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BMCBI
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
A robust and efficient algorithm for the shape description of protein structures and its application in predicting ligand bindin
Background: An accurate description of protein shape derived from protein structure is necessary to establish an understanding of protein-ligand interactions, which in turn will l...
Lei Xie, Philip E. Bourne
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Improving the estimation of relevance models using large external corpora
Information retrieval algorithms leverage various collection statistics to improve performance. Because these statistics are often computed on a relatively small evaluation corpus...
Fernando Diaz, Donald Metzler
SSDBM
2006
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
ACache: Using Caching to Improve the Performance of Multiple Sequence Alignments
Multiple sequence alignment represents a class of powerful bioinformatics tools with many uses in computational biology ranging from discovery of characteristic motifs and conserv...
Xun Tu, Kajal T. Claypool, Cindy X. Chen
ALT
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
On Calibration Error of Randomized Forecasting Algorithms
It has been recently shown that calibration with an error less than ∆ > 0 is almost surely guaranteed with a randomized forecasting algorithm, where forecasts are obtained by...
Vladimir V. V'yugin
SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
Time-based query performance predictors
Query performance prediction is aimed at predicting the retrieval effectiveness that a query will achieve with respect to a particular ranking model. In this paper, we study quer...
Nattiya Kanhabua, Kjetil Nørvåg