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...
Background: With the rapid development of new genetic measurement methods, several types of genetic alterations can be quantified in a high-throughput manner. While the initial fo...
Background: Designing appropriate machine learning methods for identifying genes that have a significant discriminating power for disease outcomes has become more and more importa...
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 ...
Background: As in many different areas of science and technology, most important problems in bioinformatics rely on the proper development and assessment of binary classifiers. A ...