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BMCBI
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
Phylogenetic representativeness: a new method for evaluating taxon sampling in evolutionary studies
Background: Taxon sampling is a major concern in phylogenetic studies. Incomplete, biased, or improper taxon sampling can lead to misleading results in reconstructing evolutionary...
Federico Plazzi, Ronald R. Ferrucci, Marco Passamo...
JCB
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Confounding Factors in HGT Detection: Statistical Error, Coalescent Effects, and Multiple Solutions
Prokaryotic organisms share genetic material across species boundaries by means of a process known as horizontal gene transfer (HGT). This process has great significance for unde...
Cuong Than, Derek A. Ruths, Hideki Innan, Luay Nak...
JCB
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Prioritize and Select SNPs for Association Studies with Multi-Stage Designs
Large-scale whole genome association studies are increasingly common, due in large part to recent advances in genotyping technology. With this change in paradigm for genetic studi...
Jing Li
ECIR
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
Combining Global and Local Semantic Contexts for Improving Biomedical Information Retrieval
In the context of biomedical information retrieval (IR), this paper explores the relationship between the document’s global context and the query’s local context in an attempt ...
Duy Dinh, Lynda Tamine
WEA
2005
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
High-Performance Algorithm Engineering for Large-Scale Graph Problems and Computational Biology
Abstract. Many large-scale optimization problems rely on graph theoretic solutions; yet high-performance computing has traditionally focused on regular applications with high degre...
David A. Bader