diversity in breeding materials. molecular markers help to reduce costs and time in breeding programs. genetic variation in 49 genotypes of tobacco were studied using 12 issr markers, 3 retrotransposon markers and the combination of issr and retrotransposons. one hundred forty seven polymorphic bands were produced using 16 primers. to...

In this paper we present a novel parallel coordinate based clustering method using Gaussian mixture distribution models to characterize the conformational space of proteins. An algorithm is proposed to detect highly populated regions which may correspond to interesting intermediate states that are difficult to detect experimentally. The data is represented as feature vectors of N dimensions, wh...

the genetic diversity of 89 flue-cured tobacco varieties was examined using 12 issr primers. these cultivarswere evaluated at the guilan tobacco research center, rasht, iran, using a 7×7 simple lattice design with two replications, and 12 morphological traits. the total number of pcr amplified products was 143 bands ranging from 450 to 3000 bp, of which 108 bands (74.28%) were polymorphic. prim...

Our work on a finite element model of the skull of Macaca aims to investigate the functional significance of specific features of primate skulls and to determine to which of the input variables (elastic properties, muscle forces) the model behavior is most sensitive. Estimates of muscle forces acting on the model are derived from estimates of physiological cross-sectional areas (PCSAs) of the j...

Radial axes plots are multivariate visualization techniques that extend scatterplots in order to represent high-dimensional data as points on an observable display. Well-known methods include star coordinates or principal component biplots, which represent data attributes as vectors that define axes, and produce linear dimensionality reduction mappings. In this paper we propose a hybrid approac...

The suitability of principal component analysis (PCA) to yield slow collective coordinates for use within a dimension reduced description of conformational motions in proteins is evaluated. Two proteins are considered, T4 lysozyme and crambin. We present a quantitative evaluation of the convergence of conformational coordinates obtained with principal component analysis. Detailed analyses of (>...