Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Photograph of a plaque about the founding of the Anderson Baptist Church in Anderson, Texas.

Photograph of a plaque about the formation of the Baptist State Convention of Texas in Anderson, Texas. Buildings are visible in the background.

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Photograph of a blue sign marking the 100 block of E Buffington Avenue in Anderson, Texas. A building is visible in the background.

Semiweekly newspaper from Boerne, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Photograph of several buildings near a road in Anderson, Texas. A sign on a stand to the right reads, "Historic Anderson Park".

Photograph of several cars parked in front of three buildings in Anderson, Texas. The building to the left is a probation office, and the middle building is the office of an attorney-at-law.

Photograph of cars parked in front of several stores, including Courthouse Antiques, in Anderson, Texas.

Photograph of several cars parked in front of a wooden building with a stone chimney in Anderson, Texas. There are several trees in front of the building.

Photograph of a row of cars parked in front of several buildings in Anderson, Texas. The road is visible to the right.

Photograph of carved door handle on a white wooden door in the Grimes County courthouse in Anderson, Texas.

Photograph of the detailed ceiling inside the Grimes County courthouse in Anderson, Texas. Lamps are mounted on both walls, and a staircase is visible in the background.

Photograph of a close-up of carved hinges on a white door in the Grimes County courthouse in Anderson, Texas.

Photograph of two elaborately carved door knobs on the Grimes County courthouse in Anderson, Texas.

Photograph of a close-up of a Texas Historical Commission plaque about the construction of the Grimes County courthouse in Anderson, Texas. It is mounted on the red brick wall next to the courthouse door.

Photograph of a close-up of a lamp with two branches mounted on the wall in a building in Anderson, Texas.

Photograph of cars in the parking lot next to the Grimes County courthouse in Anderson, Texas.

News release promoting the use of DART transportation options to the NBA All-Star game in Arlington.

This chapter will address some of the many issues associated with the identification of signatures based on genomic DNA/RNA, which can be used to identify and characterize pathogens for biodefense and microbial forensic goals. For the purposes of this chapter, we define a signature as one or more strings of contiguous genomic DNA or RNA bases that are sufficient to identify a pathogenic target of interest at the desired resolution and which could be instantiated with particular detection chemistry on a particular platform. The target may be a whole organism, an individual functional mechanism (e.g., a toxin gene), or simply a nucleic acid indicative of the organism. The desired resolution will vary with each program's goals but could easily range from family to genus to species to strain to isolate. The resolution may not be taxonomically based but rather pan-mechanistic in nature: detecting virulence or antibiotic-resistance genes shared by multiple microbes. Entire industries exist around different detection chemistries and instrument platforms for identification of pathogens, and we will only briefly mention a few of the techniques that we have used at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to support our biosecurity-related work since 2000. Most nucleic acid based detection chemistries involve …

University of North Texas Chamber Choir performance at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall with a guest conductor in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.

Photograph of a door on the second floor exterior of the Grimes County courthouse in Anderson, Texas. Two staircases lead up to the door.

Photograph of an elaborate wooden cabinet with purple flowers on top of it on display in a building in Anderson, Texas.

UNT Chamber Choir performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.