New York State Department of Health

Brain–computer interfaces for communication and control

Detecting Subtle Sequence Signals: a Gibbs Sampling Strategy for Multiple Alignment

A wealth of protein and DNA sequence data is being generated by genome projects and other sequencing efforts. A crucial barrier to deciphering these sequences and understanding ...

The Molecular Biology of Coronaviruses

Gibbs motif sampling: Detection of bacterial outer membrane protein repeats

Abstract The detection and alignment of locally conserved regions (motifs) in multiple sequences can provide insight into protein structure, function, and evolution. A new Gibbs...

Clinical Versus Administrative Data Bases for CABG Surgery

This study compared the ability of a clinical and administrative data base in New York State to predict in-hospital mortality and to assess hospital performance for coronary art...

From Healthy Aging to Early Alzheimer's Disease: <i>In Vivo</i> Detection of Entorhinal Cortex Atrophy

A bstract : Using quantitative structural MRI protocols, we examined the effects of age on alterations in entorhinal cortex (EC) volume. The left EC was found to be smaller than...

Analyzing the Instrumental Use of Relations in the Context of Social Structure

Employing a variation of the Small World technique for tracing social relations in the context of a larger social structure, the instrumental uses of social relations are examin...

Cancer Incidence in New York State Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Patients

To identify cancers that occur at higher rates in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) patients, the cancer experience of New York State (NYS) AIDS patients aged 15-69 year...

Interference by Tris buffer in the estimation of protein by the Lowry procedure

Factors Affecting the Results of Serum Cholesterol Determinations: An Interlaboratory Evaluation

Abstract We present results of an interlaboratory survey of cholesterol assays in which methodology, standardization technique, type of standard, reagent source, and control ser...