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25 unusual facts about Blast


Blast-related ocular trauma

The United States Department of Defense classifies IEDs as explosive machines that are constructed exclusively (i.e., without mass production) and result in the direct physical harm of surrounding individuals.

The prevalence of mines in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom has made them the most frequent mechanism of injury behind the traumatic “signature” in modern warfare, blast-induced traumatic brain injury (bTBI).

These helmets, the Modular Integrated Communications Helmet (MICH) feature a mesh netting that offers comfort between the wearer’s head and the helmet’s Kevlar shell.

Dorothy Shakespear

Instead they lived with W.B. Yeats at Stone Cottage for the winter, where Pound worked on proofs for the second issue of BLAST magazine.

One of small number of women vorticist painters, she had art work published in the short-lived but influential literary magazine BLAST.

Exon trapping

The technique has largely been supplanted by the approach of sequencing cDNA generated from mRNA and then using bioinformatics tools such as NCBI's BLAST server to determine the source of the sequence, thereby identifying the appropriate exon-intron splice sites.

Interferome

BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) analysis and orthologue sequence download;

Inverse polymerase chain reaction

The amplified product can then be sequenced and compared with DNA databases to locate the sequence which has been disrupted.

Open reading frame

Sequerome - A sequence profiling tool that links each BLAST record to the NCBI ORF enabling complete ORF analysis of a BLAST report.

Sequerome

Sequerome is a web-based Sequence profiling tool for integrating the results of a BLAST sequence-alignment report with external research tools and servers that perform advanced sequence manipulations, and allowing the user to record the steps of such an analysis.

Stephen Altschul

Most notably, Altschul is the co-author of the BLAST algorithm used for sequence analysis of proteins and nucleotides.

Transposable element

Sequence self-comparison programs use databases such as AB-BLAST to conduct an initial sequence alignment.

Warren Gish

Gish's earliest contributions to BLAST were made while working at the NCBI, starting in July 1989.

to allow users to retrieve individual sequences in part or in whole, natively, translated or reverse-complemented, and able to dump the entire contents of a BLAST database back into human-readable FASTA format.

This was also the first time any BLAST package introduced a new database format in a manner transparent to existing users and without abandoning support for prior formats, as a result of abstracting the database I/O functions completely separately from the data analysis functions.

In May 1996, WU-BLAST version 2.0 with gapped alignments was publicly released in the form of a drop-in upgrade for existing users of ungapped NCBI BLAST and WU-BLAST (both at version 1.4, after having forked in 1994).

Gish also proposed multiplexing query sequences to speed up BLAST searches by an order of magnitude or more (MPBLAST); implemented segmented sequences with internal sentinel bytes, in part to aid multiplexing with MPBLAST and in part to aid analysis of segmented query sequences from shotgun sequencing assemblies;

The resulting search programs were significantly more sensitive, but only marginally slower than ungapped BLAST,

As an option to WU-BLAST, Gish implemented a faster, more memory-efficient and more sensitive two-hit BLAST algorithm than is used by the NCBI software.

to the evaluation of multiple, gapped alignment scores in all BLAST search modes.

WU-BLAST with XDF was the first BLAST suite to support accurate, comprehensive indexed-retrieval of NCBI standard sequence identifiers,

The NCBI Experimental BLAST Network Service, running the latest BLAST software on SMP hardware against the latest sequence databases, established the NCBI in December 1989, as a convenient, one-stop shop for sequence similarity searching.

In 1999, Gish added support to WU-BLAST for the Extended Database Format (XDF), the first BLAST database format capable of accurately representing the entire draft sequence of the human genome in full-length chromosome sequence objects.

Little NIH funding (average 20% FTE) was received for his WU-BLAST development, starting in November 1995, and ending shortly after the September 1997 release of the NCBI gapped BLAST (“blastall”).

At Washington University in St. Louis, Gish developed the first practical BLAST suite of programs to combine rapid gapped sequence alignment


1994 Cando event

Zdeněk Ceplecha of the Ondřejov Observatory in the Czech Republic explains the incident might have been a blast of subterranean gases which, removing the topsoil in a sudden explosion, vented into the air.

Acid Survivors Foundation

ASF provides legal support for survivors by referring them to its legal partners including BRAC, Aino Salish Kendro (ASK), the Bangladesh National Women Lawyer’s Association (BNWLA), and the Bangladesh Legal Aid Services and Trust (BLAST).

August Spies

The blast and ensuing gunfire resulted in the deaths of eight police officers and an unknown number of civilians.

Blast 106

Despite being a community based radio station staffed by volunteers, Blast 106 competes with commercial rivals in the Belfast area such as Cool FM and Citybeat.

Bubba Blackwell

Before Buell went out of business in 2009, Bubba was sponsored by the Harley-Davidson subsidy and included the Buell Blast and the Buell Lighting.

Buzz Lightyear attractions

The Buzz Lightyear attractions (a.k.a. Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin, Buzz Lightyear's AstroBlasters, or Buzz Lightyear Laser Blast, depending on the park) are a series of Tomorrowland video-game-inspired attractions based on the Disney/Pixar film Toy Story 2 at Disney Parks around the world.

Ceradyne

Ceradyne is also the producer of ceramic Enhanced Small Arms Protective Inserts (E-SAPI) for the US Army's Interceptor body armor, and the blast-proof components of the Ceradyne BULL MRAP/MMPV vehicle project.

