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Ancient protein from pre-human teeth reveals genetic secrets of human evolutionary tree
Researchers have extracted 2 million-year-old protein remains from ancient pre-human teeth to reveal biological sex and ...
IEEE4d
Scaling of parallel multiple sequence alignment on the supercomputer JUQUEEN
Abstract: In this paper is proposed optimization, scaling, performance evaluation and profiling of parallel multiple sequence alignment based on ClustalW algorithm on the supercomputer BlueGene/Q, ...
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α-Amino Acids as Reducing and Capping Agents in Gold Nanoparticles Synthesis Using the Turkevich Method
The solution was brought to a boil while stirring magnetically (400 rpm), and then 3 mL of α-amino acid salt aqueous solution (20 mM) was added at once. The reaction was performed until the solution ...
Technology Networks10d
Small Genetic Variation Impacts Brain Connectivity
A study from the Institute for Basic Science discovered the role of mini-exon B in brain connectivity and function. This ...
eLife10d
Forecasting protein evolution by integrating birth-death population models with structurally constrained substitution models
This manuscript introduces a useful protein-stability-based fitness model for simulating protein evolution and unifying non-neutral models of molecular evolution with phylogenetic models. The model is ...
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Branched-Chain Amino Acids as Critical Switches in Health and Disease
Figure 1. Catabolic pathways of branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) and downstream signaling initiated by catabolites (for explanation, see BCAA Catabolism section). 4E-BP1 indicates eukaryotic ...
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Design and Analysis of 8-bit Smith Waterman based DNA Sequence Alignment Accelerator's Core on ASIC Design Flow
Abstract: This paper present the design and analysis of 8-bit Smith Waterman (SW) based DNA sequence alignment accelerator's core on ASIC design flow. The objective of the project is to construct and ...