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CIKM
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Semantic similarity over the gene ontology: family correlation and selecting disjunctive ancestors
Many bioinformatics applications would benefit from comparing proteins based on their biological role rather than their sequence. In most biological databases, proteins are alrea...
Francisco M. Couto, Mário J. Silva, Pedro C...
PPSN
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Optimizing through Co-evolutionary Avalanches
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
CACM
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
The emergence of a networking primitive in wireless sensor networks
The wireless sensor network community approached netabstractions as an open question, allowing answers to emerge with time and experience. The Trickle algorithm has become a basic...
Philip Levis, Eric A. Brewer, David E. Culler, Dav...
ALMOB
2008
95views more  ALMOB 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
A stitch in time: Efficient computation of genomic DNA melting bubbles
Background: It is of biological interest to make genome-wide predictions of the locations of DNA melting bubbles using statistical mechanics models. Computationally, this poses th...
Eivind Tøstesen
SCAI
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Modeling Habituation in the Cnidarian Hydra
Abstract. In the design of behavior-based control architectures for robots it is common to use biology as inspiration, and often the observed functionalities of insect behaviors ar...
Malin Aktius, Mats Nordahl, Tom Ziemke