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By Ian Dobson & Jim Hietala, The Open Group
The Open Group Framework for Secure Collaboration Oriented Architectures (O-SCOA) Guide provides system and security architects and designers with a blueprint specifying the requirements for secure design of enterprise architectures that support safe and secure operation, globally, over any unsecured network.
This secure COA framework was originally developed by the Jericho Forum®, a forum of The Open Group, from 2007-2009. They started with an overview paper outlining the objectives and framework concepts, and quickly followed it with a high-level COA framework that mapped the primary components – processes, services, attributes and technologies – and identified the sub-components under each. Then, over the next 18 months the forum developed and published a series of requirements papers on the results of the methodical analysis of the security requirements that each sub-component should be architected to fulfill.
The O-SCOA Guide brings together an updated version of all these papers in one publication, adding the latest developments in the critical identity management component. It also includes the business case for building Enterprise Architectures that follow the O-SCOA guidance to assure safe and secure operations between business partners over insecure global networks. Additionally, it includes the Jericho Commandments, first published in 2006, which have stood the test of time as the proven benchmark for assessing how secure any Enterprise Architecture is for operations in open systems.
The SCOA guide may be downloaded here.
Ian Dobson is the director of the Security Forum and the Jericho Forum for The Open Group, coordinating and facilitating the members to achieve their goals in our challenging information security world. In the Security Forum, his focus is on supporting development of open standards and guides on security architectures and management of risk and security, while in the Jericho Forum he works with members to anticipate the requirements for the security solutions we will need in future.
Jim Hietala, CISSP, GSEC, is the Vice President, Security for The Open Group, where he manages all IT security and risk management programs and standards activities. He participates in the SANS Analyst/Expert program and has also published numerous articles on information security, risk management, and compliance topics in publications including The ISSA Journal, Bank Accounting & Finance, Risk Factor, SC Magazine, and others.

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The noted tabloid duality of Jennifer Aniston—beautiful, charismatic millionaire actress or SAD CRONE FISHWIFE FROM THE LAND OF THE UNLOVED WOMEN?!!!—finally comes to an end soon because she's planning her wedding to Justin Theroux. Yes, folks, the dude who was on one episode of Sex and The City as a premature ejaculator gets to Define Jennifer Aniston's Womanity.
Apparently the wedding will take place soon after she completes her current film in Connecticut, The Untitled Elmore Leonard Project, and:
...she has already checked off some major tasks on her to-do list, including choosing wedding bands, setting a date and narrowing down dresses.
Haha, guys, the ring, though! Does anybody actually want that kind of schmaltzy mall-quarter-machine shit or are engagement rings basically just the carat version of a big dick competition? At least now we know what kind of Hollywood extra work the iceberg from Titanic is doing these days. [People]
Holy fuck, Carrie Fisher:
Video footage surfaced of the performance — which took place last week on board the Holland America Eurodam in the Caribbean — showing Carrie slurring a couple off-key songs. Her dog even POOPS AND PEES on the stage while she's singing. It's pretty nuts.
There were reports Carrie — who was featured on the cruise as a "surprise" celebrity guest — was wasted at the time of the show ... but her rep says the on-stage breakdown was caused by Fisher's bipolar disorder.
The rep says, "There was a medical incident related to Carrie Fisher's bipolar disorder. She went to the hospital briefly to adjust her medication and is feeling much better now."
Christ, I am a huge Postcards From The Edge fan, so I have nothing to say about this but try not to drink on your meds? ._. [TMZ]
A newly clean Billie Joe Armstrong talks about his decision to enter rehab after his disastrous "I'm not Justin Bieber, motherfuckers" tirade at the IHeartRadio festival:
"I couldn't predict where I was going to end up at the end of the night. I'd wake up in a strange house on a couch. I wouldn't remember how. It was a complete blackout." [...] "I remember tiny things. [...] The next morning, I woke up. I asked [my wife] Adrienne, 'How bad was it?' She said, 'It's bad.' I called my manager. He said, 'You're getting on a plane, going back to Oakland and going into rehab immediately."
He also thanks his fans for their support during this time. [MTV]
After three years as a public couple, Rachel McAdams and her Midnight In Paris co-star/boyfriend Michael Sheen broke up. It seems pretty amicable, but McAdams is really good at keeping her shit private. (That would be our definition of private, not, say, Kim Kardashian's version of private. She'll be fine. [Us Weekly]
You guys feel like chewing on some ridiculous bullshit gossip-cud this morning? HOTEP! Apparently Liam Hemsworth cheated on Miley Cyrus with January Jones at a pre-Oscar party.
"It looked like they had some hot chemistry," an eyewitness at the event tells Star. "They were all over each other – and they even kissed!"
Wow, you really convinced me with the phrase "hot chemistry!" (Also, the item refers to Jones as "the scandalous single mother." Puke-die-puke-die.) [Radar Online]
In Scotland, hypersexualized One Direction Sour Patch Kid Harry Styles got hit in the nuts with a shoe onstage and collapsed in pain. There is video. [E!]
Mary-Louise Parker may have angrily called a New York antiques dealer a "fag." Fuck, dude, I expected better from her. [Radar Online]
Sorry: Tina Fey doesn't want to host the Oscars, ever. [Salon]
Seth MacFarlane won't be hosting the Oscars again, he says. Now that we've metaphorically seen his boobs, we never need to again? And that's all there is. [Twitter]
Lindsay Lohan drinks, drives. WHAAAT? JK. [TMZ]
She's gonna get some psychotherapy. [E!]
