Abstract: Provided is a means capable of high-speed analysis of a large-scale correlation among sequences of biopolymers and reutilization of any analyzed profile. A large-scale profile database 103 is provided with which the correlation among sequences of biopolymers can be analyzed at a high speed, and any profile can be extracted from the profile database.

Abstract: In gene expression analysis using DNA chips, the position of a probe on a genome sequence, candidates for splice variants, and the like are displayed in relation to one another. Information on the position of the probe designed for a DNA chip system on the genome sequence is retrieved by connecting to an external database and a server that manage sequence information (genome sequence, mRNA, EST, etc.) and annotation information of various organisms. Further, homologous sequences of a gene for which the probe was designed are detected by homology search program, and the candidates for splice variants obtained from the search are stored in a DNA chip database in relation to expression data.

Abstract: A method of comparing dendrograms created by different references or algorithms displays individual dendrograms (201, 202) on a screen in an overlapped yet distinguishable manner. The overlapped portions of the dendrograms are displaced vertically or horizontally from one another and indicated by different colors for individual dendrograms. A specified branch and elements hanging therefrom can be highlighted when displayed, such that differences in the manner in which individual elements of the overlapped dendrograms are clustered can be easily recognized.

Abstract: A method of comparing dendrograms created by different references or algorithms displays individual dendrograms (201, 202) on a screen in an overlapped yet distinguishable manner. The overlapped portions of the dendrograms are displaced vertically or horizontally from one another and indicated by different colors for individual dendrograms. A specified branch and elements hanging therefrom can be highlighted when displayed, such that differences in the manner in which individual elements of the overlapped dendrograms are clustered can be easily recognized.

Abstract: Provided is a means capable of high-speed analysis of a large-scale correlation among sequences of biopolymers and reutilization of any analyzed profile. A large-scale profile database 103 is provided with which the correlation among sequences of biopolymers can be analyzed at a high speed, and any profile can be extracted from the profile database.

Abstract: Selection of probes is facilitated by effectuating intuitive and efficient discernment of entire constitutions of correlations between base sequences of biopolymers and base sequences of probes.

Abstract: Disclosed is a technology capable of acquiring transverse knowledge beyond specialized fields such as medicine and biology. From a knowledge database for accumulating objects as object values, the objects having phrases including terms used in a medical field and/or a biological field, and accumulating relations between the objects, the relations having values, as relation values, for expressing mutual relations between the objects quantitatively, objects related to a query object are extracted based on the relations between the objects, and the query object and the objects extracted are displayed together with the relations there between.

Abstract: A method for transportation, utilization and recovery of heat comprises the wide-area installation of methanol and reformed gas supply pipelines, combustion of the methanol and reformed gas to obtain high-temperature heat, subjecting reformed gas supplied from the reformed gas supply pipeline to an exothermic reform reaction and feeding the methanol thus produced into the methanol supply pipeline to obtain low-temperature heat, subjecting methanol supplied from the methanol supply pipeline to an endothermic reform reaction and feeding the reformed gas thus produced into the reformed gas supply pipeline and recovering the waste heat that is generated.

Abstract: An apparatus and method of sorting power transmission belts into groups of substantially equal length. The apparatus is entirely automatic and includes mechanism for transferring seriatim the respective belts from a supply to a measuring drive mechanism. The belt being measured is driven under tension and the length and rideout concurrently determined and fed to a computer. In the event the belt is found to be outsized but capable of being brought into the desired range by grinding the sides thereof, grinding mechanism of the apparatus is actuated to adjust the configuration suitably. The apparatus includes mechanism for discarding outsized belts which cannot be so adjusted. The apparatus includes mechanism for transferring the belts from the measuring drive system to a conveyor and associated mechanism for sorting the measured belts as a function of a signal provided by the computer.

Abstract: An antithrombogenic, highly elastic polyurethane compound produced by the reaction of a polyether diol with a diisocyanate and a diamine, which polyurethane compound is characterized by said polyether diol being a compound of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein, a, b, and c each denote a positive integer and having a polyoxyethlene content in the range of from 10 to 50 weight percent and an average molecular weight in the range of from 500 to 5,000.

Abstract: A unified structure of a warmer is obtained by accommodating an exothermic composition consisting of iron powder, a chloride or sulfate of a metal having a tendency of ionization greater than iron, active carbon and water in a bag composed of a cloth or cloths and a film or films having aeration holes and encapsulating the resulting warmer in an air-tight envelope. Heat of oxidation of iron powder is utilized for the purpose for creating and keeping warmth.

Abstract: A unified structure of a warmer is obtained by accommodating an exothermic composition consisting of iron powder, a chloride or sulfate of a metal having a tendency of ionization greater than iron, active carbon and water in a bag composed of a cloth or cloths and a film or films having aeration holes and encapsulating the resulting warmer in an air-tight envelope. Heat of oxidation of iron powder is utilized for the purpose for creating and keeping warmth.