Automated scoring of AFLPs using RawGeno v 2.0, a free R CRAN library.

Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphisms (AFLPs) are a cheap and efficient protocol for generating large sets of genetic markers. This technique has become increasingly used during the last decade in various fields of biology, including population genomics, phylogeography, and genome mapping. Here, we present RawGeno, an R library dedicated to the automated scoring of AFLPs (i.e., the coding of electropherogram signals into ready-to-use datasets). Our program includes a complete suite of tools for binning, editing, visualizing, and exporting results obtained from AFLP experiments. RawGeno can either be used with command lines and program analysis routines or through a user-friendly graphical user interface. We describe the whole RawGeno pipeline along with recommendations for (a) setting the analysis of electropherograms in combination with PeakScanner, a program freely distributed by Applied Biosystems; (b) performing quality checks; (c) defining bins and proceeding to scoring; (d) filtering nonoptimal bins; and (e) exporting results in different formats.

Iowa Library Services/State Library Update, November 2012, Vol. 10, no. 3

Quarterly update for Iowa Library Services/State Library patrons.

Audit report on the City of Council Bluffs, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2012

Audit report on the City of Council Bluffs, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2012

Audit report on the Council Bluffs Airport Authority for the year ended June 30, 2012

Audit report on the Council Bluffs Airport Authority for the year ended June 30, 2012

Iowa Autism Council; Priories Moving Iowa Forward, 2012

Department of Education should continue data collection regarding quality educational services for ASD students in Iowa. The council requires adequate data to continue to make sound recommendations on system improvements for Iowa students.

Iowa Autism Council; Priories Moving Iowa Forward, 2011

Department of Education should continue data collection regarding quality educational services for ASD students in Iowa. The council requires adequate data to continue to make sound recommendations on system improvements for Iowa students.

Iowa Autism Council By-Laws and Operating Procedures, Revised 2012

These By-laws and Operating Procedures are designed to guide the membership and work of the Iowa Autism Council. The Iowa Autism Council is a collaborative resource that envisions its role as an advocate for children and adults living with Autism Spectrum Disorder (autism and Asperger's and other conditions represented on the autism spectrum) and their families. As such, it is committed to representing individuals with diverse and changing educational needs. Iowa Autism Council (IAC) shall have, and will perform, functions and duties as specified by law. Responsibilities include offering advice, consultation, and recommendations to Governor Culver and the Iowa legislature regarding matters concerning the ASD population. The role of the Council members is to advise, not advocate, for an individual position. Advise means to inform, counsel, recommend, suggest or guide. To advocate means to plead for your case or position, to favor an individual case or argument. The advisory Council is to provide advice, based on facts and good judgment.

The Iowa Autism Council, August 7, 2012

Expansion of Medicaid under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Iowa Library Services/State Library Update, February 2013, Vol. 11, no. 1

Quarterly update for Iowa Library Services/State Library patrons.

Library buildings : Selection of an architect ... A paper read before the Iowa Library Association at Grinnell, Iowa. October 30, 1902.

This leaflet, no. 7, by Grant C. Miller, of Patton & Miller Architects in Chicago, contains information on how to plan the erection of a new library building. It discusses how to select a librarian, architect, location and surroundings design and layout needed to best serve the library users.

Opportunities for a lifetime / Iowa State University University Library, 2008.

Includes information on the Iowa State University Academic Library and the resources, services and facilities that if offers.

Iowa Library Services/State Library Update, March 2013, Vol. 11, no. 2

Quarterly update for Iowa Library Services/State Library patrons.

Audit report on the Chariton Valley Planning & Development Council of Governments in Centerville, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2012

Audit report on the Chariton Valley Planning & Development Council of Governments in Centerville, Iowa for the year ended June 30, 2012

Audit report on the Iowa Egg Council for the years ended June 30, 2012 and 2011

Audit report on the Iowa Egg Council for the years ended June 30, 2012 and 2011

A LIBRARY IN THE MAKING: Pioneer History of the Territorial and State Library of Iowa,October 1912

The discovery of early manuscript reports of Territorial and State Librarians, buried in the mass of old official papers transferred from the several departments of State to the new Department of Archives in the Historical Building, has suggested the propriety of completing as far as possible, the historical record of Iowa's State Library, "from the earliest period to the present time." After a thorough research through the papers on file in the Archives Department, the published Journals and departmental reports in the State Library and documents and private papers loaned me by Mr. Newton R. Parvin, librarian of the Iowa Masonic Library, Cedar Rapids. I am now able to present the following historical sketch, Supplemented by the hitherto unpublished papers referred to this filling a gap in the history of a State institution which from very small beginnings has grown to large proportions and has made for itself a firm place in the respect and esteem of every citizen of Iowa.