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BMCBI
2008
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Dinucleotide controlled null models for comparative RNA gene prediction
Background: Comparative prediction of RNA structures can be used to identify functional noncoding RNAs in genomic screens. It was shown recently by Babak et al. [BMC Bioinformatic...
Tanja Gesell, Stefan Washietl
CGO
2007
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Evaluating Heuristic Optimization Phase Order Search Algorithms
Program-specific or function-specific optimization phase sequences are universally accepted to achieve better overall performance than any fixed optimization phase ordering. A ...
Prasad Kulkarni, David B. Whalley, Gary S. Tyson
BICOB
2009
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
A Fitness Distance Correlation Measure for Evolutionary Trees
Phylogenetics is concerned with inferring the genealogical relationships between a group of organisms (or taxa), and this relationship is usually expressed as an evolutionary tree....
Hyun Jung Park, Tiffani L. Williams
EOR
2006
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Scatter search with path relinking for phylogenetic inference
We propose the use of scatter search with path relinking for the inference of phylogenetic trees. Solutions are here represented as trees whose leaves span the set of species unde...
Carlos Cotta
IJCBDD
2008
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Parsimony accelerated Maximum Likelihood searches
: Phylogenetic search is a key tool used in a variety of biological research endeavors. However, this search problem is known to be computationally difficult, due to the astronomic...
Kenneth Sundberg, Timothy O'Connor, Hyrum Carroll,...