A strong promoter of the transition to flowering in Arabidopsis is encoded by FCA. FCA has been cloned and shown to encode a protein containing two RNA-binding domains and a WW protein interaction domain. This suggests that FCA functions in the posttranscriptional regulation of transcripts involved in the flowering process. The FCA transcript is alternatively spliced with only one form encoding...

The timing of the transition to flowering is critical for reproductive success in plants. Arabidopsis FCA encodes an RNA-binding protein that promotes flowering. FCA expression is regulated through alternative processing of its pre-mRNA. We demonstrate here that FCA negatively regulates its own expression by ultimately promoting cleavage and polyadenylation within intron 3. This causes the prod...

This paper proposes a tool that converts non-FCA format data files into an FCA format, thereby making a wide range of public data sets and data produced by non-FCA tools interoperable with FCA tools. This will also offer the power of FCA to a wider community of data analysts. A repository of converted data is also proposed, as a consistent resource of public data for analysis and for the testin...

Among many other knowledge representations formalisms, Ontologies and Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) aim at modeling ‘concepts’. We discuss how these two formalisms may complement another from an application point of view. In particular, we will see how FCA can be used to support Ontology Engineering, and how ontologies can be exploited in FCA applications. The interplay of FCA and ontologies is...

The nuclear RNA binding protein, FCA, promotes Arabidopsis reproductive development. FCA contains a WW protein interaction domain that is essential for FCA function. We have identified FY as a protein partner for this domain. FY belongs to a highly conserved group of eukaryotic proteins represented in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by the RNA 3' end-processing factor, Pfs2p. FY regulates RNA 3' end p...

This paper presents FcaStone a software for FCA file format conversion and interoperability. The paper both describes the features of FcaStone and discusses FCA interoperability issues (such as the specific difficulties encountered when connecting FCA tools to other tools). The paper ends with a call to the FCA community to develop some sort of standard FCA Interchange Format, which could be us...

Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) increase osteoporotic fracture risk presumably via hypochlorhydria and consequent reduced fractional calcium absorption (FCA). Existing studies provide conflicting information regarding the direct effects of PPIs on FCA. We evaluated the effect of PPI therapy on FCA. We recruited women at least 5 years past menopause who were not taking acid suppressants. Participa...

The Fixed Channel Assignment (FCA) problem is of major importance in the design of cellular mobile radio networks, and belongs to the class of NP-complete optimisation problems. The known exact solutions to FCA problems are strictly limited by the size of the problem to be solved. In this paper, a new powerful solution approach to the FCA problem is proposed. The underlying principle of the pro...

This is the first part of a large survey paper in which we analyze recent literature on Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) and some closely related disciplines using FCA. We collected 1072 papers published between 2003-2011 mentioning terms related to Formal Concept Analysis in the title, abstract and keywords. We developed a knowledge browsing environment to support our literature analysis process....

We review previous work using Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) to build Information Retrieval (IR) applications seeking a wider adoption of the FCA paradigm in IR. We conclude that although a number of systems have been built with such paradigm (FCA in IR), the most effective contribution would be to help establish IR on firmer grounds (FCA for IR). Since such an approach is only incipient, we con...