L. Ge,a W. Peer,b S. Robert,c R. Swarup,d S. Ye,e M. Prigge,a J.D. Cohen,e J. Friml,c A. Murphy,b D. Tang,f and M. Estellea,1 a Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0116 b Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 c Department of Plant Systems Biology, Flanders Institute for B...

1 New York Genome Center, New York, NY 10013, USA 2 Computational and Systems Biology Program, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA 3 Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, 9 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA 4 Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA 5 Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge,...

William S. Oetting,1∗ Steven E. Brenner,2 Anthony J. Brookes,3 Marc S. Greenblatt,4 Reece K. Hart,5 Rachel Karchin,6 Shamil R. Sunyaev,7 and Peter E. Taschner8,9 1Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; 2Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California; 3University of Leicester, Leicester, Un...

Improving canopy photosynthetic light use efficiency instead of leaf photosynthesis holds great potential to catalyze the next "green revolution". However, leaves in a canopy experience different biochemical limitations due to the heterogeneities of microclimates and also physiological parameters. Mechanistic dynamic systems models of canopy photosynthesis are now available which can be used to...

Modern scientific research depends on computer technology to organize and analyze large data sets. This is more true for evolutionary bioinformatics—a relatively new discipline that has been developing rapidly as a sub-discipline of bioinformatics. Evolutionary bioinformatics devotes to leveraging the power of nature’s experiment of evolution to extract key findings from sequence and experiment...

Fascinating new data, revealed through gene sequencing, comparative genomics, and genetic engineering, precisely establish which genes are involved in mate choice and mating activity--behaviors that are surprisingly understudied from a genetic perspective. Discussed here are some of the recently identified visual and chemosensory genes that are involved in mate choice and mating behavior. These...

1 School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States of America, 2 European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 3 Department of Biological Sciences and Computational Biology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of Am...

In this paper, ideas from the fields of evolution and genetics are incorporated in a new approach to solve heat transfer problems. Biological metaphors have been used as problem-solving strategies in the engineering sciences for well over fifty years (Denning, 1992). Early efforts include the work of Box ( 1957 ) and Friedman (1959). A rigorous mathematical formalism was introduced by Holland a...

Simultaneous Detection, Genotyping and Quantification of 1 Human Papillomaviruses by Multicolor Real-Time PCR and 2 Melting Curve Analysis 3 Yiqun Liao†, Yulin Zhou†, Qiwei Guo, Xiaoting Xie, Ena Luo, Jian Li * and Qingge Li * 4 School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, Fujian, China; 5 Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, Department of Genetics, Prenatal Diagnosis Cente...