Search Results for "environmental engineering"

Physiologically based toxicokinetic (PBTK) modeling offers great promise in environmental risk assessment, potentially speeding up dose-response studies while minimizing animal testing. Some limitations exist in the PBTK field, such as difficulty of model development and a lack of application specific software tools to help modelers. Some parameters used in PBTK models, such as tissue weights, are easily measure. Other parameters can be determined through in-vitro experiments or through...

Niche Analyst (NicheA) was developed based on the BAM framework which allows users to create virtual spaces and virtual species, and to analyze ecological niches in both multivariate environmental and geographic spaces, linking views of the niche in the two spaces. The unique functionality in NicheA, not available in other software programs, is estimating Grinnellian niches of species based on environmental variables and occurrence records, but with a clear focus on fundamental ecological...

Background: Multiplex PCR, defined as the simultaneous amplification of multiple regions of a DNA template using more than one primer set (comprising a forward primer and a reverse primer) in one tube, has been widely used in clinical and environmental microbiology studies. However, primer design for multiplex PCR is still a challenging problem and several factors need to be considered. These problems include mis-priming due to nonspecific binding to non-target DNA templates, primer...

The aim of this project is to create an automated pipeline for taxonomic assignment of DNA sequences obtained from environmental samples. We develop a series of python scripts to process the raw sequence data obtained from benthic environmental samples and to taxonomical assignment of these sequences and finally to integrate all data in a relational database.

A similarity-free approach to compare the diversity of environmental viral communities