Publication Date: 2008 Dec 1 PMID: 19046431br/Authors: Oscamou, M. - McDonald, D. - Yap, V. B. - Huttley, G. A. - Lladser, M. E. - Knight, R.br/Journal: BMC Bioinformaticsbr/br/ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: The nucleotide substitution rate matrix is a key parameter of molecular evolution. Several methods for inferring this parameter have been proposed, with different mathematical bases. These methods include counting sequence differences and taking the log of the resulting probability matrices, methods based on Markov triples, and maximum likelihood methods that infer the substitution probabilities that lead to the most likely model of evolution. However, the speed and accuracy of these methods has not been compared. RESULTS: Different methods differ in performance by orders of magnitude (ranging from 1 ms to 10 s per matrix), but differences in accuracy of rate matrix reconstruction appear to be relatively small. Encouragingly, relatively simple and fast methods can provide results at least as accurate as far more complex and computationally intensive methods, especially when the sequences to be compared are relatively short. CONCLUSIONS: Based on the conditions tested, we recommend the use of method of Gojobori et al. (1982) for long sequences (300 nucleotides), and the method of Goldman et al. (1996) for shorter sequences (300 nucleotides). The method of Barry and Hartigan (1987) can provide somewhat more accuracy, measured as the Euclidean distance between the true and inferred matrices, on long sequences (2000 nucleotides) at the expense of substantially longer computation time. The availability of methods that are both fast and accurate will allow us to gain a global picture of change in the nucleotide substitution rate matrix on a genomewide scale across the tree of life.br/br/post to: a href = http://www.citeulike.org/posturl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Fcmd%3DRetrieve%26db%3DPubMed%26dopt%3DAbstract%26list_uids%3D19046431title=Entrez+PubmedCiteULike/a

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The Evolution Control Committee has been doing live mashup performances for many years and recently upgraded their hardware. Inspired by [Johnny Lee]’s Wiimote whiteboard, they built a rear projection display they could use during performances. It displays a dense collection of samples in Ableton Live. On each of the performer’s hands is an IR LED mounted to a thimble. By touching the thumb to the forefinger, the LED turns on. Two Wiimotes watch for these IR flashes to trigger mouse clicks. [TradeMark G] found the Ableton display too complex to navigate quickly and accurately with a mouse; this new display make things much easier and enjoyable.

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The Evolution Control Committee has developed a new interface for music software using 2 Wii remotes and a projector. Input is controlled via infrared LED thimble-gloves against a rear-projection screen. Certainly a speedier way to trigger the massive amount of Ableton Live loops seen in the above video. - Based off of Johnny Chung Lee's whiteboard, we assembled a four-foot rear-projected faux touchscreen. It's perfect for our Wheel Of Mashup shows, which depend on an overloaded setup of Ableton Live. - Video Mashup Screen Demo

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Publié un poil plus tôt que d'habitude, voici le top software Media Create de la semaine du 24 au 30 novembre 2008. L'approche des fêtes de fin d'année commence à se faire ressentir, en effet les ventes cette semaine atteignent des scores assez élevés. Et ce n'est pas Layton 3 qui s'en plaindra puisqu'il réalise un joli carton en prenant la pole position du classement. L'autre grosse entrée de la semaine est Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 sur PlayStation 3 s'emparant de la seconde place du top. Même si son lancement n'a pas la même pénétration sur le sol nippon que ses grand frères sur PlayStation 2, la tendance a quand même le mérite d'être clair, les amateurs du jeu de foot de Konami commencent à se tourner vers les machines HD. Enfin à la troisième place on retrouve le sauveur des fêtes de Noël de Nintendo, Animal Crossing : Let's Go to the City, qui doit se sentir bien seul après la déroute de Wii Music. Dans la suite du classement on assiste à un bombardement de nouveautés PSP dont le fameux Kenka Banchou 3, un GTA-like au pays des yakuzas, dont les deux premiers épisodes sur PlayStation 2 n'ont jamais voulu quitté le sol nippon. Enfin, les piliers de comptoirs de la DS : Rhythm Heaven et Pokémon Platine ne sont pas très loin en occupant respectivement la 12ème et 13ème place du classement.

