The paper discusses the prototype architecture, its basic application for getting dynamic bus information, and the long-term scope in supporting transportation companies and municipalities, reducing costs, improving bus lines, urban mobility and planning.
Using Android software tools, Raytheon engineers built a basic application for military personnel that combines maps with a buddy list.
All samples were normalized against the geometric mean of two reference genes (GAPDH and β-actin), which were chosen after testing a group of 7 commonly used reference genes using geNorm Visual Basic application for Microsoft Excel as described previously [17].
To determine the stability of the selected reference genes, the geNorm Visual Basic application for Microsoft Excel was used as described by Vandesompele et al [ 9].
Data was analysed with SDS 2.1 software and with geNORM Visual Basic application for Microsoft_Excel as described by Vandesompele et al. to determine the best reference gene for the qPCR [ 45].
All expression values were normalized relative to the 'normalization factor' calculated with the geNorm Visual Basic Application for Microsoft Excel [ 69] from the expression of values of four genes (Rpl18a, Atp6l, Eef2, and Sod), which were identified among the least changing transcripts across the experimental conditions by RNA-seq.
Now that consumers can get these basic applications for free, the company is hoping that pay add-on features will be enough to override the loss.
It's a bizarre idea at first, but with a bit of brainstorming, it makes sense: plenty of printers already have basic applications for stuff like printing Flickr photos and movie tickets from online services.
To manage the large number of calculations generated, we used a Visual Basic Application (VBA) for Microsoft Excel that automatically calculates the gene-stability value M for every control gene in a given set of samples [ 8].
