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NIPS
2007
13 years 8 months ago
A Probabilistic Approach to Language Change
We present a probabilistic approach to language change in which word forms are represented by phoneme sequences that undergo stochastic edits along the branches of a phylogenetic ...
Alexandre Bouchard-Côté, Percy Liang,...
TCBB
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Progressive Tree Neighborhood Applied to the Maximum Parsimony Problem
Abstract-- The Maximum Parsimony problem aims at reconstructing a phylogenetic tree from DNA sequences while minimizing the number of genetic transformations. To solve this NP-comp...
Adrien Goëffon, Jean-Michel Richer, Jin-Kao H...
JCB
2000
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13 years 7 months ago
Evaluation Measures of Multiple Sequence Alignments
Multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) are frequently used in the study of families of protein sequences or DNA/RNA sequences. They are a fundamental tool for the understanding of th...
Gaston H. Gonnet, Chantal Korostensky, Steven A. B...
RECOMB
2006
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
New Methods for Detecting Lineage-Specific Selection
Abstract. So far, most methods for identifying sequences under selection based on comparative sequence data have either assumed selectional pressures are the same across all branch...
Adam C. Siepel, Katherine S. Pollard, David Haussl...
CSB
2003
IEEE
14 years 21 days ago
Search for Evolution-Related-Oligonucleotides and Conservative Words in rRNA Sequences
We describe a method for finding ungapped conserved words in rRNA sequences that is effective, utilizes evolutionary information and does not depend on multiple sequence alignment...
Liaofu Luo, Li-Ching Hsieh, Fengmin Ji, Mengwen Ji...