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BMCBI
2008
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Multi-agent systems in epidemiology: a first step for computational biology in the study of vector-borne disease transmission
Background: Computational biology is often associated with genetic or genomic studies only. However, thanks to the increase of computational resources, computational models are ap...
Benjamin Roche, Jean-François Guégan...
SAC
2011
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
A quasi-Newton acceleration for high-dimensional optimization algorithms
Abstract In many statistical problems, maximum likelihood estimation by an EM or MM algorithm suffers from excruciatingly slow convergence. This tendency limits the application of ...
Hua Zhou, David Alexander, Kenneth Lange
BMCBI
2008
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Evolution of biological sequences implies an extreme value distribution of type I for both global and local pairwise alignment s
Background: Confidence in pairwise alignments of biological sequences, obtained by various methods such as Blast or Smith-Waterman, is critical for automatic analyses of genomic d...
Olivier Bastien, Eric Maréchal
BMCBI
2008
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A probabilistic framework to predict protein function from interaction data integrated with semantic knowledge
Background: The functional characterization of newly discovered proteins has been a challenge in the post-genomic era. Protein-protein interactions provide insights into the funct...
Young-Rae Cho, Lei Shi, Murali Ramanathan, Aidong ...
BMCBI
2010
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Protein structure analysis of mutations causing inheritable diseases. An e-Science approach with life scientist friendly interfa
Background: Many newly detected point mutations are located in protein-coding regions of the human genome. Knowledge of their effects on the protein's 3D structure provides i...
Hanka Venselaar, Tim A. H. te Beek, Remko K. P. Ku...