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Top Casino Companies To Watch For 2014
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Top Casino Companies To Watch For 2014: Scientific Games Corp (SGMS)
Scientific Games Corporation (Scientific Games), incorporated on July 2, 1984, is a global supplier of solutions to lottery and gaming organizations worldwide. The Company's products and services include instant lottery games, lottery gaming systems, terminals and services, and Internet applications, as well as server-based interactive gaming machines and associated gaming control systems. The Company reports its operations in three segments: Printed Products Group, Lottery Systems Group and Diversified Gaming Group. Printed Products Group is a provider of instant lottery tickets in the world. The Company's Lottery Systems Group is a provider of customized computer software, software support, equipment and data communication services to lotteries. Its Diversified Gaming Group provides services and systems to private and public operators in the wide area gaming industry, including server-based gaming machines and sports betting systems and services. On September 23, 201 1, the Company acquired Barcrest Group Limited. During 2011, the Company launched MDI Interactive, a content services powerhouse dedicated to delivering gaming solutions for the Internet, mobile and all digital things. In October 2013, the Company announced that it has completed the acquisition of WMS Industries Inc.
Printed Products segment is primarily consists of instant ticket lottery business. The Company generates revenue from the manufacturing and sale of instant tickets, as well as the provision of value-added services, such as game design, sales and marketing support, specialty games and promotions, inventory management and warehousing and fulfillment services. It also provides lotteries with cooperative service programs (CSPs), to help them manage and support their operations. The Company also provides licensed games, promotional entertainment and Internet-based services to the lottery industry. It operates six instant ti cket printing facilities across five continents.
The Company provides lotteries with access to some entertainment brands on lottery products through its subsidiary MDI Entertainment LLC (MDI). The Company's licensed entertainment brands include Harley-Davidson, Major League Baseball, Monopoly, National Basketball Association, The Price is Right, Wheel-of-Fortune and World Poker Tour. It also provides branded merchandise prizes, advertising, promotional support, turnkey drawing management services and prize fulfillment programs. In addition, it offers lotteries a Web-based platform called Properties Plus, which features players clubs, reward programs, second chance promotional websites, interactive games and, subject to applicable law, a subscription system that enables players to purchase lottery games securely over the Internet. The Company owns 20% interests in LNS ad Northstar, and 49% in CSG.
Lottery Systems
The Company is a provider of customized computer software, software support, eq uipment and data communication services to lotteries. In the United States, the Company typically provides the necessary equipment, software and maintenance services pursuant to long-term facilities. Internationally, it typically sells terminals and/or computer software to lottery authorities and may provide ongoing fee-based systems and software support services. The Company's lottery systems business includes the supply of transaction-processing software, draw lottery games, keno, point-of-sale terminals, central site computers and communication platforms as well as ongoing operational support and maintenance services. The Company is the instant ticket validation network provider to the China Sports Lottery.
The Company has lottery systems operating in Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Latvia, Mexico, Norway, the Philippines, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. In addition, it provides video lottery central monitoring , and control systems and networks primarily to lotteries an! d gaming ! regulators. It also provides software, hardware and support for sports wagering systems. The Company has 50% interest in Guard Libang, a provider of instant ticket activation and validation and inventory management systems and services.
The Company is a provider of server-based gaming machines and systems and other products and services to operators in the gaming industry. The Company's Gaming segment includes The Global Draw Limited (Global Draw), a supplier of server-based gaming machines and systems, and game content primarily to bookmakers that operate licensed betting offices (LBOs) in the United Kingdom, and to gaming operators outside the United Kingdom. The Gaming segment also includes Barcrest Group Limited (Barcrest) and Games Media Limited (Games Media), suppliers of gaming machines, systems and game content to pubs, bingo halls and arcades in the United Kingdom and continental Europe.
