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BMCBI
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Grammar-based distance in progressive multiple sequence alignment
Background: We propose a multiple sequence alignment (MSA) algorithm and compare the alignment-quality and execution-time of the proposed algorithm with that of existing algorithm...
David J. Russell, Hasan H. Otu, Khalid Sayood
RECOMB
2004
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Computational identification of evolutionarily conserved exons
Phylogenetic hidden Markov models (phylo-HMMs) have recently been proposed as a means for addressing a multispecies version of the ab initio gene prediction problem. These models ...
Adam C. Siepel, David Haussler
RECOMB
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Leveraging Sequence Classification by Taxonomy-Based Multitask Learning
In this work we consider an inference task that biologists are very good at: deciphering biological processes by bringing together knowledge that has been obtained by experiments u...
Christian Widmer, Jose Leiva, Yasemin Altun, Gunna...
GECCO
2006
Springer
132views Optimization» more  GECCO 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
The role of diverse populations in phylogenetic analysis
The most popular approaches for reconstructing phylogenetic trees attempt to solve NP-hard optimization criteria such as maximum parsimony (MP). Currently, the bestperforming heur...
Tiffani L. Williams, Marc L. Smith
CORR
2011
Springer
235views Education» more  CORR 2011»
13 years 2 months ago
On the accuracy of language trees
Historical linguistics aims at inferring the most likely language phylogenetic tree starting from information concerning the evolutionary relatedness of languages. The available i...
Simone Pompei, Vittorio Loreto, Francesca Tria