introduction: streptomyces species are mycelial, aerobic gram-positive bacteria that are isolated from soil and produce a diverse range of antibiotics. streptomyces griseus produces the antibiotic, streptomycin and forms spores even in a liquid culture. the gene cluster for the production of streptomycin antibiotic contains strr gene that encodes strr, a pathway-specific regulator. then, this p...

Trading-rule representation is an important factor to consider when designing a quantitative trading system. This study implements a trading strategy as a rule-based policy. The result is an intuitive human-readable format which allows for seamless integration of domain knowledge. The components of a policy are specified and represented as a set of rewrite rules in a context-free grammar. These...

Snakemake is a novel workflow engine with a simple Python-derived workflow definition language and an optimizing execution environment. It is the first system that supports multiple named wildcards (or variables) in input and output filenames of each rule definition. It also allows to write human-readable workflows that document themselves. We have found Snakemake especially useful for building...

A dwarf strain of Staphylococcus aureus was isolated in pure culture from styes on the eyelid of a young woman. Incubation of pus cultured on horse blood agar in 5% CO2 yielded a typical golden staphylococcus, coagulase and catalase positive and penicillin sensitive, but on duplicate plates in air the growth was of tiny white colonies only 0.25 mm. in diameter. These were penicillinsensitive Gr...

In this paper we promote a document-oriented approach to the development of contentintensive applications (i.e., applications that critically depend on the informational contents and on the characterization of the contents’ structure). This approach is the result of our experience as developers in the educational and in the hypermedia domains, as well as in the domain of knowledge-based systems...

As the uptake of the Semantic Web vision has been relatively slow, a strategy based on pragmatic steps is being deployed in order to setup enablers and to stimulate acceptance. "Linked Open Data" refers to one of these early steps, benefiting from an available technological space (RDF, HTTP). The paper proposes "Linked Open Models" as a possible additional step, whose aim is to enable users to ...

Severe data quality problems exist in most public health care systems and inconsistent data sets often occur. Consistency constraints can be used to define valid and invalid data. Existing solutions of such constraints like rule systems are often difficult to maintain, not human-readable, and of a bad quality like containing contradictory rules. With InDaQu we present an approach that allows do...

We developed and evaluated a multiplex PCR (m-PCR) for application in routine diagnostic laboratories to detect Campylobacter spp. in stool samples including C. concisus, C. jejuni, and C. coli. When this m-PCR was applied on spiked faecal samples, C. concisus, C. jejuni, and C. coli were specifically identified at 105 cells/gm of faeces. To compare the sensitivity of the m-PCR with conventiona...