The Company provides its Gami ng customers with gaming machines, remote management of game content and management information, central computer systems, secure data communication and field support services. It develops its own game content, and supplements its offering with content from third parties. As of December 31, 2011, the Company installed approximately 23,100 LBO gaming machines in the United Kingdom, which included approximately 8,000 LBO gaming. As of December 31, 2011, it had an installed base of approximately 6,100 gaming machines in its United Kingdom pub, bingo hall and arcade business, and installed approximately 6,500 gaming machines outside of the United Kingdom. During 2011, the Company owned a 50% interest in Sciplay, a joint venture with Playtech Services (Cyprus) Limited. It also owns 29.4% interests in RCN, and 20% in Sportech.
The Compnay competes with Pollard Banknote Limited, GTECH, BI Worldwide Ltd., Alchemy3, LLC, ePrize, LLC, GTECH, Pollard, Intralot Technologie s, Inc., International Lottery and Totalizator Systems, Inc.! , Inspire! d Gaming Group Limited, Danoptra Ltd, Sceptre Leisure plc, Games Warehouse Limited, International Game Technology, Lottomatica, Bally Technologies, Inc., Inspired, Aristocrat Leisure Ltd, Novomatic AG, Multimedia Games, Inc., WMS Industries Inc., Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc., Amaya Gaming Group, Inc., Cryptologic Ltd., IGT, Microgaming Software Systems Ltd., Net Entertainment NE AB, NYX Gaming Group, OpenBet Technology Ltd. and Playtech Limited.
What: Shares of Scientific Games (NASDAQ: SGMS ) jumped 10% in late trading today after signing an important customer.
So what: The company announced that it has signed a contract extension to provide lottery gaming and instant ticket services for the Oklahoma Lottery. This was actually disclosed earlier this year, but investors bid up shares leading up to the announcement and nearly five times the three-month average volume of shares traded hands today.
[By Stock Maelstrom]
We are likely approaching the last time I will be reporting on WMS Industries (WMS), the former Williams Electronics. It has agreed to be acquired by Scientific Games (SGMS) for $26 per share, plus the assumption of WMS' modest debt. The deal is scheduled to close by the end of this year. On its own, WMS is having a dismal fiscal year, which ends June 30. For this year, the company, no doubt with distracted management, earnings are likely to end at about $0.90 per share, compared with fiscal 2012's $1.31 per share. Helping drive earnings lower are additional measures the company is taking to drive up revenues, which remain well below last decade's peak. WMS' stock has flat lined the past few months at within three percent of the $26 price. There is virtually no upside, though there is downside if the deal collapses. I see no reason to get invested in WMS.
Top Casino Companies To Watch For 2014: Boyd Gaming Corporation(BYD)
Boyd Gaming Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a multi-jurisdictional gaming company in the United States. As of December 31, 2011, the company owned and operated 1,042,787 square feet of casino space, containing approximately 25,973 slot machines, 655 table games, and 11,418 hotel rooms. It also owned and operated 16 gaming entertainment properties located in Nevada, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Indiana, and New Jersey. In addition, the company owns and operates a pari-mutuel jai-alai facility located in Dania Beach, Florida, as well as a travel agency in Hawaii. Further, it holds a 50% controlling interest in the limited liability company that operates Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Boyd Gaming Corporation was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Among the companies with shares expected to actively trade in Tuesday's session are American Eagle Outfitters Inc.(AEO), Boyd Gaming Corp.(BYD) and Dick's Sporting Goods Inc.(DKS)
Shares of Boyd Gaming Corp. (BYD) rose 8% to $12.75 on moderate volume after hedge fund Elliot Associates L.P. disclosed in a regulatory filing it had acquired a 4.99% stake in the casino operator.
Top Casino Companies To Watch For 2014: Dover Downs Gaming & Entertainment Inc (DDE)
Dover Downs Gaming & Entertainment, Inc., incorporated in December of 2001, is a premier gaming and entertainment resorts. The Company's operations consist of: Dover Downs Casino, a 165,000-square foot casino complex featuring table games, including craps, roulette and card games, such as blackjack, Spanish 21, baccarat, 3-card and pai gow poker, the latest in slot machine offerings, multi-player electronic table games, the Crown Royal poker room, a Race & Sports Book operation, the Dover Downs' Fire & Ice Lounge, the Festival Buffet, Doc Magrogan's Oyster House, Frankie's Italian restaurant, as well as several bars, restaurants and four retail outlets; Dover Downs Hotel and Conference Center, a 500 room AAA Four Diamond hotel with a full-service spa/salon, conference, banquet, ballroom and concert hall facilities, and Dover Downs Raceway, a harness racing track with pari-mutuel wagering on live and simulcast horse races. All of its operations are located at its entertai nment complex in Dover. Its two wholly owned subsidiaries include Dover Downs, Inc. and Dover Downs Gaming Management Corp.
