Range of motion assessment of the shoulder and elbow joints using a motion sensing input device: a pilot study.

Background: Motion sensing input devices could provide a practical and low-cost alternative method for repeated range of motion measurements. This study aimed to assess the reliability, accuracy and time requirements of a motion sensing input device (Microsoft Kinect) for ROM measurements comparing it with goniometer based measurements and subjective estimation.

Material And Methods: Full ROM was measured in 14 shoulder and elbow joints using the different methods.

BioGranat-IG: a network analysis tool to suggest mechanisms of genetic heterogeneity from exome-sequencing data.

Motivation: Recent exome-sequencing studies have successfully identified disease-causing sequence variants for several rare monogenic diseases by examining variants common to a group of patients. However, the current data analysis strategies are only insufficiently able to deal with confounding factors such as genetic heterogeneity, incomplete penetrance, individuals lacking data and involvement of several genes.

Results: We introduce BioGranat-IG, an analysis strategy that incorporates the information contained in biological networks to the analysis of exome-sequencing data.

Genometa--a fast and accurate classifier for short metagenomic shotgun reads.

Unlabelled: Metagenomic studies use high-throughput sequence data to investigate microbial communities in situ. However, considerable challenges remain in the analysis of these data, particularly with regard to speed and reliable analysis of microbial species as opposed to higher level taxa such as phyla. We here present Genometa, a computationally undemanding graphical user interface program that enables identification of bacterial species and gene content from datasets generated by inexpensive high-throughput short read sequencing technologies.

Critical properties of the synchronization transition in space-time chaos.

We study two coupled spatially extended dynamical systems which exhibit space-time chaos. The transition to the synchronized state is treated as a nonequilibrium phase transition, where the average synchronization error is the order parameter. The transition in one-dimensional systems is found to be generically in the universality class of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation with a growth-limiting term ("bounded KPZ").