Published in BMC Bioinformatics
BackgroundComputational biology requires the reading and comprehension of biological data files. Plain-text formats such as SAM, VCF, GTF, PDB and FASTA, often contain critical information which is obfuscated by the data structure complexity.ResultsbioSyntax (https://biosyntax.org/) is a freely available suite of biological syntax highlighting pack...
This paper discusses the rise in volcano tourism in the last few decades, focusing on its impact in recent eruptive crises in Iceland. The paper uses evidence from ethnographic research and surveys to argue that two divergent economic narratives come into conflict around volcanoes: the problematisation of the earth as potentially risky, and the ele...
Grounded in the practical problem of light pollution, this paper examines the aesthetic dimensions of urban and natural darkness, and its impact on how we perceive and evaluate nighttime lighting. It is argued that competing notions of the sublime, manifested through artificial illumination and the natural night sky respectively, reinforce a geogra...
The question of value in art seems twofold. On the one hand, we have the values internal to art, those that dominate the field of art, and, on the other hand, the values that an artwork defends or advocates for the whole society. These two sets can go in divergent or even opposite directions. Through the cases of ecology and the works of art that d...
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Cet article, en accès libre sur le site de l'éditeur, revient sur les formes propres du sublime montaignien à la lumière des écrits de Marie de Gournay. Ses traités de défense de la poésie soulignent l’inscription de la recherche montaignienne d’une langue qu’il dit non pas sublime, mais « gaillarde », dans une vision morale et politique d’une hist...
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The French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998) develops an aesthetic based on the concept of sublime from his writings on art from the decades of 1980 and 1990. Such formulations belong to his philosophical period characterized as Kantian turn, based on the reading of Kant's critical philosophy, but with nuances of Burke's influence. The ...
The French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998) develops an aesthetic based on the concept of sublime from his writings on art from the decades of 1980 and 1990. Such formulations belong to his philosophical period characterized as Kantian turn, based on the reading of Kant's critical philosophy, but with nuances of Burke's influence. The ...
The French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998) develops an aesthetic based on the concept of sublime from his writings on art from the decades of 1980 and 1990. Such formulations belong to his philosophical period characterized as Kantian turn, based on the reading of Kant's critical philosophy, but with nuances of Burke's influence. The ...
