Background: The accomplishment of the various genome sequencing projects resulted in accumulation of massive amount of gene sequence information. This calls for a large-scale comp...
Background: The large gap between the number of protein sequences in databases and the number of functionally characterized proteins calls for the development of a fast computatio...
A pseudo-Boolean function is a real-valued function defined on {0, 1}n . A k-bounded function is a pseudo-Boolean function that can be expressed as a sum of subfunctions each of w...
Background: Searching for similarities in protein and DNA databases has become a routine procedure in Molecular Biology. The Smith-Waterman algorithm has been available for more t...
Background: The construction of literature-based networks of gene-gene interactions is one of the most important applications of text mining in bioinformatics. Extracting potentia...