PAINT allows curators to make precise assertions as to when functions were gained and lost during evolution and record the evidence (e.g. experimentally supported GO annotations and phylogenetic information including orthology) for those assertions.
The fact that PAINT makes inferences through ancestral sequences rather than in a pairwise manner, allows it to make precise assertions in a more flexible manner than either interPro2GO or Compara.
In Britain, where dourness can seem to be as much a part of the stereotypical national character as bad food, foul weather and precise distinctions of status, the assertion of a right to be happy can seem almost revolutionary.
Should I be? — DAVID SCHADE, VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA I share your skepticism that your dog understands the precise meaning of "walk" (an assertion some animal lovers will repudiate — but, please, no e-mail about how much your dog enjoys "Pride and Prejudice").
To be precise, the story never made assertions about China, until that statement linked Wen Jiabao's relatives to the national image.
"The military advocate general did not find any evidence to support the assertion that the mill was attacked from the air using precise munitions, as alleged in the human rights council fact-finding report," it said.
AP's assertion that these words are inaccurate isn't remotely neutral or precise; it reveals a banquet of their own assumptions about what governs prejudice.
Which is, I would humbly suggest, a patently ludicrous assertion: how could Beethoven, in 19th-century Vienna, possibly have garnered this "precise and almost absolute knowledge" of west African polyrhythmic traditions, even if he had wanted to?
Therefore, the 'evaluating the handwriting' section below augments these assertions with an exhaustive study of the features that indicate a more precise tremor classification.
Levi challenged that assertion on his blog last week, finding that it was likely 10 times too high -- though he said precise accounting was all but impossible.
