Quite an entertaining story:
SCIgen at wikipedia
SCIgen tool
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Finally, just a useful resource if you need a shiny name for your brand-new 2.0-beta project: anagram server.

Cytoscape 2.5.1 supports proxies, including HTTP proxies, but there is no support for HTTP proxies requiring authentication/authorization. It’s easy to use Cytoscape in the authentication-requiring proxy scenario; below is one possible method.

Note, that exactly the same method can be used to allow any software, which supports proxies but not proxies with authentication, to be able to access the internet.
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Googling for “practical artificial intelligence” gives only two (somewhat) relevant links:

• Open Content Free Web Books (on practical AI programming)
• Artificial Intelligence Lab (with some practical applications)

Looks like it isn’t widely acknowledged, that AI is, in fact, quite widely used. Though primarily in OCR, TTS, STT :), and NLP (including machine translation).

Full Featured Multiple Sequence Alignment Editor, Analyser and Shading Utility for Windows.

Small and convenient. Can do sequence alignments (I recommend to limit the length to 2kb for alignments).

Latest version I found: updated July, 2001, GeneDoc version # 2.6.02.

Drawback: windows only (but has GNU-licence sources).

I added a new video to my Conspiracy theory in gallery.

I am an advocate of the official position: that is, HIV causes AIDS. In the movie description, I put my comments which dis-approve the point set and mentioned in that movie. I would strongly recommend that you stick to the official position in everything that is related to your health!

And now, with all the warnings, you may want to see it (326 MiB):
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I’m planning to reconstruct (based on literature and some original research) a specific cellular regulatory network. For this I decided to use some specialized biological modelling software. The requirements I had were pretty simple:

• must have SBML support. SBML appears de-facto standard for biological model notation;
• must be fairly frequently updated;
• should be feature-packed and easy to use. However, this requirement can only be checked after some use, and I was pre-selecting, not reviewing.

Software put into the title of the post was found to be the most mature and interesting from the usage perspective. However, there are more than those mentioned software tools reviewed. Reviews are based primarily on the information from official websites and documentation; some tools (like VirtualCell) are reviewed somewhat more thoroughly.
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Nonanticipatory (system or predictor) is a (system or predictor) where the output y(t) at some specific instant t₀ only depends on the input x(t) for values of t less than or equal to t₀. Therefore these kinds of (systems or predictors) have outputs and internal states that depend only on the current and previous input values.

In simpler words, nonanticipatory systems can “take into account” only past and present, and cannot base their behaviour/decisions on future expectations.

Nonanticipatory systems are also known as causal systems.