Dover Downs Casino
The Company's casino had approximately 2,539 slot machines as of December 31, 2011. It is open for business around the clock. During the year ended December 31, 2011, that the facility was visited by approximately 2.6 million patrons. Its slot machines range from penny machines to $100 machines in the Premium Slots area and include games found in the country's major gaming jurisdictions. The Company operates with 40 tables, including blackjack, craps and roulette tables. The Crown Royal poker room has 12 poker tables. It has its Race and Sports Book operation featuring parlay sports wagering on NFL games and pari-mutuel wagering on live and simulcast horse races. Dover Downs, Inc. is authorized to conduct video lottery, sports wagering and table game operations. The Company's Capital Club, a slots players clu b and tracking system, allows it to identify customers and t! o reward their level of play through various marketing programs.
Dover Downs Hotel
The Company's luxury hotel facility, the Dover Downs Hotel and Conference Center, connects to the Company's casino. The facility includes 500 rooms, including 11 luxury spa suites, a multi-purpose ballroom/concert hall, a fine dining restaurant, swimming pool and a luxurious 6,000 square-foot full-service spa. It offers a range of entertainment options to its patrons, including concerts featuring prominent entertainers, live boxing, gourmet dining, spa facilities, trade shows and conferences. During 2011, hotel occupancy averaged 90%.
Dover Downs Raceway
The Company's Dover Downs Raceway conducts live harness races from November until April and is simulcast to more than 300 tracks and other off-track betting locations across North America on each of the Company's more than 120 live race dates. The Company's harness racing track is a 5/8-mi le track that is located on DVD's property and is on the inside of its one-mile motorsports superspeedway. Additional amenities include the Winners Circle Restaurant overlooking the horse racing track. Within the Company's Race & Sports Book operation is the simulcast parlor where the patrons can wager on harness and thoroughbred races received by satellite into its facility year round from numerous tracks across North America. Television monitors throughout the area provide views of all races simultaneously and the betting windows are connected to a central computer allowing bets to be received on all races from all tracks.
The Company has an agreement with the Delaware Standardbred Owner's Association, Inc. (DSOA) effective September 1, 2010 and continuing through August 31, 2014. DSOA's membership consists of owners, trainers and drivers of harness horses participating in harness race meetings at its facilities and elsewhere in the United States and Canada. Under the DSOA agreement, the Company is required to distrib! ute as pu! rses for races conducted at its facilities a percentage of its retained share of pari-mutuel revenues.
The Company competes with Harrington Raceway and Delaware Park.
The REIT is expected to spend as much as $500 million in acquisitions in 2014, according to Barron's, and some potential acquisition targets include Isle of Capri Casinos Inc. (NASDAQ: ISLE) which has a market cap of around $323 million or Dover Downs Gaming & Entertainment Inc. (NYSE: DDE) with a market cap of around $47 million.
Stocks on the move: Vodafone Group PLC (NASDAQ: VOD) is up 8.1% at $31.80 on reports of discussions with Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) that would result in the sale of Vodafone's 45% stake in Verizon Wireless to the controlling shareholder. Dover Downs Gaming & Entertainment Inc. (NYSE: DDE) is up 10.8% at $1.54 after Wednesday's launch of its online casino games that will soon be available to state residents to play for real money.
