The hit criterion is a key component of heuristic local alignment algorithms. It specifies a class of patterns assumed to witness a potential similarity, and this choice is decisi...
Background: Despite considerable efforts within the microarray community for standardising data format, content and description, microarray technologies present major challenges i...
Chris Tomlinson, Manjula Thimma, Stelios Alexandra...
Background: We present a biological data warehouse called Atlas that locally stores and integrates biological sequences, molecular interactions, homology information, functional a...
Sohrab P. Shah, Yong Huang, Tao Xu, Macaire M. S. ...
Background: Many proteomics initiatives require a seamless bioinformatics integration of a range of analytical steps between sample collection and systems modeling immediately ass...
Romesh Stanislaus, Liu Hong Jiang, Martha Swartz, ...
We present a general Multi-Agent System framework for distributed data mining based on a Peer-toPeer model. The framework adopts message-based asynchronous communication and a dyn...