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BMCBI
2008
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Evolution of biological sequences implies an extreme value distribution of type I for both global and local pairwise alignment s
Background: Confidence in pairwise alignments of biological sequences, obtained by various methods such as Blast or Smith-Waterman, is critical for automatic analyses of genomic d...
Olivier Bastien, Eric Maréchal
ICDE
2005
IEEE
120views Database» more  ICDE 2005»
14 years 10 months ago
Progressive Distributed Top k Retrieval in Peer-to-Peer Networks
Query processing in traditional information management systems has moved from an exact match model to more flexible paradigms allowing cooperative retrieval by aggregating the dat...
Wolf-Tilo Balke, Wolfgang Nejdl, Wolf Siberski, Uw...
BMCBI
2007
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Estimating genealogies from linked marker data: a Bayesian approach
Background: Answers to several fundamental questions in statistical genetics would ideally require knowledge of the ancestral pedigree and of the gene flow therein. A few examples...
Dario Gasbarra, Matti Pirinen, Mikko J. Sillanp&au...
NSDI
2008
13 years 10 months ago
DieCast: Testing Distributed Systems with an Accurate Scale Model
Large-scale network services can consist of tens of thousands of machines running thousands of unique software configurations spread across hundreds of physical networks. Testing ...
Diwaker Gupta, Kashi Venkatesh Vishwanath, Amin Va...
STOC
2005
ACM
112views Algorithms» more  STOC 2005»
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The complexity of agreement
A celebrated 1976 theorem of Aumann asserts that honest, rational Bayesian agents with common priors will never "agree to disagree": if their opinions about any topic ar...
Scott Aaronson