img class=face src=http://planet.ubuntu.com/heads/jono.png alt= pWhen I was a kid, I owned a a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_GenesisSega Megadrive/a (Sega Genesis for my American friends). I spent hours on that thing. Sonic The Hedgehog. Streets Of Rage. Desert Strike. Toejam And Earl. I loved it./p pOne game that was released was a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_SandiegoWhere In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?/a Back then it was marketed as emedutainment/em: essentially a sneaky way for parents to infiltrate their kid#8217;s leisure time with learning under the premise of it being #8220;fun#8221;. Of course, kids are smarter than parents give them credit for. Kids were wise to this and often avoided games like that like the plague. The mind of a 12 year-old concluded that enough time is spent in front of teachers, workbooks and exams without it invading precious Sega time. I was one such kid. I emhated/em the idea of edutainment. I didnt want to learn with my Megadrive, I wanted to shoot things with very large, very loud, deeply pixelated guns./p pThings change when you grow up (yes, I have grown up, smart arses). I now love learning. I love reading. I spend hours drowning in Wikipedia and exploring our world, our history and our patchwork of cultures. I love learning about people#8217;s experiences, perspectives and attitudes. I no longer have the 12 year-old mentality that learning is for school time. Learning really is genuinely emfun/em./p pNaturally, there are some subjects I like to learn about in more detail. Community (zing!). Computers. Free Software. Free Culture. Music. There are however some subjects that I develop a curiosity about and feel an urge to investigate. These subjects are not part of my daily interests and hobbies, but are temporary avenues of curiosity./p pOne recent example for me is emHistorical Jesus/em. A few days ago I read everything Wikipedia had to offer about about the subject. This was triggered originally by a history TV show which in turn inspired me to buy a book about significant events in human history. In this book I read about Jesus#8217;s Crucifixion and decided to further refresh my knowledge of the subject by hitting up Wikipedia. In this example we see two distinctive concepts: emPassive Education/em and emContent Aggregation and Linking/em:/p ul liemPassive Education/em - in my example of Historical Jesus, my primary focus was gathering the facts and the story. I was happy for this subject#8217;s learning to be passive. I was happy to merely consume the content and not interact with it much more than selecting what to learn./li liemContent Aggregation and Linking/em - learning has links and connections. I first watched a show about history. This intrigued me to buy the book on historical events. A section in that book inspired me to access specific content on Wikipedia. The thread that connected these different resources together was the subject of Historical Jesus and I aggregated the different pieces of knowledge together in my brain. My current knowledge of Historical Jesus draws from these different resources./li /ul pWhen we learn about our primary interests, learning is different. Our desire is often for emActive Learning/em. We not only want to know the subject, but we want to immerse ourselves in the execution and debate of it too. Much of this is not only collating general knowledge, as I did with Historical Jesus, but learning about more localised information too. When I learn about music, I want to know about local bands. I want to know when my favourite bands are coming to my area. I want to hear about music groups, gigs, and conventions near to me. I want to know about special offers in local music stores. In a nutshell, I don#8217;t just want to consume, I want to emparticipate/em./p pIn recent years, computers and the Internet have made both Active and Passive Learning incredibly accessible. The web has bolstered passive learning resources, and active learning has been thrusted towards us with online communities, social networking, community groups and discussion boards. No matter what you want to know about, the Internet can help you in both Passive and Active ways/p pBut lets get back to emWhere In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?