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BMCBI
2011
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Assessing the benefits of using mate-pairs to resolve repeats in de novo short-read prokaryotic assemblies
Background: Next-generation sequencing technologies allow genomes to be sequenced more quickly and less expensively than ever before. However, as sequencing technology has improve...
Joshua Wetzel, Carl Kingsford, Mihai Pop
BMCBI
2011
15 years 1 months ago
CDAO-Store: Ontology-driven Data Integration for Phylogenetic Analysis
Brandon Chisham, Ben Wright, Trung Le, Tran Cao So...
BMCBI
2011
15 years 1 months ago
A theoretical entropy score as a single value to express inhibitor selectivity
Background: Designing maximally selective ligands that act on individual targets is the dominant paradigm in drug discovery. Poor selectivity can underlie toxicity and side effect...
Joost C. M. Uitdehaag, Guido J. R. Zaman
BMCBI
2011
15 years 1 months ago
Analysis on the reconstruction accuracy of the Fitch method for inferring ancestral states
Background: As one of the most widely used parsimony methods for ancestral reconstruction, the Fitch method minimizes the total number of hypothetical substitutions along all bran...
Jialiang Yang, Jun Li, Liuhuan Dong, Stefan Gr&uum...
BIOINFORMATICS
2011
15 years 1 months ago
All-atom knowledge-based potential for RNA structure prediction and assessment
Motivation: Over the recent years, the vision that RNA simply serves as information transfer molecule has dramatically changed. The study of the sequence/structure/function relati...
Emidio Capriotti, Tomás Norambuena, Marc A....
AR
2011
15 years 1 months ago
Imitation Learning of Positional and Force Skills Demonstrated via Kinesthetic Teaching and Haptic Input
A method to learn and reproduce robot force interactions in a Human-Robot Interaction setting is proposed. The method allows a robotic manipulator to learn to perform tasks which ...
Petar Kormushev, Sylvain Calinon, Darwin G. Caldwe...
ADVAI
2010
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Using Genetic Algorithms to Represent Higher-Level Planning in Simulation Models of Conflict
The focus of warfare has shifted from the Industrial Age to the Information Age, as encapsulated by the term Network Enabled Capability. This emphasises information sharing, comma...
James Moffat, Susan Fellows
AMC
2011
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Convergence of rank-type equations
Convergence results are presented for rank-type difference equations, whose evolution rule is defined at each step as the kth largest of p univariate difference equations. If t...
Timothy Sauer