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BIBE
2007
IEEE
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15 years 3 months ago
A Flexible Stem-Based Local Search Algorithm for Predicting RNA Secondary Structures Including Pseudoknots
-We demonstrate a new algorithm named FlexStem to predict RNA secondary structures with pseudoknots. Our approach is based on the free energy minimization criterion, and utilizes a...
Xiang Chen, Simin He, Dongbo Bu, Runsheng Chen, We...
UAI
2003
14 years 10 months ago
On the Convergence of Bound Optimization Algorithms
Many practitioners who use EM and related algorithms complain that they are sometimes slow. When does this happen, and what can be done about it? In this paper, we study the gener...
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Sam T. Roweis, Zoubin Ghahra...
UAI
2004
14 years 11 months ago
On the Choice of Regions for Generalized Belief Propagation
Generalized belief propagation (GBP) has proven to be a promising technique for approximate inference tasks in AI and machine learning. However, the choice of a good set of cluste...
Max Welling
JCC
2006
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14 years 9 months ago
Monte Carlo simulations of biomolecules: The MC module in CHARMM
: We describe the implementation of a general and flexible Monte Carlo (MC) module for the program CHARMM, which is used widely for modeling biomolecular systems with empirical ene...
Jie Hu, Ao Ma, Aaron R. Dinner
GECCO
2006
Springer
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15 years 1 months ago
Emergent mating topologies in spatially structured genetic algorithms
The application of network analysis to emergent mating topologies in spatially structured genetic algorithms is presented in this preliminary study as a framework for inferring ev...
Joshua L. Payne, Margaret J. Eppstein