/em. Although I could not stand the concept of emedutainment/em at the time, what that game emdid/em do that intrigues me is that it delivered education to people automatically. The education was emassociative/em: topics and concepts were delivered to you as you played the game./p pI find this really interesting. I find the concept of linking and associating different types of education and resources fascinating. This also holds huge opportunity for the desktop./p pA great example is a href=http://banshee-project.org/Banshee/a. For those who have been living under a rock for the last three years, Banshee is a media player. I have it open all day, delivering a fresh dose of metal to me all day long. Banshee not only plays music, but it brings many diverse music related activities together under the same roof: digital music, Internet radio, CD playing and ripping, meta-data editing etc. The Banshee bods have done a great job./p pBut the most interesting feature to me is its a href=http://www.last.fm/Last.fm/a integration. When I listen to a song (such as Hammerfall right now). The artist and track is posted to a href=http://www.last.fm/user/jonobaconmy Last.fm account/a. This in itself is not all that exciting. But what Banshee does that emis/em exciting is look up the artist of my current playing song and use Last.fm to make recommendations. It delivers those recommendations to me inside the application. That is emwicked cool/em. Sure, I could go and look up these recommendations on the Last.fm website, but I am unlikely to do that. Banshee does the work for me. The result is that this simple feature has helped me discover literally hundreds of new bands. Banshee linked and aggregated the data, and this resulted in better learning for this important part of my interests./p pYesterday I installed the a href=http://getsongbird.com/new 1.0.0 release of Songbird/a. Songbird is an iTunes like Open Source media player that holds some stunning promise. They have used Mozilla technologies and GStreamer to build a cross-platform media player. I know some of the guys who work on Songbird and wanted to give it a try: I had last used an early snapshot. While I don#8217;t want to turn this into a review (if you folks want a review, let me know and I will write one up), it ships with some interesting features that build on some of the concepts seen in Banshee. Oh, and Amarok folks, I know your media player has probably been doing all of this for years, so hold fire. img src=http://www.jonobacon.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif alt=:) class=wp-smiley / /p pIn Songbird, for the artist of the song I am currently listening to, Songbird will go and look up data from a number of resources and bring it together. It grabs a summary blurb, discography, members, tags and links of the artist from Last.fm, a photo slideshow from Flickr, videos from YouTube, and News from Google News. Again, I could find this information separately without ever installing Songbird, but Songbird not only aggregated this content, but it linked it to an opportunity of curiosity (what I am listening to). I might never typically go and look for more details about emHammerfall/em, but when I am listening to it, it often triggers my interest. Songbird satisfies that curiosity before I even know I have it./p pAnother great feature of Songbird that builds on emactive learning/em is that it uses a href=http://www.songkick.com/Songkick/a to look up all of the artists in my playlist to see if there are concerts and shows in my area. With this feature I now have a list of all the up and coming shows for the artists I like (including all those obscure metal bands). This provides me with direct access to the local community and opportunities. That is one stunningly helpful and outrageously cool feature. My media player is stopping being a place to merely consume music, and instead becoming a place to aggregate everything these is about the music I listen to and the artists that make it./p pThis is an even more valuable proposition for a desktop. Just think of the range of types of media we consume and the applications that we use to consume them. Now mix this with the range of online sources of education and content. It could be really interesting to pull together these threads into one cohesive experience. I love that Totem in Ubuntu can stream BBC content to me, but I would love it to show me some information and products about that content too. I would love Evolution to provide me with an ability to easily look up terms, acronyms and products in my emails with a single click. When I look at photos in F-Spot I would love to see pricing for prints and frames to put my pictures in./p pIt would also be fascinating to identify the work-flow of education in a computer. From sourcing content in Wikipedia, how does it flow through text editors, communications tools, online services and publishing mediums? How can we identify these links in the chain and optimise them?/p pBig subject. I know. But huge potential./p

