Large-margin structured estimation methods minimize a convex upper bound of loss functions. While they allow for efficient optimization algorithms, these convex formulations are n...
Olivier Chapelle, Chuong B. Do, Quoc V. Le, Alexan...
A number of bioinformatics tools use regular expression (RE) matching to locate protein or DNA sequence motifs that have been discovered by researchers in the laboratory. For exam...
Amine Heddad, Markus Brameier, Robert M. MacCallum
Background: Accurately covering the conformational space of amino acid side chains is essential for important applications such as protein design, docking and high resolution stru...
Tim Harder, Wouter Boomsma, Martin Paluszewski, Je...
Background: Empirical scoring functions have proven useful in protein structure modeling. Most such scoring functions depend on protein side chain conformations. However, backbone...
— The protein structure prediction (PSP) problem is one of the most important problems in computational biology. This paper proposes a novel Estimation of Distribution Algorithms...