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P Greif

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Mapping of Rym14Hb, a gene introgressed from Hordeum bulbosum and conferring resistance to BaMMV and BaYMV in barley.

Hordeum bulbosum represents the secondary gene pool of barley and constitutes a potential source of various disease resistances in barley breeding. Interspecific crosses of H. vulgare x H. bulbosum resulted in recombinant diploid-barley progeny with immunity to BaMMV after mechanical inoculation. Tests on fields contaminated with different viruses demonstrated that resistance was effective against all European viruses of the soil-borne virus complex (BaMMV, BaYMV-1, -2). Genetic analysis revealed that resistance was dominantly inherited. Marker analysis in a F5 mapping family was performed to map the introgression in the barley genome and to estimate its size after several rounds of recombination. RFLP anchor-marker alleles indicative of an H. bulbosum introgression were found to cover an interval 2.9 cM in length on chromosome 6HS. The soil-borne virus resistance locus harboured by this introgressed segment was designated Rym14(Hb). For marker-assisted selection of Rym14(Hb) carriers, a diagnostic codominant STS marker was derived from an AFLP fragment amplified from leaf cDNA of homozygous-resistant genotypes inoculated with BaMMV.

Chromosome Mapping↗

Balancing needs, efficiency, and functionality in the provision of modeling software: a perspective of the NIH WinSAAM Project.

The development of new software or the refinement of existing software for new operating environments each calls for judicious balancing. On the one hand, we strive for simplicity, predictability, and operational protection as it is well recognized that software with these attributes will attract an audience of satisfied users. But, on the other hand, these attributes do not conjure a sense of power, efficiency, or flexibility, and these other properties are also appreciated by users, albeit a somewhat different group of users. The goal is to achieve a blend which isolates critical functionality, flexible control, and user support while meeting the needs of the broadest collection of serious users. In this chapter, we discuss the issues impacting the migration of SAAM to the Windows environment, the NIH WinSAAM Project, and we outline the steps taken to ensure its feasibility. In addition, we describe a new paradigm for software development and use which ensures the durability of the software for modeling.

Computer Simulation↗

The maintenance, distribution and development of biomedical computer software: an exercise in software engineering.

The growing reliance of biomedical investigations on computer software in almost all facets of their work places considerable emphasis on the need for the integrated management of the software. In order to efficiently develop, distribute, and maintain the software, tools are required which not only automate these tasks but also, wherever possible, 'semi-intelligently', alert their user to irregular situation. We describe an assortment of such tools routinely used in the management of the SAAM/CONSAM biokinetic software and illustrate their application. Furthermore, using these techniques we have presented some comparative performances of numerical integrators and of computer processors.

Computers↗

Computer analysis and structure prediction of nucleic acids and proteins.

We have developed an integrated computer system for analysis of nucleic acid and protein sequences, which consists of sequence and structure databases, a relational database, and software for structural analysis. The system is potentially applicable to a number of problems in structural biology including predictive classification of the function and location of oncogene products.

Amino Acid Sequence↗