简介:美国非营利组织GreenWave主管布伦·斯密斯描述未来的农业场景:人类的耕作地点从陆地转向海洋,用锚定在海床上的绳索饲养牡蛎,贻贝,蛤蜊和海藻。这一想法并非天方夜谭。随着陆地耕作的问题愈加突出——农业耕作带来的温室气体排放越来越严重——和海洋过度捕捞,人类需要开发新的食物来源。GreenWave的海藻农场提供了一种可行的方案:农场
简介:Circulargenomes,beingthelargestproportionofsequencedgenomes,playanimportantroleingenomeanalysis.However,traditional2Dcircularmaponlyprovidesanoverviewandannotationsofgenomebutdoesnotofferfeature-basedcomparison.Forremedyingtheseshortcomings,wedeveloped3DGenomeTuner,ahybridofcircularmapandcomparativemaptools.Itscapabilityofviewingcomparisonsbetweenmultiplecircularmapsina3Dspaceoffersgreatbenefitstothestudyofcomparativegenomics.Theprogramisfreelyavailable(underanLGPLlicence)athttp://sourceforge.net/projects/dgenometuner.