Bioinformatics software, shifting to mobility

Presentación en Escuela de Verano del trabajo en desarrollo para el proyecto Mr.Symbiomath IAPP project (Code: 324554)Mobile devices are pervading all the work environments with such swiftness that makes past decades of computerization appear lethargic. Even so, porting previous desktop applications is not always possible or of practical use, needing a whole reexamination of their user interface model. Software for Bioinformatics adds further issues: lack of standards in formats, mixed alternatives on the treatment of data, huge data-sizes, difficulty of output representation, which makes simpler interactive environment as are touch interfaces, struggle to reach a bare basic level of practical utility. Prove of that is near all the currently available Bioinformatics apps for mobile platforms, over 50, are either educative, or target only one simple action, typically a blast on a short local sequence. In spite of all of that, a careful design, based on continuous user testing, and sensible goals, is paying us more than acceptable results. To start with, we had real useful desktop applications, based on open workflows that could fundamentally be modeled easily as the user needed different treatment for their data. We took the essentials of this open perspective, as none of the currently available mobile software is worth its use except in rather particular conditions, and only the simplest processes are available. Our approach is more ambitious as it leaves open the process you can do to your data. You have hundreds of them at a single touch. The interface is continuously being fine tuned as more user testing adds real usability information.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech. This work has been partially supported by Mr.Symbiomath IAPP project (Code: 324554

New records and range extension of some mosses in tropical areas of Chile

A total of thirteen mosses are reported as new for Chile: Aloinella andina Delgad., Coscinodontella bryanii R.S. Williams, Didymodon acutus (Brid.) K. Saito, Erythrophyllopsis fuscula (Müll. Hal.) Hilp., Fissidens excurrentinervis R.S. Williams, Grimmia molesta J. Muñoz, Grimmia pseudoanodon Deguchi, Jaffueliobryum williamsii (Deguchi) Delgad., Leptopteriginandrum austroalpinum Müll. Hal., Pseudocrossidium elatum (R.S. Williams) Delgad., Rhexophyllum subnigrum (Mitt.) Hilp., Saitobryum lorentzii (Müll. Hal.) Ochyra, and Syntrichia fragilis (Taylor) Ochyra. In addition, Grimmia plagiopodia Hedw., which was previosly known from Southern Chile, is reported ca. 3500 km more to the north, near the Bolivian border

A consistent explanation of the Roper phenomenology

We study the electromagnetic transitions of the Roper N(1440) resonance. Our results, when combined with the previously obtained for the mass and the pionic strong decay widths of the Roper, show that within a non-relativistic constituent quark model scheme, a comprehensible understanding of the Roper phenomenology can be achieved. They also seem to support the view of the Roper as a radial excitation of the nucleon, though more experimental data are needed to reach a definitive conclusion.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figures (7 postscript files). Some referencess adde