Human labia-face Steven Tyler made out with 22-year-old actress Levin Rambin. [NYDN]
Child endangerment charges against "Tanning Mom" Patricia Krentcil for forcing her 5-year-old daughter into a tanning bed were dropped. [TMZ]
You guys, Styx has massive a lawsuit against record companies. Tell your Styx-fan stepdad. It will give you something to talk about. [TMZ]
Kristen Bell had a baby shower and it was as cute as you think. [Us Weekly]
Kim Kardashian blogged about maternity jeans. [Us Weekly]
Matt Damon and wife Luciana are having a belated wedding celebration after their super-low-key ceremony in Manhattan. You're still not invited though, probably. [Page Six]
Yo, Kirsten Dunst kind of sucks:
Dunst was overheard complaining that she had to travel in business instead of first class, spies said, and also about the designer clothes she'd have to wear.
[Page Six]
Paris Jackson's got some new rebellious bling. [Radar Online]
In which Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr talk about dancing with their kid in an attempt to put adorable-blinders over the fact that their marriage may be failing because derrrrrrp. [Page Six]
Anne Hathaway says it upsets her when people call her a histrionic drama club president. Look, you do your job, I'll do mine, Hathaway. [Page Six]
Blake Fielder-Civil wishes he hadn't let Amy Winehouse do heroin. [Contact Music]
Jennifer Lawrence's clothes from Silver Linings Playbook are up for auction for a grazillion dollars if you want some tracksuits. [Ace Showbiz]
Bobby Brown was sentenced to 55 days in the clink for a DUI. [People]
It's possible that drugs influenced the suicide of country singer Mindy McCready. [Radar]
Realllllly starting to tire of Leonardo DiCaprio's aimless hedonistic Marcello-in-La Dolce Vita phase now. [NYDN]
Kate Middleton walked her dog. I'm pooping. I'm pooping. [Hello! Magazine]
Justin Bieber went out with a girl named Ella-Paige Roberts-Clarke Hyphenate-Parade. [Hollywood Life]
Apropos of nothing, last night I had a really tender drunk dream about hooking up with Jack White and then, like, actually being in mutual love with Jack White and very happy? So if you need me today, I'll be watching American Pickers in my pajamas and trying to shake that off.


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Hartline, Dolphins near deal
The Miami Dolphins are close to finalizing a deal with one of their own top free agents.
A source told FOXSports.com that Brian Hartline and the Dolphins are nearing agreement on a contract that would keep the wide receiver from hitting the free-agent market. The multiyear deal would average between $6 million and $6.5 million a season, the source said.
Hartline's agent Drew Rosenhaus was unavailable for immediate comment.
A 2009 fourth-round draft pick from Ohio State, Hartline is coming off his best NFL season. He had 74 catches for 1,083 yards and one touchdown in 2012.
If the deal cannot be finalized, the 26-year-old Hartline would be attractive in a free-agent class lacking depth at wide receiver behind Pittsburgh's Mike Wallace and Green Bay's Greg Jennings. Hartline, though, is believed to want to stay with the Dolphins.
At roughly $38 million under the salary cap, the receiver-starved Dolphins could sign Hartline and still make a run at Wallace or Jennings when the free-agent signing period begins March 12.
Rosenhaus can begin negotiating with other teams Saturday if a deal with the Dolphins isn't completed by Friday night.


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Happy Earth Day, you disgusting mass of consumers! What better way to celebrate than with a round-up of the worst eco-friendly, lecturing movies? We also include a few "green" films that won't make you feel bludgeoned by a tree.
Worst Earth Day Messages In Movies, Ever
The Day After Tomorrow
Movie Message: Your polluting lifestyle has led to the melting of the polar icecaps, which disrupted the North Atlantic current. And then we're all fucked. You filthy pigs. Why can't you drive a Prius, get educated, and recycle - like disheveled scientist Dennis Quaid? Unless you are a better person and stay behind with sick kids in hospitals, you will die in a fire tornado, or an attack by frost wolves. Recycle, or at least start stockpiling goods to help you face the next ice age. Also, we should really be nicer to Mexico.
Why It's Toxic Waste In A Biodegradable Wrapper: Bottom line, the FX and idea in this movie are cool as hell. Even though the execution and actions taken by each character are exceptionally stupid, weren't you secretly wishing for the next awesome-looking ice age while watching? A massive combined flood, tornado and snow attack could easily save you from credit card debt and annoying job, and spark the chance to be the everyday hero you always knew you could be. The "save the Earth" message was completely lost in the "What would you do?" fantasizing. It leaves us saying, "Let's bomb the polar ice caps and screw with the currents now. I'm ready, I've got two crates of baked beans in my basement and footie pajamas. Let's do this."
Highest Point of Contamination: It's been said before and we're going to say it again, the frost running scene. Absolutely ridiculous.
Movie Message: We've changed the Earth's core temperature, somehow, it's not really explained. But I'm sure it's something you did, or the Mayans.
Why It's Toxic Waste In A Biodegradable Wrapper: Unlike The Day After Tomorrow, if you're not one of the lucky rich people on the magical Noah's Ark, you're screwed. So what's the point? We're all gonna die anyways. It says so in Earth's date book.
Highest Point of Contamination: The final stand off, when Chiwetel Ejiofor is pleading with Oliver Platt to open the ark doors and let the rest of the people inside the boat. Then they do and everyone almost dies. The answer is always, "Tough shit, people. If it's you or me, it's always going to be me." Plus their idiotic sympathy almost got the last bits of the human race killed.
Movie Message: Don't mess with the natives and their magic soul tree.
Why It's Toxic Waste In A Biodegradable Wrapper: Why is being a Na'vi so great anyways? The film never fully explores the depth of this culture - instead, it treats the Na'vi like such a single-minded cliche that it's hard to sympathize with them when they are exterminated by the other massive cliche in this film, Colonel Quaritch. All sympathy and emotional impact are lost when dealing with the tragedy that befalls this alien race - because we don't know much about them besides the fact that they can have sex with their hair. It's only when the film deals with individual characters like Neytiri that we really feel sympathy.