Cofactor Genomics

Upon graduation, Dr. Glasscock pursued his doctorate in Genetics at Washington University in St. Louis where he studied under Warren Gish, Ph.D., developer of the NCBI BLAST sequence analysis program.

Daniel and Marty

In the third Legends novel Dune: The Battle of Corrin (2004), Omnius had sent out a last blast of information before being destroyed in the Battle of Corrin.

Early Mornin' Stoned Pimp

"Shotgun Blast" was renamed Blast in 1999 and was used on the soundtrack to WCW Mayhem: The Music.

Frank Ash Yeo

He moved to Swansea where he was a colliery owner and director of the Swansea Bank and the Swansea Blast Furnace Company.

Gas spore

The blast spore appears in the basic edition of D&D in the Companion Rules set, in the Dungeon Masters Companion: Book Two (1984).

Harold Agnew

With Alvarez and Lawrence H. Johnson, Agnew had devised a method for measuring the yield of the nuclear blast by dropping pressure gauges on parachutes and telemetering the readings back to the plane.

JazzMn Orchestra

In order to this, JazzMN performs at several music festivals each year including the McNally Smith Winter Jazz Blast located at the McNally Smith College of Music.

John F. Thorson

On that day, in Dagami, Leyte province, in the Philippines, Thorson was wounded while single-handedly attacking an enemy trench, then smothered the blast of an enemy-thrown hand grenade with his body.

Kasugamycin

Kasugamycin was discovered by Hamao Umezawa, who also discovered kanamycin and bleomycin, as a drug which could prevent growth of a fungus causing rice blast disease.

Kay Tagal Kang Hinintay

Andre Tiangco as Father Lorenz – He stood as Francis' spiritual voice of reason while Lorrea was recuperating from the blast that destroyed her face.

Long Pond Ironworks

A dam at "Long Pond" (Greenwood Lake) provided the waterpower needed to operate a blast for the furnace and a large forge.

Lyle Estill

He purchased BLAST software from U.S. Robotics, helped found EMJ Internet, and was briefly involved with OpenNMS, an open source network management company founded by Tarus Balog.

Mk 2 mine

A Sorbo ring made of Sorbo rubber can be fitted between the cover and the mine body, which absorbs shock and blast and allows the mines to be planted as close as two feet (60 cm) without causing sympathetic detonation (normally five feet is the minimum safe distance).

Nomi Ruiz

Ruiz collaborated with The Ones on their single "Let's Celebrate" from their upcoming fourth album Blast From the Past.

Nuclear Blast

Meshuggah also became the first Nuclear Blast band to be reviewed in Rolling Stone magazine.

Out of the Dark

Nuclear Blast All-Stars: Out of the Dark, a 2007 compilation album by Nuclear Blast Records

Peter W. Klein

Klein also filmed, edited and produced documentary specials for Nightline, following people over long periods of time, including the abortion clinic bombing victim Emily Lyons as she spent her first year recovering from a near-fatal blast.

Samuel Karlin

In the early 1990s, Karlin and Stephen Altschul developed the Karlin-Altschul statistics, a basis for the highly used sequence similarity software program BLAST.

San Angeles

In 2006, Marissa Mayer, Google's then 31-year-old product-launch czar, seized on the San Angeles concept to describe how Google might modify its home page:We're still not ready to make really fundamental changes and blast all of our products on our home page.

Shunsuke Watanabe

This blast by "Big Papi" has been recorded as the longest home run ever hit at the Tokyo Dome.

Sonic R

The soundtrack for Sonic R was composed by British composer Richard Jacques of Sega Europe, who had also previously worked on the soundtrack of the Sega Saturn and PC versions of Sonic 3D Blast.

Spring Vale

The sculpture was unveiled on 19 October 1994 by Labour MP Dennis Turner, who had worked as a steelman at the Elizabeth blast furnace.

Stun grenade

The loud blast is meant to cause temporary loss of hearing, and also disturbs the fluid in the ear, causing loss of balance.

Summer 2003

It was an exclusive at Nuclear Blast mailorder and was released as an EP and as a "2 for 1" with the 2003 album We've Come for You All.

The Goodbye Gossip Girl

Everything seems to be going smoothly until Gossip Girl sends a devastating e-mail blast that humiliates the majority of the senior class, prompting Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively) to seek out the identity of Gossip Girl.

The Tyrones

The Tyrones were a popular Philadelphia rock and roll group of the 1950s run by Tyrone DeNittis and featuring George Lesser that recorded a number of hit songs including "Blast Off" and "I'm Shook" and appeared singing "Blast Off" in the film Let's Rock.

Tondar

On January, 2010, Iran summoned the Swiss ambassador to Iran, who is representing the interests of United States in Iran, demanding the extradition of individuals associated with the group, whom Iran believes are behind the assassination of Masoud Alimohammadi, a nuclear physics professor in Tehran who was killed in a bomb blast.

Transistor Blast: The Best of the BBC Sessions

Transistor Blast: The Best of the BBC Sessions is a boxed set by XTC released in 1998, just two months prior to Apple Venus Volume 1.

University of Oulu

The University of Oulu is known among hackers as the home of the Internet Relay Chat and for the File Transfer Protocol server x2ftp, named after the basement / blast shelter area in which it was physically located.

Welcome to the Dance

The band's second post-reunion effort following their reformation as a quartet in 2007, it was written, produced and recorded in Berlin, Los Angeles, and New York between the years of 2008 and 2009, featuring production by Nasri, Hakim Bell, Bill Blast, Adam Messinger, and Aaron Pearce, among others.