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BMCBI
2006
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MCALIGN2: Faster, accurate global pairwise alignment of non-coding DNA sequences based on explicit models of indel evolution
Background: Non-coding DNA sequences comprise a very large proportion of the total genomic content of mammals, most other vertebrates, many invertebrates, and most plants. Unravel...
Jun Wang, Peter D. Keightley, Toby Johnson
ASPDAC
2008
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
An efficient performance improvement method utilizing specialized functional units in Behavioral Synthesis
This paper proposes a novel Behavioral Synthesis method that improves performance of synthesized circuits utilizing specialized functional units effectively. Specialized functional...
Tsuyoshi Sadakata, Yusuke Matsunaga
NN
2000
Springer
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Evolutionary robots with on-line self-organization and behavioral fitness
We address two issues in Evolutionary Robotics, namely the genetic encoding and the performance criterion, also known as fitness function. For the first aspect, we suggest to enco...
Dario Floreano, Joseba Urzelai
CPAIOR
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Fitness-Distance Correlation and Solution-Guided Multi-point Constructive Search for CSPs
Solution-Guided Multi-Point Constructive Search (SGMPCS) is a complete, constructive search technique that has been shown to out-perform standard constructive search techniques on ...
Ivan Heckman, J. Christopher Beck
CSDA
2006
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Performing hypothesis tests on the shape of functional data
We explore different approaches for performing hypothesis tests on the shape of a mean function by developing general methodologies both, for the often assumed, i.i.d. error struc...
Gareth M. James, Ashish Sood