Archive for March, 2006
Euclid Discoveries Shatters Bandwidth Barrier Using Object-based Video Compression
0 Comments Published by Orhan March 30th, 2006 in General Site, Technology.When I was doing my PhD I remember listening to a seminar by some people from Washington State University talking about object based video compression tied with multiscale-multiresolution behaviour. They were trying to identify fast moving objects and model them separately then the static backgrounds for example. That way one can compress the video drastically [...]
For years I wished there was a software that would "contain" software that I install just to test, not to keep on my primary machine (unless the software was super useful). Sometimes there is need to install a software that conflicts with others or leaves too much dirt behind when uninstalled, corrupting the registry and [...]
Virtual Virus is First Simulation of an Entire Life Form
0 Comments Published by Orhan March 28th, 2006 in Bioinformatics, Technology.Using abinitio type of calculations scientist simulated a virus at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The experiment lasted only 50 nanoseconds (real time, not computation time) because of enourmous computational load.More on this story…
“Accelerated Evolution” Converts RNA Enzyme to DNA Enzyme In Vitro
0 Comments Published by Orhan March 28th, 2006 in Bioinformatics.Interesting research used accelarated evolution to convert an RNA enzyme into a DNA enzyme. This opens a window into the past on how life might have evolved from simple to complex systems.
http://www.scripps.edu/newsandviews/e_20060327/evo.html
Interesting research finds useful groups in so called junk DNA. I am interested to see how they identified the regions and if any motif search algorithm could be of any use. Perhaps these zones share certain properties that are perhaps not as easy as coding zones but still detectable. I am sure the noncoding zone [...]
Finally I had time to create my Openwetware page. The wiki site is hosted at MIT and is used to share and host knowledge and information on Bioinformatics type of research. It is a nice way of collecting information, protocols and resources under the same hood. The wiki tags allow one to write structured text [...]
This is an interesting site comparing various sorting algorithms graphically. Worth checking to understand one semester worth of complexity discussions.
http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~morin/misc/sortalg/