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2008
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Hadamard Conjugation for the Kimura 3ST Model: Combinatorial Proof Using Path Sets
Under a stochastic model of molecular sequence evolution the probability of each possible pattern of characters is well defined. The Kimura's three-substitution-types (K3ST) m...
Michael D. Hendy, Sagi Snir
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2008
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Mixed Integer Linear Programming for Maximum-Parsimony Phylogeny Inference
Reconstruction of phylogenetic trees is a fundamental problem in computational biology. While excellent heuristic methods are available for many variants of this problem, new adva...
Srinath Sridhar, Fumei Lam, Guy E. Blelloch, R. Ra...
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2008
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Coclustering of Human Cancer Microarrays Using Minimum Sum-Squared Residue Coclustering
It is a consensus in microarray analysis that identifying potential local patterns, characterized by coherent groups of genes and conditions, may shed light on the discovery of pre...
Hyuk Cho, Inderjit S. Dhillon
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2008
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PairProSVM: Protein Subcellular Localization Based on Local Pairwise Profile Alignment and SVM
The subcellular locations of proteins are important functional annotations. An effective and reliable subcellular localization method is necessary for proteomics research. This pap...
Man-Wai Mak, Jian Guo, Sun-Yuan Kung
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2008
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DNA Motif Representation with Nucleotide Dependency
The problem of discovering novel motifs of binding sites is important to the understanding of gene regulatory networks. Motifs are generally represented by matrices (PWM or PSSM) o...
Francis Y. L. Chin, Henry C. M. Leung
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2008
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2SNP: Scalable Phasing Method for Trios and Unrelated Individuals
Emerging microarray technologies allow affordable typing of very long genome sequences. A key challenge in analyzing of such huge amount of data is scalable and accurate computatio...
Dumitru Brinza, Alexander Zelikovsky
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2008
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Inferring Connectivity of Genetic Regulatory Networks Using Information-Theoretic Criteria
Recently, the concept of mutual information has been proposed for inferring the structure of genetic regulatory networks from gene expression profiling. After analyzing the limitat...
Wentao Zhao, Erchin Serpedin, Edward R. Dougherty
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2008
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Nature Reserve Selection Problem: A Tight Approximation Algorithm
The Nature Reserve Selection Problem is a problem that arises in the context of studying biodiversity conservation. Subject to budgetary constraints, the problem is to select a set...
Magnus Bordewich, Charles Semple
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2008
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Graphical Models of Residue Coupling in Protein Families
Abstract-- Many statistical measures and algorithmic techniques have been proposed for studying residue coupling in protein families. Generally speaking, two residue positions are ...
John Thomas, Naren Ramakrishnan, Chris Bailey-Kell...
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2008
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Toward Verified Biological Models
The last several decades have witnessed a vast accumulation of biological data and data analysis. Many of these data sets represent only a small fraction of the system's behav...
Avital Sadot, Jasmin Fisher, Dan Barak, Yishai Adm...