At every column (i.e., position in the seed motif) the best nucleotide element was given value equal to 1 and unacceptable nucleotides (i.e., the other three elements) were given a very small number close to zero.
You can help get that number close to zero.
With the right focus, and increased funding and awareness, we can get that number close to zero.
Additionally, we found that as little as 1 ng of high-quality DNA (NA18507) in a 20 μL reaction was required to yield an expected copy number close to two (Table S-1, Supporting Information).
But "small" is, perhaps, a less apt term for a force estimated to number close to twenty thousand fighters, unless it was meant as an expression of dismay at the group's seizure of an outsized share of the world's attention.
The entire population of the United States, top five largest country in the world, would have to be multiplied over three times to create a number close to a billion.
But those figures obscured another statistic: a vast majority of Mr. Obama's past donors, who number close to four million, have not yet given him any money at all.
While the cast lists twenty-six planers, an informal count suggests that there are enough extras around to swell the number close to fifty.
