RNA crystals typically diffract to much lower resolutions than protein crystals. This low-resolution diffraction results in unclear density maps, which cause considerable difficulties during the model-building process. These difficulties are exacerbated by the lack of computational tools for RNA modeling. Here, RCrane, a tool for the partially automated building of RNA into electron-density map...

Visualization of protein structures using stereoscopic systems is frequently needed by structural biologists working to understand a protein's structure-function relationships. Often several scientists are working as a team and need simultaneous interaction with each other and the graphics representations. Most existing molecular visualization tools support single-user tasks, which are not suit...

Collaborative researches of three-dimensional molecular modeling can be limited by different time zones and locations. A networked virtual environment can be utilized to overcome the problem caused by the temporal and spatial differences. However, traditional approaches did not sufficiently consider integration of different computing environments, which were characterized by types of applicatio...

Most dependable embedded real-time systems designed in the past have been specialized to meet the speciic requirements of the application domain for which they were targeted, leading to innexible and often hardware-intensive solutions that are costly to design and maintain. This paper is devoted to the description of Hades, a software infrastructure to develop and execute distributed dependable...

Avian vacuolar myelinopathy (AVM) was first recognized as a cause of bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) mortality in 1994 in Arkansas (USA) and has since caused over 90 bald eagle and numerous American coot (Fulica americana) mortalities in five southeastern states. The cause of AVM remains undetermined but is suspected to be a biotoxin. Naturally occurring AVM has been limited to wild water...

As citizen science platforms, such as iNaturalist, become more popular and data becomes available, they can be a useful tool for research purposes. In this paper we study the effects of time day on amount shorebird observations made by scientists. “Research grade” from iNaturalist was used, collected Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge in Palo Alto, California, United States. We focused follow...