Top Casino Companies To Watch For 2014: Pinnacle Entertainment Inc.(PNK)
Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. owns, develops, and operates casinos, and related hospitality and entertainment facilities in the United States. It operates casinos, such as L'Auberge du Lac in Lake Charles, Louisiana; River City Casino and Lumiere Place in St. Louis, Missouri; Boomtown New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana; Belterra Casino Resort in Vevay, Indiana; Boomtown Bossier City in Bossier City, Louisiana; and Boomtown Reno in Reno, Nevada. The company also operates River Downs racetrack in southeast Cincinnati, Ohio. As of May 26, 2011, it operated seven casinos and one racetrack. The company was formerly known as Hollywood Park, Inc. and changed its name to Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. in February 2000. Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. was founded in 1935 and is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Time to make the switch
If I could name a sector that I'd certainly tread lightly around considering that consumers are tightening their wallets, it would be the casino sector. Casino companies rely on loose wallets and vacations to drive profits. This is why I feel it could be the time to say goodbye to casino and race track operator Pinnacle Entertainment (NYSE: PNK ) near its 52-week high.
What: Shares of Ameristar Casinos (NASDAQ: ASCA ) and Pinnacle Entertainment (NYSE: PNK ) fell as much as 11% today after the government brought into question the merger of the two companies.
[By Dan Radovsky]
Pinnacle Entertainment (NYSE: PNK ) has reached an agreement in principle with the Bureau of Competition of the Federal Trade Commission that would allow the company to complete its proposed acquisition of Ameristar Casinos (NASDAQ: ASCA ) , Pinnacle announced today.
Top Casino Companies To Watch For 2014: MGM Resorts International(MGM)
MGM Resorts International, through its subsidiaries, primarily owns and operates casino resorts in the United States. The company?s resorts offer gaming, hotel, dining, entertainment, retail, and other resort amenities. It also owns and operates golf courses and a golf club. As of December 31, 2010, the company owned and operated 15 properties located in Nevada, Mississippi, and Michigan; and has 50% investments in 4 other casino resorts in Nevada, Illinois, and Macau. In addition, MGM Resorts International has an agreement with the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, which owns and operates a casino resort in Connecticut, to carry the ?MGM Grand? brand name. The company was formerly known as MGM MIRAGE and changed its name to MGM Resorts International in June 2010. MGM Resorts International was founded in 1986 and is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Analysts at Ascendiant Capital initiated coverage of MGM Resorts (NYSE: MGM) with a Buy rating and $33 price target. Shares hit new 52 week highs of $28.74 before reversing gains and closing the day at $28.31, down 0.28 percent.
Sand Corp's successful resort operations have not only assigned it a narrow moat rating, but also positively positions the firm to receive casino licenses in countries like Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, where gambling will be legalized in the near future. In fact, the company benefits from its market share in the Singapore duopoly, through the Marina Bay Sands resort venue. With 34% gaming taxes, compared to Macao's 39%, the Singapore operation is the company's fastest growing business segment, and will continue to drive excessive EBITDA margins of 53.6% until 2018, when the casino license expires. Additionally, the firm's market share in Asia sets it apart from competitors like MGM Resorts International (MGM) or Monarch Casino & Resort Inc. (MCRI)
In the U.S., casinos with significant exposure to Macau are also taking a hit. Las Vegas Sands is down the least, at about 1.3% at the noon hour Tuesday. MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) is down nearly 2%, Wynn Resorts Ltd. (NASDAQ: WYNN) is down about 2.6%, and Melco Crown Entertainment Ltd. (NASDAQ: MPEL) is down about 4.5%.
Several key international players have legitimate shots of receiving gaming licences in Japan. Las Vegas Sands would be the top pick along with Melco Crown. (NASDAQ: MPEL ) Meanwhile MGM Resorts (NYSE: MGM ) is unlikely to emerge a winner.
This entry was posted in Blue Chip Stocks, Financial Stocks, Health Care Stocks on March 26, 2014 by admin.
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Genome Project
Genome projects are scientific endeavours that ultimately aim to determine the complete genome sequence of an organism (be it an animal, a plant, a fungus, a bacterium, an archaean, a protist or a virus). The genome sequence for any organism requires the DNA sequences for each of the chromosomes in an organism to be determined. For bacteria, which usually have just one chromosome, a genome project will aim to map the sequence of that chromosome. Humans, with 22 pairs of autosomes and 2 sex chromosomes, will require 24 separate chromosome sequences in order to represent the completed genome.
