Many practitioners who use EM and related algorithms complain that they are sometimes slow. When does this happen, and what can be done about it? In this paper, we study the gener...
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Sam T. Roweis, Zoubin Ghahra...
Abstract-- Many statistical measures and algorithmic techniques have been proposed for studying residue coupling in protein families. Generally speaking, two residue positions are ...
John Thomas, Naren Ramakrishnan, Chris Bailey-Kell...
Background: Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) are short and error-prone DNA sequences generated from the 5' and 3' ends of randomly selected cDNA clones. They provide an im...
Nunzio D'Agostino, Mario Aversano, Maria Luisa Chi...
Background: We establish that the occurrence of protein folds among genomes can be accurately described with a Weibull function. Systems which exhibit Weibull character can be int...
Artem Cherkasov, Shannan J. Ho Sui, Robert C. Brun...
We present a set of five axioms for fairness measures in resource allocation. A family of fairness measures satisfying the axioms is constructed. Well-known notions such as -fairne...
Tian Lan, David Kao, Mung Chiang, Ashutosh Sabharw...