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BMCBI
2006
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Asymptotic behaviour and optimal word size for exact and approximate word matches between random sequences
Background: The number of k-words shared between two sequences is a simple and effcient alignment-free sequence comparison method. This statistic, D2, has been used for the cluste...
Sylvain Forêt, Miriam R. Kantorovitz, Conrad...
BMCBI
2006
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Analysis of circular genome rearrangement by fusions, fissions and block-interchanges
Background: Analysis of genomes evolving via block-interchange events leads to a combinatorial problem of sorting by block-interchanges, which has been studied recently to evaluat...
Chin Lung Lu, Yen-Lin Huang, Tsui Ching Wang, Hsie...
IDT
2008
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A rich semantic model of track as a foundation for sharing beliefs regarding dynamic objects and events
: Many defense, homeland security, and commercial security objectives require continuous tracking of mobile entities such as aircraft. The systems that perform these functions prod...
Frederick Hayes-Roth, Curtis L. Blais
BMCBI
2006
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Using the nucleotide substitution rate matrix to detect horizontal gene transfer
Background: Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) has allowed bacteria to evolve many new capabilities. Because transferred genes perform many medically important functions, such as conf...
Micah Hamady, M. D. Betterton, Rob Knight
BMCBI
2006
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Detecting the limits of regulatory element conservation and divergence estimation using pairwise and multiple alignments
Background: Molecular evolutionary studies of noncoding sequences rely on multiple alignments. Yet how multiple alignment accuracy varies across sequence types, tree topologies, d...
Daniel A. Pollard, Alan M. Moses, Venky N. Iyer, M...