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BMCBI
2004
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DIALIGN P: Fast pair-wise and multiple sequence alignment using parallel processors
Background: Parallel computing is frequently used to speed up computationally expensive tasks in Bioinformatics. Results: Herein, a parallel version of the multi-alignment program...
Martin Schmollinger, Kay Nieselt, Michael Kaufmann...
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BMCBI
2008
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Reranking candidate gene models with cross-species comparison for improved gene prediction
Background: Most gene finders score candidate gene models with state-based methods, typically HMMs, by combining local properties (coding potential, splice donor and acceptor patt...
Qian Liu, Koby Crammer, Fernando C. N. Pereira, Da...
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BMCBI
2007
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Supervised multivariate analysis of sequence groups to identify specificity determining residues
Background: Proteins that evolve from a common ancestor can change functionality over time, and it is important to be able identify residues that cause this change. In this paper ...
Iain M. Wallace, Desmond G. Higgins
JCC
2010
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14 years 8 months ago
Fast determination of the optimal rotational matrix for macromolecular superpositions
: Finding the rotational matrix that minimizes the sum of squared deviations between two vectors is an important problem in bioinformatics and crystallography. Traditional algorith...
Pu Liu, Dimitris K. Agrafiotis, Douglas L. Theobal...
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GECCO
2004
Springer
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SWAF: Swarm Algorithm Framework for Numerical Optimization
A swarm algorithm framework (SWAF), realized by agent-based modeling, is presented to solve numerical optimization problems. Each agent is a bare bones cognitive architecture, whic...
Xiao-Feng Xie, Wenjun Zhang