Highest Point of Contamination: The New Age chanting around the magic soul tree, with all the swaying natives and the will o'wisps.
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Movie Message: Whales.
Why It's Toxic Waste In A Biodegradable Wrapper: Whales?
Highest Point of Contamination: Whales.
Fern Gully
Movie Message: Pollution is actually caused by a singing smoke monster who sounds a lot like Tim Curry. Don't release the monster stuck in the tree, humans, or he'll cut down the rain forest.
Why It's Toxic Waste In A Biodegradable Wrapper: Look, I love Fern Gully. But it doesn't really teach you much about saving the Earth, other than trees feel pain when you cut them down. Plus Hexxus is such a bad ass, how can you not cheer for him over the old fairies and their tree house?
Highest Point of Contamination: The sexy Tim Curry contamination Hexxus singing about "Toxic Love," it's a dirty/awesome scene.
Happy Feet
Movie Message: If you over fish the waters/pollute them you are killing off adorable penguins, whom we only love because they can dance, and sing.
Why It's Toxic Waste In A Biodegradable Wrapper:Animals are awesome because they can do tricks for us. Ugly animals who can't dance are so screwed.
Highest Point of Contamination: When people send the main character penguin back to his homeland after it's discovered he can dance. Never in a million years would this happen. That poor thing would be electrocuted and put on the stage to dance for the masses at $100 a pop, until he died of exhaustion.
Movie Message: You are a fat, disgusting, lazy slob. And you're going to ruin everything. Also consumerism is eeeeevil.
Why It's Toxic Waste In A Biodegradable Wrapper: It's really not, it's a great film, it's that the message about us being lazy polluters is a little ham-fisted.
Highest Point of Contamination: The tidal wave of cartilage-based nubbin flesh fatties in the very end. Little much, Pixar. But I still think this is a great movie. Plus they really thought out how the human species would slowly dissolve into floating consumer blobs who will do whatever they are told.
The Happening
Movie Message: The plants are going to kill you because you are killing them, in a group, angry at your possibly unfaithful wife, or any other reason that M. Night Shyamalan can think of to make his characters kill themselves in laughably hysterical manners. Let's not forget the lion death sequence.
Why It's Toxic Waste In A Biodegradable Wrapper: Besides the fact that Mark Wahlberg is such a ludicrous actor that any response he has to anything overturns the seriousness of the "subject matter." The subject matter itself makes absolutely no sense. We really don't know why the plants are killing humans, or when plants suddenly decided to grow the ability to discern different human emotions. Then the main characters have to run away from the wind - the wind! The whole movie is a confusing pile of garbage.
Highest Point of Contamination: Everything. Every single moment in this movie is tainted. Here's a collection of some of the low points from this film.
Earth Day-esque Movies We Recommend:
Night of the Lepus and Black Sheep
Experimenting on animals is wrong. Especially when that means you could turn into a blood thirsty half sheep, half human monster. Learn why we must respect animals and their natural habitat the right way. By watching animals mutate into killing machines with sharp pointy fangs.
The Planet of The Apes
Nuclear War is bad, unless that means the apes get to take over and you get a hot bikini model bride, then it's pretty win-win for everyone, if you can survive the fall out. But in all honesty, nothing tops the big reveal at the end of the original Apes. Plus, not only does it make you want to be nicer to our simian brothers, but it makes you think twice about pushing the big red button. You can't hug with nuclear arms, you guys.
Princess Mononoke
Besides the fact that Hayao Miyazaki's Princess kicks so much ass, her friendly forest pals are the things sweet acid dreams are made of. This film doesn't take deforestation lightly, and it's war on the Tataraba mining company, motherfuckers. I'll be on team green if it means I get to ride a giant wolf into battle, any day.
The Toxic Avenger
In all actuality this movie makes me want to pollute, because how else am I going to bring this hilarious monster/superhero to life? But on the flip side, Toxie doesn't take kindly to polluters, so it's probably best to keep our act clean. Don't litter, kids, or the Toxic Avenger will rip your arms off.


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Summary: Uncharacterised protein family (UPF0203)
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This family of proteins is functionally uncharacterised.
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This tab holds annotation information from the InterPro database.
InterPro entry IPR007918
This is a family of small highly conserved proteins. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Baker's yeast) the gene YKL053C-A (MDM35) SWISSPROT is one of the genes essential for maintenance of normal mitochondrial distribution and morphology (MDM) [ PUBMED:11907266 ]; wherease in Homo sapiens (Human), p53CSV, SWISSPROT is a direct transcriptional target for p53 and appears to be a cell-survival mediator in response to genotoxic stress including low-levels of DNA damage. It is suggested that p53CSV modulates the apoptotic pathway through interaction with HSP70 and Apaf-1 thereby inhibiting activation of procaspase-3 and procaspase-9 [ PUBMED:15735003 ].
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- the number of residues in the sequence
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Note that you can see the family page for a particular domain by clicking on the graphic. You can also choose to see all sequences which have a given architecture by clicking on the Show link in each row.
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We store a range of different sequence alignments for families. As well as the seed alignment from which the family is built, we provide the full alignment, generated by searching the sequence database (reference proteomes) using the family HMM. We also generate alignments using four representative proteomes (RP) sets and the UniProtKB sequence database. More...
There are various ways to view or download the sequence alignments that we store. We provide several sequence viewers and a plain-text Stockholm-format file for download.
