Base Visit Trip Report - Former NAS Cecil Field - 2nd Visit - 8/19/05

From: Knapp, Ray, Col, WSO-HSAJCSG Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 10:17 AM To: Warhola, Paul, LtCol, WSO-HSAJCSG; Layman, Andrew, 1stLT, WSO-HSAJCSG

Commissioner's Base Visit Book to Hawthorne Army Depot - 11 Jul 2005

Commissioner's Base Visit Book for Naval Air Station Pensacola Florida

Commissioner's Base Visit Book for Naval Support Activity New Orleans, LA Closure Recommendations

CRS Report for Congress (Order Code RS22144) by Christopher M. Davis. Summary: The recommendations of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission will automatically take effect unless, within a stated period after the recommendations are submitted to the House and Senate, Congress adopts a joint resolution of disapproval rejecting them in their entirety. Congressional consideration of this disapproval resolution is not governed by the regular rules of the House and Senate, but by special expedited or “fast track” procedures laid out in statute. This report describes these expedited parliamentary procedures and explains how they differ from the regular legislative processes of Congress.

Genomes of hundreds of species have been sequenced to date, and many more are being sequenced. As more and more sequence data sets become available, and as the challenge of comparing these massive ''billion basepair DNA sequences'' becomes substantial, so does the need for more powerful tools supporting the exploration of these data sets. Similarity score data used to compare aligned DNA sequences is inherently one-dimensional. One-dimensional (1D) representations of these data sets do not effectively utilize screen real estate. As a result, tools using 1D representations are incapable of providing informatory overview for extremely large data sets. We present a technique to arrange 1D data in 3D space to allow us to apply state-of-the-art interactive volume visualization techniques for data exploration. We demonstrate our technique using multi-millions-basepair-long aligned DNA sequence data and compare it with traditional 1D line plots. The results show that our technique is superior in providing an overview of entire data sets. Our technique, coupled with 1D line plots, results in effective multi-resolution visualization of very large aligned sequence data sets.

This report is about the 2005 BRAC Commission

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