This paper presents a reconfigurable machine for applications in image or video compression. The machine can be used stand alone or as a universal accelerator co-processor for desktop computers for image processing. It is well suited for image compression algorithms such as JPEG for still pictures or for encoding MPEG movies. It provides a much cheaper and more flexible hardware platform than s...

Gliss is an application for iOS that lets the user sequence five separate instruments and play them back in various ways. Sequences can be created by drawing onto the screen while the sequencer is running. The playhead of the sequencer can be set to randomly deviate from the drawings or can be controlled via the accelerometer of the device. This makes Gliss a hybrid of a sequencer, an instrumen...

We have developed a protocol for fast, nonradioactive, mRNA differential display reverse transcription PCR (DDRT-PCR) based on a commercial automated sequencer with RNA isolated from pig granulosa cells. We sought to discover conditions that would minimize the problem of using relatively small primers labeled with large infrared dye molecule, IR41, required for the sequencer. Extended IR41-labe...

This article investigates a mechanism to tolerate malicious nature of sequencer in moving sequencer based atomic broadcast in distributed systems. Various mechanisms are already given for moving sequencer based atomic broadcast like RMP [1], DTP [2], Pin Wheel [3] and mechanism proposed by Srivastava et al. [4]. But none of these mechanisms are efficient to tolerate different failure. Scholarly...

Promising new sequencing technologies, based on sequencing-by-synthesis (SBS), are starting to deliver large amounts of DNA sequence at very low cost. Polymorphism detection is a key application. We describe general methods for improved quality scores and accurate automated polymorphism detection, and apply them to data from the Roche (454) Genome Sequencer 20. We assess our methods using known...

DNA primer sets, labeled with two fluorescent dyes to exploit fluorescence energy transfer (ET), can be efficiently excited with a single laser line and emit strong fluorescence at distinctive wavelengths. Such ET primers are superior to single fluorophore-labeled primers for DNA sequencing and other multiple color-based analyses [J. Ju, C. Ruan, C. W. Fuller, A. N. Glazer and R. A. Mathies (19...

To our knowledge, the most widely used automated DNA sequencers in the world are the Model 377 and Model 373 DNA Sequencers manufactured by PE Applied Biosystems (Foster City, CA, USA). These sequencers detect the emission spectra of the four fluorescent dyes in sequencing reactions that are excited by an argon ion laser. Each of the four possible bases are labeled by a different dye, possessin...