Background: Detecting remote homologies by direct comparison of protein sequences remains a challenging task. We had previously developed a similarity score between sequences, cal...
Words and phrases acquire meaning from the way they are used in society, from their relative semantics to other words and phrases. For computers the equivalent of `society' is...
Using different algorithms to segment different images is a quite straightforward strategy for automated image segmentation. But the difficulty of the optimal algorithm selection ...
Background: Antibacterial peptides are important components of the innate immune system, used by the host to protect itself from different types of pathogenic bacteria. Over the l...
Bayesian approaches to supervised learning use priors on the classifier parameters. However, few priors aim at achieving "sparse" classifiers, where irrelevant/redundant...