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We make a range of alignments for each Pfam-A family:
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- alignment generated by searching the UniProtKB sequence database using the family HMM
You can see the alignments as HTML or in three different sequence viewers:
- jalview
- a Java applet developed at the University of Dundee. You will need Java installed before running jalview
- an HTML page showing the whole alignment.Please note: full Pfam alignments can be very large. These HTML views are extremely large and often cause problems for browsers. Please use either jalview or the Pfam viewer if you have trouble viewing the HTML version
- PP/Heatmap
- an HTML-based representation of the alignment, coloured according to the posterior-probability (PP) values from the HMM. As for the standard HTML view, heatmap alignments can also be very large and slow to render.
You can download (or view in your browser) a text representation of a Pfam alignment in various formats:
- Selex
- Stockholm
You can also change the order in which sequences are listed in the alignment, change how insertions are represented, alter the characters that are used to represent gaps in sequences and, finally, choose whether to download the alignment or to view it in your browser directly.
You may find that large alignments cause problems for the viewers and the reformatting tool, so we also provide all alignments in Stockholm format. You can download either the plain text alignment, or a gzipped version of it.
View options
We make a range of alignments for each Pfam-A family. You can see a description of each above. You can view these alignments in various ways but please note that some types of alignment are never generated while others may not be available for all families, most commonly because the alignments are too large to handle.
|Representative proteomes
1Cannot generate PP/Heatmap alignments for seeds; no PP data available
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We make all of our alignments available in Stockholm format. You can download them here as raw, plain text files or as gzip-compressed files.
|Representative proteomes
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You can also download a FASTA format file containing the full-length sequences for all sequences in the full alignment.
HMM logo
HMM logos is one way of visualising profile HMMs. Logos provide a quick overview of the properties of an HMM in a graphical form. You can see a more detailed description of HMM logos and find out how you can interpret them here. More...
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This page displays the phylogenetic tree for this family's seed alignment. We use FastTree to calculate neighbour join trees with a local bootstrap based on 100 resamples (shown next to the tree nodes). FastTree calculates approximately-maximum-likelihood phylogenetic trees from our seed alignment.
Note: You can also download the data file for the tree.
Curation and family details
This section shows the detailed information about the Pfam family. You can see the definitions of many of the terms in this section in the glossary and a fuller explanation of the scoring system that we use in the scores section of the help pages.
|Seed source:
|Previous IDs:
|Sequence Ontology:
|Bateman A
|Number in seed:
|Number in full:
|Average length of the domain:
|69.6 aa
|Average identity of full alignment:
|35 %
|Average coverage of the sequence by the domain:
|59.05 %
HMM information
|HMM build commands:
build method: hmmbuild -o /dev/null HMM SEED
search method: hmmsearch -Z 61295632 -E 1000 --cpu 4 HMM pfamseq
|Model details:
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This visualisation provides a simple graphical representation of the distribution of this family across species. You can find the original interactive tree in the adjacent tab. More...
This chart is a modified "sunburst" visualisation of the species tree for this family. It shows each node in the tree as a separate arc, arranged radially with the superkingdoms at the centre and the species arrayed around the outermost ring.
How the sunburst is generated
The tree is built by considering the taxonomic lineage of each sequence that has a match to this family. For each node in the resulting tree, we draw an arc in the sunburst. The radius of the arc, its distance from the root node at the centre of the sunburst, shows the taxonomic level ("superkingdom", "kingdom", etc). The length of the arc represents either the number of sequences represented at a given level, or the number of species that are found beneath the node in the tree. The weighting scheme can be changed using the sunburst controls.
In order to reduce the complexity of the representation, we reduce the number of taxonomic levels that we show. We consider only the following eight major taxonomic levels:
- superkingdom
- kingdom
- phylum
- class
- order
- family
- genus
- species
Colouring and labels
Segments of the tree are coloured approximately according to their superkingdom. For example, archeal branches are coloured with shades of orange, eukaryotes in shades of purple, etc. The colour assignments are shown under the sunburst controls. Where space allows, the name of the taxonomic level will be written on the arc itself.
As you move your mouse across the sunburst, the current node will be highlighted. In the top section of the controls panel we show a summary of the lineage of the currently highlighed node. If you pause over an arc, a tooltip will be shown, giving the name of the taxonomic level in the title and a summary of the number of sequences and species below that node in the tree.
Anomalies in the taxonomy tree
There are some situations that the sunburst tree cannot easily handle and for which we have work-arounds in place.
Missing taxonomic levels
Some species in the taxonomic tree may not have one or more of the main eight levels that we display. For example, Bos taurus is not assigned an order in the NCBI taxonomic tree. In such cases we mark the omitted level with, for example, "No order", in both the tooltip and the lineage summary.
Unmapped species names
The tree is built by looking at each sequence in the full alignment for the family. We take the name of the species given by UniProt and try to map that to the full taxonomic tree from NCBI. In some cases, the name chosen by UniProt does not map to any node in the NCBI tree, perhaps because the chosen name is listed as a synonym or a misspelling in the NCBI taxonomy.
So that these nodes are not simply omitted from the sunburst tree, we group them together in a separate branch (or segment of the sunburst tree). Since we cannot determine the lineage for these unmapped species, we show all levels between the superkingdom and the species as "uncategorised".
Since we reduce the species tree to only the eight main taxonomic levels, sequences that are mapped to the sub-species level in the tree would not normally be shown. Rather than leave out these species, we map them instead to their parent species. So, for example, for sequences belonging to one of the Vibrio cholerae sub-species in the NCBI taxonomy, we show them instead as belonging to the species Vibrio cholerae.
Too many species/sequences
For large species trees, you may see blank regions in the outer layers of the sunburst. These occur when there are large numbers of arcs to be drawn in a small space. If an arc is less than approximately one pixel wide, it will not be drawn and the space will be left blank. You may still be able to get some information about the species in that region by moving your mouse across the area, but since each arc will be very small, it will be difficult to accurately locate a particular species.
