Sequence comparison is one of the most important primitive operations in bioinformatics. Roughly speaking, this operation finds which parts of sequences are alike and which parts are different. As the size of a sequence database scales to millions of base pairs, it becomes impractical to search the whole database with sequence alignment methods based on the dynamic programming approach which yi...

In this paper, we propose a new filtration method, called Transformation-based Database Filtration method (TDF), to screen out those data sequences of a DNA sequence database which cannot satisfy a given query sequence. Our proposed method consists of two phases. First, we divide each data sequence into several windows (blocks), each of which is transformed into a data feature vector using the ...

This concern also applies to filter components and housings. Pall recognizes the importance of proper material selection, cleanliness standards, housing surface preparation, and specialized manufacturing processes with regard to product quality. Our knowledge allowed us to introduce practices that have become industry standards. All Pall Gaskleen filter assemblies are packaged in special double...

This concern also applies to filter components and housings. Pall recognizes the importance of proper material selection, cleanliness standards, housing surface preparation, and specialized manufacturing processes with regard to product quality. Our knowledge allowed us to introduce practices that have become industry standards. All Pall Gaskleen filter assemblies are packaged in special double...

OBJECTIVES This study sought to determine the association of chronic kidney disease (CKD) with high ankle brachial index (ABI) measurement and to compare its strength with that of CKD with a low ABI. BACKGROUND CKD is an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) events. A high ABI, a marker of lower extremity arterial stiffness, is associated with CVD events and mortality. The as...

INTRODUCTION We aimed to evaluate the intralobar renal arteries indexes using the Doppler ultrasonography indexes, which have become the established method of kidney monitoring, in living unrelated kidney donors during the postnephrectomy period. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this prospective study, we evaluated and followed up 34 living unrelated kidney donors. The Doppler ultrasonography indexes...

Although the circulating renin-angiotensin system (RAS) is suppressed in salt-sensitive populations, the role of the intrarenal RAS in blood pressure (BP) control in these groups independent of the circulating RAS is uncertain. We evaluated the relationship between 24-hour urinary angiotensinogen excretion and either office (mean of 5 measurements; n=425) or 24-hour ambulatory (n=340) BP indepe...