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...
The decision tree is one of the most fundamental ing abstractions. A commonly used type of decision tree is the alphabetic binary tree, which uses (without loss of generality) &quo...
Background: One of the primary tasks in analysing gene expression data is finding genes that are differentially expressed in different samples. Multiple testing issues due to the ...
We study the effectiveness of automatic patching and quantify the speed of patch or alert dissemination required for worm containment. We focus on random scanning as this is repres...
The amount of biological data publicly available has experienced an exponential growth as the technology advances. Online databases are now playing an important role as informatio...