The Human Genome Project was a landmark genome project and some have argued that the era of genomics is one of the more fundamental advances in human history.
1 Genome assembly
1.1 Assembly software
2 Genome annotation
3 When is a genome project finished?
4 Historical and Technological Perspectives
5 Example genome projects
Genome assembly
Genome assembly refers to the process of taking a large number of short DNA sequences, all of which were generated by a shotgun sequencing project, and putting them back together to create a representation of the original chromosomes from which the DNA originated. In a shotgun sequencing project, all the DNA from a source (usually a single organism, anything from a bacterium to a mammal) is first fractured into millions of small pieces. These pieces are then "read" by automated sequencing machines, which can read up to 900 nucleotides or bases at a time. (The four bases are adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine, represented as AGCT.) A genome assembly algorithm works by taking all the pieces and aligning them to one another, and detecting all places where two of the short sequences, or reads, overlap. These overlapping reads can be merged together, and the process continues.
Genome assembly is a very difficult computational problem, made more difficult because genomes contain large numbers of identical sequences, known as repeats. These repeats can be thousands of nucleotides long, and some occur in thousands of different locations, especially in the large genomes of plants and animals.
Assembly software
Originally, most large-scale DNA sequencing centers developed their own software for assembling the sequences that they produced. However, this has changed as the software has grown more complex and as the number of sequencing centers has increased. Some well known assembly programs include:
Phred/Phrap by Phil Green was one of the first successful assemblers, widely used in the 1990s and early 2000s, especially for smaller genomes.
AMOS (A Modular, Open-Source assembler) is a well-known open source effort to bring together the efforts of leading genome assembly code developers. The home of AMOS is currently http://amos.sourceforge.net. AMOS was initiated at The Institute for Genomic Research by Steven Salzberg, Mihai Pop, and Art Delcher, who are now the The University of Maryland.
The Celera Assembler was the assembler developed by Gene Myers, Granger Sutton, Art Delcher, and others at Celera Genomics from 1998 until approximately 2002. It was moved to SourceForge and continues to be developed by the original scientists and others, at http://sourceforge.net/projects/wgs-assembler.
The Arachne assembler began in 2000 as the doctoral thesis of Serafim Batzoglou, now at Stanford University. Since that time, it has been developed by a team lead by David B. Jaffe at the Broad Institute, formerly part of the Whitehead Institute. It is available for download at http://www.broad.mit.edu/wga/arachnewiki/.
Genome annotation is the process of attaching biological information to sequences. It consists of two main steps:
identifying elements on the genome, a process called Gene Finding, and
attaching biological information to these elements.
Automatic annotation tools try to perform all this by computer analysis, as opposed to manual annotation (a.k.a. curation) which involves human expertise. Ideally, these approaches co-exist and complement each other in the same annotation pipeline.
The basic level of annotation is using BLAST for finding similarities, and then annotating genomes based on that. However, nowadays more and more additional information is added to the annotation platform. The additional information allows manual annotators to deconvolute discrepancies between genes that are given the same annotation.
For example, the SEED database uses genome context information, similarity scores, experimental data, and integrations of other resources to provide the most accurate genome annotations through their Subsystems approach. The Ensembl database relies on both curated data sources as well as a range of different software tools in their automated genome annotation pipeline.[1]
Structural annotation consists in the identification of genomic elements.
ORFs and their localisation
gene structure
coding regions
location of regulatory motifs
Functional annotation consists in attaching biological information to genomic elements.
biochemical function
biological function
involved regulation and interactions
These steps may involve both biological experiments and in silico analysis.
A variety of software tools have been developed to permit scientists to view and share genome annotations.
Genome annotation is the next major challenge for the Human Genome Project, now that the genome sequences of human and several model organisms are largely complete. Identifying the locations of genes and other genetic control elements is often described as defining the biological "parts list" for the assembly and normal operation of an organism. Scientists are still at an early stage in the process of delineating this parts list and in understanding how all the parts "fit together".[citation needed]
Genome annotation is an active area of investigation and involves a number of different organizations in the life science community which publish the results of their efforts in publicly available biological databases accessible via the web and other electronic means. Here is an alphabetical listing of on-going projects relevant to genome annotation:
Gene Ontology Consortium
Vertebrate and Genome Annotation Project (Vega)
When is a genome project finished?
