LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Torsten Schwede, Biozentrum Universität Basel & SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Basel, Switzerland Katja Jenni, Biozentrum Universität Basel, Switzerland Rita Manohar, Biozentrum Universität Basel, Switzerland Sarah Güthe, Biozentrum Universität Basel & SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Basel, Switzerland Yvonne Steger, Biozentrum Universität Basel, Switze...

The purpose of this study was to determine the short-term stabilometric effects of proprioceptive training in athletes by using a BOSU ball and a Swiss ball as unstable platforms. Thirty-seven athletes from a variety of disciplines were divided into a control group (n = 17) and an experimental group (n = 20). Both performed a warm-up, and in addition, the experimental group carried out a propri...

A serological classification of five feline calicivirus (FCV) strains of Swiss origin and 13 isolates of Austrian origin was attempted. The antisera used had been prepared in rabbits against the five Swiss strains and in goats against six American strains. Homologous and heterologous neutralization tests were made in tube cultures using sera at dilutions that contained 20 antibody units, in una...

The composition and physical nature of milk is very complex. The stability of milk depends upon the different constituent of milk. Determination of heat stability of milk is one of the factors that assess the stability of milk. In this study an attempt was made to measure the heat stability of milk obtained from different varieties of cows and also made an attempt to identify the different comp...

Swiss mice are among the most commonly used outbred strains in biomedical research. Because prior knowledge of the baseline phenotypes of mouse strains will allow informed selection of strains for particular experiments, we sought to characterize the behavior of two previously untested outbred Swiss strains--NIH Swiss and Black Swiss--in the two most widely used paradigms for evaluating the cog...

In their paper “Database verification studies of SWISSPROT and GenBank” Karp et al. (2001) conclude: (1) “SWISS-PROT is more incomplete than we expected. . . ”; (2) “Even if we combine SWISS-PROT and TrEMBL, some sequences from the full genomes are missing from the combined dataset”; (3) “In many cases, translated GenBank genes do not exactly match the corresponding SWISS-PROT sequences, . . . ...

A database was created on the structure-functional organization of the locus-control regions (LCRs) in eukaryotic genomes. The database contains two sections including (i) formalized descriptions of LCRs and (ii) hypertextual description of the LCR structure and function. Both sections are linked by hypertexts between each other and with external databases such as TRRD, SWISS-PROT, EMBL, and Me...

Tournaments are a widely used mechanism to rank alternatives in noisy environment. This paper investigates fundamental issue of economics tournament design: what is the best usage limited resources, that is, how should be compared pairwise approximate their true but latent ranking. We consider various formats including knockout tournaments, multi-stage championships consisting round-robin group...