Writing a thesis involves complying with certain requirements and rules established by institutional guides. So, students have guidelines to follow when developing their first draft. Generally this draft presents deficiencies, which has to be polished with the help of the academic advisor to reach an acceptable document. However, this task is repeated every time a student prepares his thesis, b...

This draft CLASS (Collaboration in Language and Speech Science Technology) report discusses the market opportunities for natural interactive communication systems technologies. The vision of natural interactivity is presented and related to the idea of multimodal systems. The components of natural interactivity are presented. As natural interactive communication systems technologies are future ...

We present the draft genome of the cyanobacterium strain Synechococcus sp. GFB01, the first genome sequencing of this genus isolated from South America. This draft genome consists of 125 contigs with a total size of 2,339,812 bp. Automatic annotation identified several genes involved with heavy metal resistance and natural transformation.

Here, we report the draft genome sequence of Streptomyces sp. JV178, a strain originating from Connecticut (USA) garden soil. This strain produces the polycyclic tetramate macrolactam compounds clifednamides A and B. The draft genome contains 10.65 Mb, 9,045 predicted protein coding sequences, and several natural product biosynthetic loci.

Lactobacillus acidophilus is a natural inhabitant of mammalian gastrointestinal systems and is used in dairy and pharmaceutical products. Five draft genome sequences, covering 1,995,790 nucleotides (nt) on average, are divided into 19 to 34 scaffolds covering 1,995 to 2,053 genes. The draft genome sequences were compared to the sequence of the L. acidophilus NCFM dairy strain.