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FGR
2008
IEEE
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15 years 5 months ago
Facial image analysis using local feature adaptation prior to learning
Many facial image analysis methods rely on learningbased techniques such as Adaboost or SVMs to project classifiers based on the selection of local image filters (e.g., Haar and...
Rogerio Feris, Ying-li Tian, Yun Zhai, Arun Hampap...
BMCBI
2007
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14 years 11 months ago
160-fold acceleration of the Smith-Waterman algorithm using a field programmable gate array (FPGA)
Background: To infer homology and subsequently gene function, the Smith-Waterman (SW) algorithm is used to find the optimal local alignment between two sequences. When searching s...
Isaac T. S. Li, Warren Shum, Kevin Truong
BMCBI
2006
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14 years 11 months ago
GibbsST: a Gibbs sampling method for motif discovery with enhanced resistance to local optima
Background: Computational discovery of transcription factor binding sites (TFBS) is a challenging but important problem of bioinformatics. In this study, improvement of a Gibbs sa...
Kazuhito Shida
BMCBI
2008
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Protein structure search and local structure characterization
Background: Structural similarities among proteins can provide valuable insight into their functional mechanisms and relationships. As the number of available three-dimensional (3...
Shih-Yen Ku, Yuh-Jyh Hu
BMCBI
2005
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A method for aligning RNA secondary structures and its application to RNA motif detection
Background: Alignment of RNA secondary structures is important in studying functional RNA motifs. In recent years, much progress has been made in RNA motif finding and structure a...
Jianghui Liu, Jason Tsong-Li Wang, Jun Hu, Bin Tia...