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2007
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Gene Set Enrichment Analysis Using Non-parametric Scores
Abstract. Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) is a well-known technique used for studying groups of functionally related genes and their correlation with phenotype. This method cre...
Ariel E. Bayá, Mónica G. Larese, Pab...
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2007
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Validating Gene Clusterings by Selecting Informative Gene Ontology Terms with Mutual Information
Abstract. We propose a method for global validation of gene clusterings. The method selects a set of informative and non-redundant GO terms through an exploration of the Gene Ontol...
Ivan G. Costa, Marcílio Carlos Pereira de S...
WOB
2003
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Procsimo: uma Ferramenta de Procura de Similaridade entre Operons
In this work, we propose a software tool, called PROCSIMO, which aims the identification of similarities between operons in bacterial genomes. From a database which contains the ch...
Carlos Azevedo, Alexandre Plastino, Ana Tereza R. ...
WOB
2003
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Computing Maximum Subsequence in Parallel
The maximum subsequence problem finds the contiguous subsequence of n real numbers with the highest sum. This is an important problem that arises in several contexts in Computatio...
Carlos E. R. Alves, Edson Cáceres, Siang W....
WOB
2004
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An Agent-Based System for Re-annotation of Genomes
Genome annotation projects may produce wrong results since they may be based on obsolete data or wrong models. This work aims to develop an automatic re-annotation system that use ...
Leonardo Vianna do Nascimento, Ana L. C. Bazzan
WOB
2004
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Reconstruction of Phylogenetic Trees using the Ant Colony Optimization Paradigm
We developed a new approach for the reconstruction of phylogenetic trees using ant colony optimization metaheuristics.Atree is constructed using a fully connected graph and the pro...
Heitor S. Lopes, Mauricio Perretto
WOB
2004
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Reconfigurable Systems for Sequence Alignment and for General Dynamic Programming
ABSTRACT. Reconfigurable systolic arrays can be adapted to efficiently resolve a wide spectrum of computational problems; parallelism is naturally explored in systolic arrays and r...
Ricardo P. Jacobi, Mauricio Ayala-Rincón, L...
WOB
2004
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Mutual Information Content of Homologous DNA Sequences
The necessary information to reproduce and keep an organism is codified in acid nucleic molecules. Deepening the knowledge about how the information is stored in these bio-sequence...
Luciana Pessoa, Helena Cristina da Gama Leit&atild...
WOB
2004
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A Multi-Neighbor-Joining Approach for Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction and Visualization
ABSTRACT. The computationally challenging problem of reconstructing the phylogeny of a set of contemporary data, such as DNA sequences or morphological attributes, was treated by a...
Ana Estela Antunes da Silva, Wilfredo J. Puma-Vill...
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2004
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An I/O Device Driver for Bioinformatics Tools: the case for BLAST
There are many bioinformatics tools that deal with input/ output (I/O) issues by using filing systems from the most common operating systems, such as Linux or MS Windows. However, ...
Renato Mauro, Sérgio Lifschitz