Erratum: Corrigendum: Sequence and comparative analysis of the chicken genome provide unique perspectives on vertebrate evolution

International Chicken Genome Sequencing Consortium. The Original Article was published on 09 December 2004. Nature432, 695–716 (2004). In Table 5 of this Article, the last four values listed in the ‘Copy number’ column were incorrect. These should be: LTR elements, 30,000; DNA transposons, 20,000; simple repeats, 140,000; and satellites, 4,000. These errors do not affect any of the conclusions in our paper. Additional information. The online version of the original article can be found at 10.1038/nature0315

A Distributed Pool Architecture for Highly Constrained Optimization Problems in Complex Systems Design

Optimal design of complex engineering systems is challenging because numerous design variables and constraints are present. Dynamic changes in design requirements and lack of complete knowledge of subsystem requirements add to the complexity. We propose an enhanced distributed pool architecture to aid distributed solving of design optimization problems. The approach not only saves solution time but is also resilient against failures of some processors. It is best suited to handle highly constrained design problems, with dynamically changing constraints, where finding even a feasible solution (FS) is challenging. In our work, this task is distributed among many processors. Constraints can be easily added or removed without having to restart the solution process. We demonstrate the efficacy of our method in terms of computational savings and resistance to partial failures of some processors, using two mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP)-class mechanical design optimization problems