Given a database with missing or uncertain content, our goal is to correct and fill the database by extracting specific information from a large corpus such as the Web, and to d...
Lexical chaining is a technique for identifying semanticallyrelated terms in text. We propose concept chaining to link semantically-related concepts within biomedical text togethe...
Aligning structures, often referred to as docking or registration, is frequently required in fields such as computer science, robotics and structural biology. The task of alignin...
Johannes Jansen van Vuuren, Michelle Kuttel, James...
When designing questionnaires there is a tradition of including items with both positive and negative wording to minimize acquiescence and extreme response biases. Two disadvantag...
Bioinformaticists use the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) to characterize an unknown sequence by comparing it against a database of known sequences, thus detecting evolu...