Due to the effects of the writer's strike, the writing staff searched the scripts from Star Trek: Phase II, a series which was cancelled before being filmed; the first planned episode had been developed into Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
Inventors from Konan University developed a comic robot duo, Gonta and Aichan, who have performed for students; Aichan (one metre tall) searches the internet for script fodder, while Gonta (fifty-five centalltres tall) mispronounces the words, endlessly playing the screw-up.
When the user introduces a chromosome and an approximate coordinate, the script searches the ensGene table for the closest upstream and/or downstream gene with at least one orthologous gene in orthoDB, then returning the exact chromosome position and gene name.
A script searches the NCBI protein database and retrieves new entries as described above.
Text files containing Affy IDs (one per line) and cosmid names are input into the script which then searches the wormbase mirror and matches Affy ID/cosmid name to a specific transcript.
We used the EMBOSS palindrome script to search the genomes of B. vafer, B. floridanus, and B. pennsylvanicus for palindromes between 30-1000 bp, with a maximum gap of 20 bp between inverted repeats and a maximum of 3 mismatches.
Custom Perl scripts then searched the blast output to find all cases where query "x" gave best hit "y" and query "y" gave best hit "x" (defined as Best Bidirectional Hit).
The strings served as an input to the Perl script prosite_scan (author: Kay Hofmann ) searching the nucleotide section of GenBank (downloaded April 12th 2000).
A custom Perl script was used to search the unique Lung Cancer DSA probesets' annotations for GO terms and associate probesets with each category for which their annotation contained a related term.
IMDb was born on October 17 , 1990as a series of Unix shell scripts to let users search the USENET group, rec.arts.movies.movies