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We show the species tree in one of two ways. For smaller trees we try to show an interactive representation, which allows you to select specific nodes in the tree and view them as an alignment or as a set of Pfam domain graphics.
Unfortunately we have found that there are problems viewing the interactive tree when the it becomes larger than a certain limit. Furthermore, we have found that Internet Explorer can become unresponsive when viewing some trees, regardless of their size. We therefore show a text representation of the species tree when the size is above a certain limit or if you are using Internet Explorer to view the site.
If you are using IE you can still load the interactive tree by clicking the "Generate interactive tree" button, but please be aware of the potential problems that the interactive species tree can cause.
Interactive tree
For all of the domain matches in a full alignment, we count the number that are found on all sequences in the alignment. This total is shown in the purple box.
We also count the number of unique sequences on which each domain is found, which is shown in green. Note that a domain may appear multiple times on the same sequence, leading to the difference between these two numbers.
Finally, we group sequences from the same organism according to the NCBI code that is assigned by UniProt, allowing us to count the number of distinct sequences on which the domain is found. This value is shown in the pink boxes.
We use the NCBI species tree to group organisms according to their taxonomy and this forms the structure of the displayed tree. Note that in some cases the trees are too large (have too many nodes) to allow us to build an interactive tree, but in most cases you can still view the tree in a plain text, non-interactive representation. Those species which are represented in the seed alignment for this domain are highlighted.
You can use the tree controls to manipulate how the interactive tree is displayed:
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- save a plain text representation of the tree
Please note: for large trees this can take some time. While the tree is loading, you can safely switch away from this tab but if you browse away from the family page entirely, the tree will not be loaded.
For those sequences which have a structure in the Protein DataBank, we use the mapping between UniProt, PDB and Pfam coordinate systems from the PDBe group, to allow us to map Pfam domains onto UniProt sequences and three-dimensional protein structures. The table below shows the structures on which the UPF0203 domain has been found. There are 37 instances of this domain found in the PDB. Note that there may be multiple copies of the domain in a single PDB structure, since many structures contain multiple copies of the same protein sequence.
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AlphaFold Structure Predictions
The list of proteins below match this family and have AlphaFold predicted structures. Click on the protein accession to view the predicted structure.


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|LivingSocial offer on 9/14/12 (price is actually $97 - I have $40 credit in my account)
I was worried when I first saw it that some people may mistake this for the AncestryDNA test due to the headline. Exactly as I feared, I starting seeing messages on mailing lists from people that were under the impression that this was a way of purchasing one of the "invitation only" AncestryDNA tests. (The AncestryDNA test is now out of Beta and you can order here.) I mentioned this to Ken Chahine, General Manager at AncestryDNA, because I was afraid that some people might be tricked into buying this test due to of the misleading way it was presented and then stay away from genetic genealogy after a bad experience.
Today, I noticed that the offer looks different.
|LivingSocial offer on 9/18/12
I'm not sure when they changed it, but I am bothered by the fact that upwards of 443 AncestrybyDNA tests have been purchased in the interim. When they offered the same deal in July of this year, you can see that there were significantly less takers (only 81).
|LivingSocial offer on 7/28/12
Is this increase due to the heightened visibility and popularity of the AncestryDNA test during this time? It wouldn't surprise me a bit if that is the case.
AncestrybyDNA is a test that has been around for a long time. It is an autosomal DNA test, but not by any means the same as the new autosomal AncestryDNA test. It is a biogeographical ancestry analysis which is based on only 176 markers, while in stark contrast, the AncestryDNA test is based on 700,000 markers. Further, the AncestrybyDNA test does not have any relative finder capabilities, which, in my opinion, is currently the strongest aspect of the AncestryDNA test.
The FAQs on the AncestrybyDNA website states, "The AncestrybyDNA™ test provides your ancestral proportions based on years of collaborative research of populations representing 4 ancestral groups. This research identified 176 informative markers in our DNA, called Ancestry Informative Markers (AIMs)." The FAQs on the AncestryDNA site explain, "The AncestryDNA test uses microarray-based autosomal DNA testing, which surveys a person's entire genome at over 700,000 locations, all with a simple saliva sample. Additionally, the new online interface integrates state-of-the art tools for you to utilize your DNA results for family history research."
The description on the LivingSocial ad is as follows:
I think this description is also a bit misleading. The AncestrybyDNA test is based on old technology by today's standards and is not useful for genealogical purposes. While possibly of entertainment value, to say that it will test "your complete ancestral makeup" and give you results on "your full ancestry" is really stretching it.
I have nothing against AncestrybyDNA and I'm a fan and customer of LivingSocial, but if you bought this offer thinking you were getting an AncestryDNA test from Ancestry.com, I would write to LivingSocial and ask for a refund. Fair is fair.
**Update - 1/21/13 - This offer is back again. After receiving a lot of very negative feedback about this test and the disappointment caused by it, I would like to suggest that if you are considering purchasing it, please do your research and review these four other geographic origin DNA tests that I recommend instead. (Personally, I like 23andMe and at $99 it is only $2 more than the AncestrybyDNA Living Social offer. You will get MUCH more detailed, useful results from that test.)
**Update- as of 9/26/12, almost 4000 tests have been sold through this promotion.
|LivingSocial offer on 9/26/2012


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China Post Tracking. Track & Trace Parcel
China Post is the national post service of the People's Republic of China. The organization provides services for the delivery of various mailings, both within China and in international directions.
China Post is constantly developing, increasing the number of international strategic partners, and this allows more efficient distribution of mail loads.
