Searching for Darwinian selection in natural populations has been the focus of a multitude of studies over the last decades. Here we present the 1000 Genomes Selection Browser 1.0 (http://hsb.upf.edu) as a resource for signatures of recent natural selection in modern humans. We have implemented and applied a large number of neutrality tests as well as summary statistics informative for the acti...

The effectiveness of delivering course contents for distance learning depends on the organization of the course material, interaction methods and selection of exercise/test questions. The selection of questions plays a role equally important as the course presentation material. The use of multimedia may help ease the learning experience and so does the interaction among the students. A systemat...

The university course timetabling is known to be a highly constrained optimization problem, more complex than examination timetabling. Many different approaches, including evolutionary algorithms, tabu search, simulated annealing, and their hybrids, are developed for solving the problem. The negative selection algorithm, an algorithm inspired by the immune system, has successfully been applied ...