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BMCBI
2008
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Evolution of biological sequences implies an extreme value distribution of type I for both global and local pairwise alignment s
Background: Confidence in pairwise alignments of biological sequences, obtained by various methods such as Blast or Smith-Waterman, is critical for automatic analyses of genomic d...
Olivier Bastien, Eric Maréchal
CORR
2010
Springer
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Sequential item pricing for unlimited supply
We investigate the extent to which price updates can increase the revenue of a seller with little prior information on demand. We study prior-free revenue maximization for a selle...
Maria-Florina Balcan, Florin Constantin
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BMCBI
2005
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15 years 18 days ago
Genomes are covered with ubiquitous 11 bp periodic patterns, the "class A flexible patterns"
Background: The genomes of prokaryotes and lower eukaryotes display a very strong 11 bp periodic bias in the distribution of their nucleotides. This bias is present throughout a g...
Etienne Larsabal, Antoine Danchin
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INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
Enhancing Wireless TCP: A Serialized-Timer Approach
— In wireless networks, TCP performs unsatisfactorily since packet reordering and random losses may be falsely interpreted as congestive losses. This causes TCP to trigger fast r...
Chengdi Lai, Ka-Cheong Leung, Victor O. K. Li
CVPR
2012
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
A learning-based framework for depth ordering
Depth ordering is instrumental for understanding the 3D geometry of an image. We as humans are surprisingly good ordering even with abstract 2D line drawings. In this paper we pro...
Zhaoyin Jia, Andrew C. Gallagher, Yao-Jen Chang, T...