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BMCBI
2006
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13 years 10 months ago
An interactive visualization tool to explore the biophysical properties of amino acids and their contribution to substitution ma
Background: Quantitative descriptions of amino acid similarity, expressed as probabilistic models of evolutionary interchangeability, are central to many mainstream bioinformatic ...
Blazej Bulka, Marie desJardins, Stephen J. Freelan...
RECOMB
2006
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Markov Additive Chains and Applications to Fragment Statistics for Peptide Mass Fingerprinting
Abstract. Peptide mass fingerprinting is a technique to identify a protein from its fragment masses obtained by mass spectrometry after enzymatic digestion. Recently, much attentio...
Hans-Michael Kaltenbach, Sebastian Böcker, Sv...
ALT
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Approximation Algorithms for Tensor Clustering
Abstract. We present the first (to our knowledge) approximation algorithm for tensor clustering—a powerful generalization to basic 1D clustering. Tensors are increasingly common...
Stefanie Jegelka, Suvrit Sra, Arindam Banerjee
ICSM
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
A statistical examination of the evolution and properties of libre software
How and why does software evolve? This question has been under study since almost 40 years ago, and it is still a subject of controversy. In the seventies, Meir M. Lehman formulat...
Israel Herraiz
ESA
2009
Springer
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14 years 4 months ago
Minimizing Movement: Fixed-Parameter Tractability
Abstract. We study an extensive class of movement minimization problems which arise from many practical scenarios but so far have little theoretical study. In general, these proble...
Erik D. Demaine, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, D&aacut...