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img src=http://prosper.inist.fr/IMG/arton595.jpg alt= align='right' width=56 height=43 style='border-width: 0px;' class='spip_logos' /a href=http://www.swets.com/ class=spip_outSwets Information Services/a vient de publier son rapport prévisionnel des variations des prix des périodiques. Le rapport montre que l'augmentation moyenne des tarifs d'abonnement est de 6,27% pour les tarifs exprimés dans la devise locale de l'abonné. Ce calcul est basé sur les tarifs des abonnements 2009, communiqués par les éditeurs, pour 71 872 titres. Les tableaux donnent des indications à la fois par zone géographique et monétaire, et par discipline scientifique.

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/16540?ns=guardianpageName=Science%3A+Giant+flying+reptile+%E2%80%93+terror+of+Cretaceous+skiesch=Sciencec3=guardian.co.ukc4=Science%2CFossils+%28Science%29%2CArchaeology%2CZoology%2CEvolution+%28Science%29c5=Environment+Conservation%2CNot+commercially+usefulc6=James+Randersonc7=2008_12_03c8=1128129c9=articlec10=GUc11=Sciencec12=Fossilsc13=c14=h2=GU%2FScience%2FFossils" width="1" height="1" //divpSoaring overhead in the Cretaceous skies with taut leathery wings longer than a family car, they would have made an unnerving sight. Now scientists, a href="http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121526827/abstract"analysing a fossil/a that had lain for years after its discovery in a German museum, have for the first time glimpsed one of the most imposing of the prehistoric flyers./ppemLacusovagus magnificens/em, the magnificent lake wanderer, is the largest prehistoric flying reptile without teeth ever to have been found. The name comes from its preservation in lake sediments of the Araripe basin in north-east Brazil, a site well known for its excellently preserved fossils./pp"Some of the previous examples we have from this family in China are just 60cm long – as big as the skull of the new species," said Mark Witton a postgraduate student in the school of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Portsmouth, "Put simply, it dwarfs any chaoyangopterid we've seen before by miles." The chaoyangopterids are a family of toothless pterosaurs and the fossil is the first of the family to be found in Brazil. /pp"The discovery of something like this in Brazil – so far away from its closest relatives in China – demonstrates how little we actually know about the distribution and evolutionary history of this fascinating group of creatures," Witton said./ppInterpreting the fossil was difficult because of its unusual preservation. "Usually fossils like this are found lying on their sides but this one was lying on the roof of its mouth and had been rather squashed, which made even figuring out whether it had teeth difficult," said Witton. From the skull he was able to extrapolate that the beast would have had a wingspan of around five metres and stood more than a metre tall at the shoulder. It also had a wide mouth suggesting that it was able to tackle large prey. "The remains are very fragmentary, however, so we need more specimens before we can draw any conclusions," Witton said./ppAlthough large, emLacusovagus/em was much smaller than some of the giant toothed flying reptiles. emQuetzalcoatlus/em, named after the Aztec winged serpent god, was the size of a spitfire with a wingspan of 11 to 12 metres. It had a massively elongated fourth digit on its "hands" and fibres in the wing membrane for added support. Another species that may have been even bigger is ema href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/w55xf7hvvmwp6t5c/"Hatzegopteryx thambema/a/em, which is known from a single specimen discovered in Romania. Its bone structure resembles expanded polystyrene – presumably for extra lightness to allow flight./ppThe a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/feb/12/1"smallest pterosaur/a ever discovered is emNemicolopterus crypticus/em, meaning "hidden flying forest dweller". Discovered in north-east China it was the size of a blackbird with a wingspan of just 25cm./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/fossils"Fossils/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/archaeology"Archaeology/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/zoology"Zoology/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/evolution"Evolution/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/PwD-nOdfavexelXjDjPlISAOYaM/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/PwD-nOdfavexelXjDjPlISAOYaM/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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Some of the best designs that man has conjured up through the ages have been inspired by evolution, and it is no shame in taking a cue from what evolution has perfected over a course of millions of years. Researchers from MIT have created their latest robotic marvel in the form of “RoboClam,” and this little robot akin to a cigarette lighter buries itself deep in the sea bed and can act as an electronic anchor for underwater submarines. The technology behind the design and execution came from razor clams, tiny and slender sea creatures that bury themselves deep into the ocean’s sandy bed when in danger.
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Japan’s second largest wireless carrier, KDDI, has taken the plunge into the Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard, by building an LTE overlay on top of its existing CDMA network. KDDI is using equipment from Nortel and Hitachi for the fourth-generation wireless network, which will be operating by 2010. For those of you in the U.S. eager to see what the 4G future holds, Verizon is expected to start deploying LTE in 2010 as well. Vendors such as Ericsson expect LTE to be widely deployed in 2012. As a footnote, KDDI also has a WiMAX network deployed in parts of Japan that it has said it plans to begin operating next year. If the two technologies are ever to merge, perhaps we can watch that unfold in Japan.

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It was inevitable that someone would eventually make a documentary about the folks who upload videos to YouTube, and it's kinda fitting that we get to watch a trailer for said doc on, well, YouTube. Directed by Chuck Potter, I Want My Three Minutes Back "examines the phenomenon of online video through the stories of YouTube video creators." I'm not very hip to the whole YouTube scene (then again, I'm not very hip to any scene), so the following names might not mean much to me, but they may mean a whole lot to you. Among the folks who participated in the doc are Tay Zonday (Chocolate Rain), Judson Laipply (Evolution of Dance), Michael Buckley (What The Buck Show), Phillip DeFranco (sxePhil), Christine Gambito (Happy Slip), Terry Roth (Zipster), Katie Graham (K80Blog), Paul Robinette (Renetto) and Travis and Jonathan (Jackie and Dunlap of Red State Update).

I Want My Three Minutes Back is currently attempting the film festival route, and depending on the final product this is totally something I could see premiering at SXSW. Check out the trailer below, and answer this: You may waste time watching these YouTube videos, but are you really interested in the people who created them?



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