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SIGMOD
1998
ACM
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The Pyramid-Technique: Towards Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality
In this paper, we propose the Pyramid-Technique, a new indexing method for high-dimensional data spaces. The PyramidTechnique is highly adapted to range query processing using the...
Stefan Berchtold, Christian Böhm, Hans-Peter ...
AAAI
2006
13 years 8 months ago
Computing Slater Rankings Using Similarities among Candidates
Voting (or rank aggregation) is a general method for aggregating the preferences of multiple agents. One important voting rule is the Slater rule. It selects a ranking of the alte...
Vincent Conitzer
BMCBI
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
A novel series of compositionally biased substitution matrices for comparing Plasmodium proteins
Background: The most common substitution matrices currently used (BLOSUM and PAM) are based on protein sequences with average amino acid distributions, thus they do not represent ...
Kevin Brick, Elisabetta Pizzi
BMCBI
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
A general and efficient method for estimating continuous IBD functions for use in genome scans for QTL
Background: Identity by descent (IBD) matrix estimation is a central component in mapping of Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) using variance component models. A large number of algor...
Francois Besnier, Örjan Carlborg
BMCBI
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Bayesian modeling of recombination events in bacterial populations
Background: We consider the discovery of recombinant segments jointly with their origins within multilocus DNA sequences from bacteria representing heterogeneous populations of fa...
Pekka Marttinen, Adam Baldwin, William P. Hanage, ...