When sequencing a genome, there are usually regions that are difficult to sequence (often regions with highly repetitive DNA). Thus, 'completed' genome sequences are rarely ever complete, and terms such as 'working draft' or 'essentially complete' have been used to more accurately describe the status of such genome projects. Even when every base pair of a genome sequence has been determined, there are still likely to be errors present because DNA sequencing is not a completely accurate process. It could also be argued that a complete genome project should include the sequences of mitochondria and (for plants) chloroplasts as these organelles have their own genomes.
It is often reported that the goal of sequencing a genome is to obtain information about the complete set of genes in that particular genome sequence. The proportion of a genome that encodes for genes may be very small (particularly in eukaryotes such as humans, where coding DNA may only account for a few percent of the entire sequence). However, it is not always possible (or desirable) to only sequence the coding regions separately. Also, as scientists understand more about the role of this noncoding DNA (often referred to as junk DNA), it will become more important to have a complete genome sequence as a background to understanding the genetics and biology of any given organism.
In many ways genome projects do not confine themselves to only determining a DNA sequence of an organism. Such projects may also include gene prediction to find out where the genes are in a genome, and what those genes do. There may also be related projects to sequence ESTs or mRNAs to help find out where the genes actually are.
Historical and Technological Perspectives
Historically, when sequencing eukaryotic genomes (such as the worm Caenorhabditis elegans) it was common to first map the genome to provide a series of landmarks across the genome. Rather than sequence a chromosome in one go, it would be sequenced piece by piece (with the prior knowledge of approximately where that piece is located on the larger chromosome). Changes in technology and in particular improvements to the processing power of computers, means that genomes can now be 'shotgun sequenced' in one go (there are caveats to this approach though when compared to the traditional approach).
Improvements in DNA sequencing technology has meant that the cost of sequencing a new genome sequence has steadily fallen (in terms of cost per base pair) and newer technology has also meant that genomes can be sequenced far more quickly. When research agencies decide what new genomes to sequence, the emphasis has been on species which have either a relevance to human health (e.g. pathogenic bacteria or vectors of disease such as mosquitos) or species which have commercial importance (e.g. livestock and crop plants). Secondary emphasis is placed on species whose genomes will help answer important questions in molecular evolution (e.g. the common chimpanzee).
In the future, it is likely that it will become even cheaper and quicker to sequence a genome. This will allow for complete genome sequences to be determined from many different individuals of the same species. For humans, this will allow us to better understand aspects of human genetic diversity.
Example genome projects
The common fruit fly, one of the first higher organisms to have its genome completely sequenced.
The zebrafish, another important model organism in genomics.
The International Grape Genome Program aims to improve control, yield and quality in wine grape production.
The Genomics GTL Pictorial Program.
Many organisms have genome projects that have either been completed or will be completed shortly, including:
Humans, Homo sapiens; see Human genome project
Neanderthal, "Homo neanderthalensis" (partial)
Haemophilus influenzae, a bacterium (the first free-living organism to have its genome fully sequenced)
Common House Mouse, Mus musculus
Brown Rat, Rattus norvegicus
Common Chimpanzee Pan troglodytes; see Chimpanzee Genome Project
Rhesus Macaque, Macaca mulatta
Domestic Chicken, Gallus gallus
Tammar Wallaby, Macropus eugenii
Domestic Cat, Felis silvestris
Domestic Dog, Canis lupus familiaris
Common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster
Baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Red bread mold, Neurospora crassa
Thale Cress, Arabidopsis thaliana
Rice, Oryza sativa
Common Wheat, Triticum aestivum
Maize, Zea mays
Poplar, Populus trichocarpa (The first tree to have its genome fully sequenced)
Escherichia coli, a coliform bacterium
SARS virus
Purple-spined sea urchin, Arbacia punctulata
Caenorhabditis elegans, a nematode worm
Zebra Danio, Brachydanio rerio
African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis
Oryzias latipes, a medakafish
Tiger blowfish, Takifugu rubipres
Tomato Solanum lycopersicum
Potato Solanum tuberosum
Western Honey bee, Apis mellifera
Grapevine, Vitis vinifera L.