The main customers of China Post are small shops located on the trading platforms of such Internet giants as AliExpress, eBay, TaoBao, and others.
China Post uses a variety of shipping methods: Water, Air, and Land transportation. There are two types of postal items: trackable, called China Post Registered Air Mail, and untrackable, called China Post Unregistered. China Post is considered to be one of the busiest postal services in the world, so delivery times to international destinations may vary from one week to several months.
The package could be tracked in 1-3 days after registering its identifier at China Post. The stores usually issue track codes at once, but send a package to the post a few days later, along with a large shipment.
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Using our service, you can always quickly and easily track the movement of your mail in English. China Post Tracking simultaneously tracks the movement of all carriers involved in the delivery of the parcel and provides accurate information about the location of your shipment.
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Fast Shipping from China to the USA or what is China Post EMS EUB (ePacket)?
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The usual delivery time is from two to five weeks, but during the season with the peak load of the mail carrier, the shipment can take up to 60 days.
China Post Ordinary Small Packet Plus packages can be tracked from our website - China Post Tracking. However, you should not forget that this type of shipment after crossing the border with China is often not tracked. This is indicated by the letter "U" (Unregistered) in the tracking code of your package. Examples of tracking codes: are UT000000000CN, UP000000000CN, and others.
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China Post Registered Air Mail is one of the most popular, convenient, and reliable types of delivery of small parcels with a weight not exceeding two kilograms. Such small packages are delivered worldwide (about 180+ countries) by Air.
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The average time for which a parcel reaches the addressee is 3 to 6 weeks. At best, and provided that it is a busy time (season), your package can arrive in just two weeks.
Some major trading platforms, such as AliExpress, guarantee a refund for China Post items that have not arrived within 60 days.
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- the sender made a mistake and gave you an incorrect tracking number.
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- the parcel was sent using a low-cost delivery service ("China Post Unregistered" or "China Post Ordinary Small Packet Plus"), in this case, the parcel will be tracked only within China.
Solution: In the future, send parcels in other ways that involve tracking the entire route of the parcel;
- the parcel number was registered, but the post office did not receive the parcel itself (the seller did not deliver the parcel to the post office, but only reserved a virtual number in the system).
Solution: check with your seller/store - when it is going to transport your package to the post office and depending on the answer wait 2-3 days to 2 weeks;
- the parcel is delayed at customs.
Solution: Contact your seller (sender), and then your local customs office. If you have not received the notification from Customs, you can check the information by phone;
- the parcel is lost.
Solution: contact the sender of the parcel and learn about further actions. In most cases, you will not incur losses.
What Should I do if my Parcel Address is Incorrect? Can China Post Change my Address?
Sometimes it happens that an incorrect delivery address is specified when ordering. This happens either simply by mistake, or when there was no error, but you need to change the delivery address to another one due to relocation or other reasons.
China Post can not change the address. Changing the delivery address is only possible if the parcel has not yet been sent by Post Office, but is still physically in the seller's possession. For this purpose, contact the seller and ask for changes in the address.
What happens if the package goes to the wrong address?
- If the address exists, the parcel will reach the address.
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If you have moved to a new place of residence and the package has arrived at the old address (as you ordered), you will probably have to follow it yourself or ask someone to collect it for you.
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WASHINGTON — Four years ago, Barack Obama's swearing-in drew a record crowd to the National Mall. There were 1.8 million people eager to witness history: the country's first black president taking the oath of office.
Now, as Obama prepares for his second-term kickoff, the capital is pre-occupied with a looming economic crisis, exit from war and a reshuffling in Congress. Ticket demand is lower. Hotels are far from booked. And from Capitol Hill to the White House, the upcoming festivities seem to be barely on anyone's radar.
More muted inaugural celebrations are typical with every second presidential term. But it's almost as if Obama's swearing-in, on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, is a been-there-done-that afterthought around town.
Perhaps Obama is a victim of his own historical significance. Perhaps it's a sign of how far the nation has come, some 50 years after the March on Washington that drew a multitude of people calling for civil and economic rights for African-Americans.
Although inaugural planning and preparations are well under way, Obama's advisers say they aren't yet focusing on the swearing-in as they negotiate over the "fiscal cliff" automatic tax increases and budget cuts that will occur in January unless the White House reaches a compromise with Congress. Party planners haven't made even the most basic of announcements yet, such as who will serve on Obama's inaugural committee and how they will raise money. No plans are in the works for a star-studded concert like the one four years ago that kicked off the inaugural festivities.
The inauguration is thought of so little these days that there was even some confusion around the White House about when it would be held. Some aides said it would be Tuesday, Jan. 22, after the federal holiday observing King's birthday.
In fact, the public ceremony will be on the holiday, Monday, Jan. 21 — a day set by a joint resolution of Congress months ago, before it was known who would be taking the oath. Obama's second term automatically begins at noon on Jan. 20 under the 20th Amendment to the Constitution, and he's planning a private swearing-in at the White House.
There's precedent for the two-pronged approach: The public ceremony in the past has been postponed for a day when Jan. 20 fell on a Sunday, such as the second inaugurations for Presidents Ronald Reagan and Dwight Eisenhower.
The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, which stages all activities for the day on the Capitol grounds, has set a theme of "Faith in America's Future" to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Capitol Dome during the Civil War. And work has begun on the platform where Obama will deliver his inaugural address. It will be the same design as in 2005 and 2009. It has 1,600 seats for members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, governors, ambassadors representing nations around the world, military leaders and the families of the president and vice president.
Beyond that, the planning is at such a preliminary stage that members of the Presidential Inaugural Committee haven't been officially announced. They include some of the same staffers who worked on Obama's campaign and his first inauguration. Those involved this year say to expect a similar celebration as 2009, but smaller.
