Background: Genome-wide association studies of common diseases for common, low penetrance causal variants are underway. A proportion of these will alter protein sequences, the mos...
David F. Burke, Catherine L. Worth, Eva-Maria Prie...
Background: Microarray and other high-throughput technologies are producing large sets of interesting genes that are difficult to analyze directly. Bioinformatics tools are needed...
Bing Zhang, Denise Schmoyer, Stefan Kirov, Jay Sno...
Starting from some simple observations on a popular selection method in Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs)--tournament selection--we highlight a previously-unknown source of inefficien...
Background: Activated Protein C (ProC) is an anticoagulant plasma serine protease which also plays an important role in controlling inflammation and cell proliferation. Several mu...
Pasqualina D'Ursi, Francesca Marino, Andrea Caprer...
Background: Clustering the information content of large high-dimensional gene expression datasets has widespread application in "omics" biology. Unfortunately, the under...