Spanish flu
Platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus
Honey Bee Genome Sequencing Consortium
Human microbiome project
International Grape Genome Program
International HapMap Project
Joint Genome Institute
List of sequenced archaeal genomes
List of sequenced eukaryotic genomes
List of sequenced prokaryotic genomes
↑ "Ensembl's genome annotation pipeline online documentation".
GOLD:Genomes OnLine Database
Genome Project Database
BFAB functional annotation resources to benchmark and to develop new annotation methods
SEED The SEED database, an open source database for genome annotation.
IMG The Integrated Microbial Genomes system, for genome analysis by the DOE-JGI.
IMG/M The Integrated Microbial Genomes system, for metagenome analysis by the DOE-JGI.
CAMERA Cyberinfrastructure for Metagenomics, data repository and bioinformatics tools for metagenomic research.
PUMA2 Integrated Grid based system for the comparative analysis of genomes and metabolic reconstructions.
SUPERFAMILY Database of protein superfamily and family annotations for all completely sequenced organisms
SIMAP Similarity Matrix of Proteins distributed computing project
GDB Human Genome Data Base
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We didn't know exactly when, but early yesterday we learned that Square Enix's perpetually soft-launched sniper-centric take on the Hitman franchise would be coming today. As promised, Hitman Sniper ($0.99) has finally, at long last, for really realsies been released to the App Store. Seriously!
We last took a look at Hitman Sniper during last year's E3, just about an entire year ago, and that version that we saw was basically what was soft-launched in select territories shortly afterward. Then many months later the game was taken down entirely for reasons not really explained. It turns out Square Enix took it down to rework it from free to play into a paid game. Neat!
Hopefully they added a bit more content to it as well. I've only just downloaded it myself, so it looks like we'll get to find that out together, but the soft-launched version was definitely pretty light on stuff to do. Speaking of downloading, as has been the case for the past several weeks, I've heard many people complain about having issues with being able to download games from the App Store. I've run into some "Item No Longer Available" pop-ups myself, but so far I've been able to retry once or twice and get things downloaded. So if you're having trouble be patient, the issues usually work themselves out. Oh, and to the small contingent of people who ask "Where is Hitman Sniper??" in the Out Now post every week? This one's for you, buddies.


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Q: Is it possible to listen with multiple port for multiple client in single JPOS instance? I am new in JPOS. We have implemented jpos server for multiple clients.
here is a image of my scenario
For example, we have n number of clients. ISO message format are different for each client.
Is it possible to implement multiple listening port for each client in JPOS server?
If no, then what will be the best practice to process multiple client with single JPOS server instance?
How can we identify each client while processing ECHO and Sign-on request?
Please help.
Thanks in advance.

A: Absolutely, why not, you can add as many servers as you want, with different protocols. Take a look at http://jpos.org/tutorials and just add more servers to your deploy directory.

A: You can certainly add multiple q2 servers.
Just add another xml definition of a q2 server in your dist folder, jPOS would immediately pick up the new server and start listening to your specified port.

A: You can use group,selector, participant features of JPOS to process echo and request.
Sample code for Selector and Group
    <participant class="org.jpos.demo.group.Selector" name="Selector" logger="Q2">
            <property name="1100" value="Request" />
            <property name="1800" value="Echo" />
    </participant>

     <group name="Request">
            <participant class="org.jpos.demo.transaction.Request" logger="Q2" realm="prepare-response">
            </participant>
</group>

     <group name="Echo">
            <participant class="org.jpos.demo.transaction.Echo" logger="Q2" realm="prepare-echo">
            </participant>
         </group>

A selector can identify the MTI of incoming message example: 1100 for request and 1800 for echo.