Now like then, it will be up to Obama to set the tone for the day, an important moment for him to capture the world's attention in the midst of a vigorous debate over the country's economic future, a looming fight over immigration and conflicts across the globe.
Congressional offices will distribute roughly 250,000 tickets for people to watch in front of the podium, with members of the public able to attend without tickets down the National Mall.
Demand for tickets is predictably down on Capitol Hill.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who oversaw the congressional inaugural committee four years ago, introduced legislation back then trying to prevent scalping of the free tickets online. She said her office received 8,000 requests for tickets the first day after the 2008 election. This time, her spokeswoman said she's received 8,500 a month later.
Last time, the ticketed crowd included scores of celebrities, with Oprah Winfrey, MTV and Nickelodeon holding special broadcasts from the capital city. An inaugural weekend concert at the Lincoln Memorial in 2009 featured appearances by Bruce Springsteen, Bono, Beyonce, Stevie Wonder, Jamie Foxx and Tiger Woods. No such event is planned this time.
Questions remain about how the inaugural committee will handle fundraising to put on the parade, balls and other celebratory events.
Four years ago, the committee tried to make good on Obama's campaign promise to change the way business is done in Washington by refusing contributions from corporations, unions, political action committees and lobbyists and by limiting individual donations to $50,000. But some on his team want to lift that self-imposed restriction this year to make fundraising easier at a time when there's less hype to fuel it.
Those who want to attend will find an easier time than those who came four years ago, starting with greater hotel availability.
At this time in 2008, 89 percent of rooms in Washington were rented at an average rate of $605 a night, according to Smith Travel Research. At least some desperate travelers resorted to camping outside in the winter cold or trying to find a couch for rent. This time, hundreds of ads on Craig's List offered space for rent and hotels were still hawking their rooms, albeit at inflated prices with four-night minimums.
The Ritz Carlton, which sold out within a week of Election Day in 2008, still had nearly half its 300 rooms available a month after Obama's re-election, putting this year on par with typical inaugural bookings.
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Accounting and financial reporting consume nearly one-third of the average family office's time, according to a new report from Family Office Exchange.
"Financial Reporting in the Family Office: Elevating the Conversation," which was developed by FOX in conjunction with Advent Software, includes these key findings:
- 80% of family offices provide clients with quarterly financial reports.
- 51% provide a consolidated annual report.
- 67% still provide clients with hard copy reports even as family offices are increasingly exploring secure online solutions for the distribution of financial information.
Also included in the report are several case studies suggesting that the most successful reporting ties the numbers back to family goals by taking into consideration such things as client objectives, audience sophistication, timing and preferred method of delivery.
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DENVER – The Denver Broncos and Atlanta Falcons, who tied for the league's best record at 13-3, are well aware of one of the NFL's biggest truisms: more often than not, the regular season is for suckers.
Over the last decade, just two of the 13 teams that had the best regular season record — or tied for the best mark — went on to win the Super Bowl: the '02 Buccaneers and the '03 Patriots.
The last eight teams to enter the playoffs with the best record bowed out before they could put their fingerprints on the Lombardi Trophy and revel in a rain of confetti.
Both the Broncos and Falcons are promising to practice like champions this week and not allow rest and relaxation to turn into rust and ruin.
In the last seven seasons, three No. 6 seeds and a No. 4 seed ended up winning it all, giving hope to the likes of the Ravens, Redskins, Bengals and Vikings in this year's playoff pool.
A year ago, the Green Bay Packers rested their regulars in the season finale and they lost their edge, becoming the first 15-1 team to lose its first playoff game — to a New York Giants team that was 7-7 in mid-December and went on to win it all.
"That's kind of what it was for us when I was in Indy," Broncos wide receiver Brandon Stokley said of the '05 Colts, who went 14-2 but lost to Pittsburgh in the divisional round. "We kind of rested the last week, then we had a bye. It's too much. So, I like just grinding every week, just playing football."
That's exactly what Peyton Manning's new team did, securing the AFC's top seed Sunday with its 11th straight win.
Along with the Falcons, Patriots and 49ers, the Broncos get a break this week, one that can prove a pitfall as much as a profit.
"We've just got to practice like we're playing this week," Denver receiver Eric Decker said.
While the Broncos stormed into the playoffs, the Falcons, who already had the NFC's top seed secured, didn't gain any momentum Sunday, losing to Tampa Bay.
"Before this game was played, we were the No. 1 seed in the playoffs, at the end of the game, nothing has changed," Falcons tight end Tony Gonzalez reasoned. "We're a very good team; we'll just use this as a wake-up call."
Says another Atlanta veteran, Asante Samuel: "We're going to practice like champs. And we're going to play like champs from now on."
So will the Broncos. Coach John Fox is using the bye week to stay sharp, calling for short, crisp practices on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and a mandatory weightlifting session Saturday, mainly to keep the team "focused, not concerned with flights to other states and those type of things, especially close states."
Like Nevada, where oddsmakers have made the Broncos the favorite to win the Super Bowl.
Of course, the Packers were in this position last year.
It's not just the NFL where the season's best team usually falters in the playoffs.
In the last 10 seasons, only two teams in each of the other major pro sports leagues parlayed the best regular-season record into a championship, according to STATS, LLC. They were: the 2007 Red Sox and the '09 Yankees, the 2002-03 Spurs and the '07-08 Celtics and the Red Wings in 2001-02 and '07-08.
Since the first Super Bowl, the team with the best regular-season record has won just 21 of 46 championships, or 46 percent, which is more than in the NHL (42 percent), NBA (41 percent) and MLB (28 percent), according to STATS.
