objective: cryptosporidiosis is a parasitic disease that is causing small protozoan genus cryptosporidum and transmission take place through fecal- oral by direct contact or indirectly through food or drink. the aim of this study was detection of anti-cryptosporidum parvum immunoglobulin igg, in newborn balb/c infected with c. parvum. materials and methods: oocysts of c. parvum were obtained f...

Blat and guanxi are terms describing personal networks in Russia and China respectively. They have existed and been practiced for centuries and remain highly relevant today. By employing a social network perspective, we analyze the architecture of blat and guanxi and some of the similarities between them. We also argue that personal networks in Russia and China are products of specific cultural...

Analyzing vertebrate genomes requires rapid mRNA/DNA and cross-species protein alignments. A new tool, BLAT, is more accurate and 500 times faster than popular existing tools for mRNA/DNA alignments and 50 times faster for protein alignments at sensitivity settings typically used when comparing vertebrate sequences. BLAT's speed stems from an index of all nonoverlapping K-mers in the genome. Th...

We investigated articulatory movements of native Japanese speakers’ productions of non-native consonant clusters, using the WAVE system (NDI Corp.). Four Japanese male speakers pronounced “blat”, “bnat”, “btat”, and “pnat” 10 times each in a carrier sentence. Tongue tip displacement from the first to the second consonant varied greatly among the speakers. An ANOVA with two factors, Speaker and ...

MOTIVATION Recently, a number of programs have been proposed for mapping short reads to a reference genome. Many of them are heavily optimized for short-read mapping and hence are very efficient for shorter queries, but that makes them inefficient or not applicable for reads longer than 200 bp. However, many sequencers are already generating longer reads and more are expected to follow. For lon...

Intron prediction is an important problem of the constantly updated genome annotation. Using two model plant (rice and Arabidopsis) genomes, we compared two well-known intron prediction tools: the Blast-Like Alignment Tool (BLAT) and Sim4cc. The results showed that each of the tools had its own advantages and disadvantages. BLAT predicted more than 99% introns of whole genomic introns with a sm...

Alignment to a genomic sequence is a common task in modern bioinformatics. By improving the methods used, significant amount of time and resources can be saved. We have developed a new genomic alignment search tool, called GAST, for sequences of at least 160 nt. GAST is many times faster than commonly used alignment tools BLAT and Mega BLAST. As the sizes of query sequences and the database inc...

Discovering the campus together: a mobile and computer-based learning experience Mar Pérez-Sanagustín, Gustavo Ramirez-Gonzalez, Davinia Hernández-Leo, Mario MuñozOrganero, Patricia Santos, Josep Blat and Carlos Delgado Kloos Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Roc Boronat 138 08018 Barcelona, SPAIN (e-mail: {mar.perez@, davinia.hernandez@, patricia.santos@, josep.blat@}upf.edu). Universidad Carlos III d...