Background: The increasing amount of published literature in biomedicine represents an immense source of knowledge, which can only efficiently be accessed by a new generation of a...
The problem of extracting a minimal number of data points from a large dataset, in order to generate a support vector machine (SVM) classifier, is formulated as a concave minimiza...
Background: Protein loops encompass 50% of protein residues in available three-dimensional structures. These regions are often involved in protein functions, e.g. binding site, ca...
The 3D conformation of a protein may be compactly represented in a symmetrical, square, boolean matrix of pairwise, inter-residue contacts, or "contact map". The contact...
Jingjing Hu, Xiaolan Shen, Yu Shao, Chris Bystroff...
This paper describes the design, implementation and population of a lexical resource for biology and bioinformatics (the BioLexicon) developed within an ongoing European project. ...
Valeria Quochi, Monica Monachini, Riccardo Del Gra...