"Everyone wants to have the best record, win the division and play at home for the playoffs, but in my opinion, the team that is playing the best has the best opportunity," said NFL Network analyst Kurt Warner, a former MVP and Super Bowl champion. "This game is always about confidence and momentum. If you have it, you're tough to beat, nobody wants to play you and it gives you a distinct advantage. It starts in the regular season and you want to be playing well down the stretch."
With that in mind, here's how the dozen playoff teams rank from hottest to coolest:
1. Broncos (13-3) — They haven't lost since a 31-21 setback at New England on Oct. 7, before Manning got his bearings and found a comfort zone with his new teammates.
2. Redskins (10-6) — They've won seven straight games since coach Mike Shanahan's comments about playing for next year (well, it is 2013 now!) after a loss to Carolina on Nov. 4 dropped them to 3-6.
3. Patriots (12-4) — Their only loss in their last 10 games was to San Francisco two weeks ago that snapped their 21-game home winning streak in December. Even in defeat, Tom Brady was spectacular as New England nearly became the first team since 1980 to win a game after trailing by 28.
4. Seahawks (11-5) — Forget the "Fail Mary" touchdown/touchback ending that gave Seattle a disputed win over the Packers in Week 3 and hastened the return of the regular officials. The real robbery was the selection of QB Russell Wilson in the third round of the draft. He's guided them to five straight wins.
5. Bengals (10-6) — Cincinnati matched the best finish in club history, winning seven of its last eight games behind Andy Dalton and A.J. Green, who will now try to secure the Bengals' first playoff win since 1990.
6. Colts (11-5) — Indy won nine of its last 11 despite a soft defense, rallying around assistant coach Bruce Arians, who took over while coach Chuck Pagano was treated for leukemia. Pagano is back and the Colts have gotten over their breakup with Manning and moved on with rookie Andrew Luck.
7. Packers (11-5) — Green Bay won nine of its last 11 but couldn't close out the season with a win at Minnesota that would have ensured them a first-round bye. Maybe that's a good thing for a team that won it all as a wild card two years ago.
8. Vikings (10-6) — Although Adrian Peterson came up just short of breaking Eric Dickerson's single season rushing record, he carried the Vikings into the playoffs with wins in their last four games.
9. 49ers (11-4-1) — San Francisco lost to division rivals St. Louis and Seattle in December, but Colin Kaepernick and Michael Crabtree put the 49ers into the playoffs with some much-needed momentum with dazzling performances in a win over Arizona on Sunday.
10. Falcons (13-3) — Atlanta lost two of its last four, but they didn't rest their regulars Sunday, when they lost to the Buccaneers and also lost two key defensive players to injuries in pass-rusher John Abraham and cornerback Dunta Robinson.
11. Ravens (10-6) — Baltimore lost four of its last five and changed offensive coordinators in December. The Ravens used their regular-season finale at Cincy to rest their regulars, sitting banged-up playmakers Anquan Boldin, Haloti Ngata and Terrell Suggs while pulling Joe Flacco and Ray Rice after only two series.
12. Texans (12-4) — For much of the year, they were the NFL's darlings behind J.J. Watt, Andre Johnson and Arian Foster, but they caved in December, losing three of their last four and falling from the top seed in the AFC to the third. Instead of a bye week to rest up, they get a short week to play Cincinnati.
All of this isn't to say the hottest team will be crowed champion or the coolest one has no shot.
"I think there are a lot of formulas," Fox said. "If you look at history, there are plenty of different scenarios. At the end of the day, you want to be playing your best football in January so you can get to February. That's really the only formula I know that's 100 percent."
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"Oh, Jesus. Oh, no," Faye Schwartz said she looked over damage in neighborhood in Brooklyn, where cars were scattered like leaves.
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Jersey City was closed to cars because traffic lights were out, and Hoboken, just over the Hudson River from Manhattan, dealt with major flooding. In Atlantic City, most of the world-famous boardwalk was intact, but pieces washed away Monday night.
Remnants of the hurricane were forecast to head across Pennsylvania before taking another sharp turn into western New York by Wednesday morning. Although weakening as it goes, the storm will continue to bring heavy rain and flooding, said Daniel Brown of the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
As Hurricane Sandy closed in on the Northeast, it converged with a cold-weather system that turned it into a monstrous hybrid of rain, high wind — and even snow in West Virginia and other mountainous areas inland.
In a measure of how big the storm was, high winds spinning off the edge of Sandy clobbered the Cleveland area early Tuesday, uprooting trees, cutting power to hundreds of thousands, closing schools and flooding major roads along Lake Erie.
Hundreds of miles from the storm's center, gusts topping 60 mph prompted officials to close the port of Portland, Maine, and scared away several cruise ships.
Just before it made landfall at 8 p.m. near Atlantic City, N.J., forecasters stripped Sandy of hurricane status, but the distinction was purely technical, based on its shape and internal temperature.
While the hurricane's 80 mph winds registered as only a Category 1 on a scale of five, it packed the lowest barometric pressure on record in the Northeast, giving it terrific energy to push water inland.
President Barack Obama declared a major disaster in the city and Long Island. The storm brought the presidential campaign to a halt with a week to go before Election Day.
In New York, the construction crane atop a 1,000-foot, $1.5 billion luxury high-rise in midtown Manhattan dangled for a second day while authorities tried to figure out how to secure it. Thousands were ordered to leave nearby buildings as a precaution, including 900 guests at the ultramodern Le Parker Meridien hotel.
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An explosion Monday night at a substation for Consolidated Edison, the main utility service New York City, knocked out power to about 310,000 customers in Manhattan.
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Apple will probably lift its quarterly dividend 56% to $4.14 a share, for an annual payout of $15.7 billion, according to a survey of analysts by Bloomberg. The resulting yield of 3.7% would be higher than 86% of the companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index paying dividends.
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