The Selector class can implement GroupSelector and Configurable and overrides the below method to get MTI
@Override
        public String select(long l, Serializable serializable) {
            Context ctx = (Context)serializable;
            ISOMsg resIsoMsg = (ISOMsg)ctx.get(REQUEST);
            String selector = "";
            try {
                selector = configuration.get(resIsoMsg.getMTI());
            } catch (ISOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            return selector;
        }

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Q: Add interactive checkbox to PDF using itext 7 I'm trying to add an AcroField checkbox to a PDF that's being generated  by iText7 pdfHTML. This is not working by default, I saw someone suggest using a custom tag worker but as much as I tried I couldn't get it to work. Does anyone have any idea how to implement this? Or an  example?

A: I've created a very simple example to show you how one can create a custom tag worker and add an acrofield to a document while html to pdf processing.
Look at the next snippet:
class CustomTagWorkerFactory extends DefaultTagWorkerFactory {
@Override
public ITagWorker getCustomTagWorker(IElementNode tag, ProcessorContext context) {
    if (tag.name().equals("input")) {
        if (AttributeConstants.CHECKBOX.equals(tag.getAttribute(AttributeConstants.TYPE))) {
            return new AcroInputTagWorker(tag, context);
        }
    }
    return null;
}

Here I've introduced a custom tag worker factory which will create default tagworkers for all tags except for the one I've specified (<input type="checkbox">).
Now let's add an acrofield to the document on <input type="checkbox"> processing:
class AcroInputTagWorker extends InputTagWorker {

public AcroInputTagWorker(IElementNode element, ProcessorContext context) {
    super(element, context);
    PdfAcroForm.getAcroForm(context.getPdfDocument(), true)
            .addField(PdfFormField.createCheckBox(context.getPdfDocument(), new Rectangle(100, 700, 30, 30), "checkbox", "Off"));
}

That's basically it. The resultant pdf for a very simple html file (basically, just one line: <input type="checkbox">) looks as this:

Now let's briefly discuss what can be improved:
1) you may want to check whether CHECKED attribute is set and consider it while setting the acrofield's value (in the example above I've just set it as "Off")
2) you need to create different acrofield's name values (I've just used "checkbox")
3) you may want to render the acrofield not at a certain position, predefined before html to pdf processing. You may want to let iText define its position dynamically depending on where the input tag is placed.
In that case the solution would be more difficult. You will need to create your own CheckBox element (probably extended from aParagraph) and a renderer for it (probably extended from a ParagraphRender). Then you will need to override its layout method (perhaps just call super.layout() to get the coordinates of the paragraph and only then add the acrofield to the document). That's not easy, but it's certainly worth a try! And if you're not successful, you can always ask another SO question :)


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Dolores J. Harris
27 October 1927 in Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States of America [ s2939 ]
17 August 1992 in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States of America [ s2939 ]
in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Saint Clair, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States of America - Plot: Left Side Sect 1 Row 1 [ s2940 ]
George Edward Harris
Born About 1885 - Died Before 1930
Emma L. Sinton
Born 1 March 1888 - Died 25 June 1948
Gilbert J. Johnson
Born 31 August 1920 - Died 21 November 2010
14 March 1945 in Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States of America [ s2938 ]
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Given Name: Dolores
Middle Name: J
Surname: Johnson
Birth Date: 27 October 1927
Social Security Number: 199-20-9098
State: Pennsylvania
Last Place of Residence: Schuylkill, Pennsylvania
Previous Residence Postal Code: 17901
Event Date: 17 August 1992
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Headstone of Dolores J. Johnson (née Harris) 1927 - 1992
Odd Fellows Cemetery, Saint Clair, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
The headstone photograph comes from the Find A Grave website courtesy of Joy Wilson
The location is Odd Fellows Cemetery, Saint Clair, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950
Name: Gilbert J. Johnson
Event Place: Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States
Birth Year (Estimated): 1921
Father's Name: John M.
Mother's Name: Anna Heigle
Spouse's Name: Dolores J. Harris
Spouse's Age: 17
Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated): 1928
Spouse's Father's Name: George Edward
Spouse's Mother's Name: Emma Sinton
Reference ID: 194
GS Film number: 2134038
Digital Folder Number: 004541339
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