Background: Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) as defined here are single base sequence changes or short insertion/deletions between or within individuals of a given species. ...
Lakshmi K. Matukumalli, John J. Grefenstette, Davi...
Background: A complete understanding of the regulatory mechanisms of gene expression is the next important issue of genomics. Many bioinformaticians have developed methods and alg...
Background: We consider the problem of parameter estimation (model calibration) in nonlinear dynamic models of biological systems. Due to the frequent ill-conditioning and multi-m...
Maria Rodriguez-Fernandez, Jose A. Egea, Julio R. ...
Background: Autoimmune diseases are disorders caused by an immune response directed against the body's own organs, tissues and cells. In practice more than 80 clinically dist...
Thomas Karopka, Juliane Fluck, Heinz-Theodor Mevis...
Background: Jumping alignments have recently been proposed as a strategy to search a given multiple sequence alignment A against a database. Instead of comparing a database sequen...
Anne-Kathrin Schultz, Ming Zhang, Thomas Leitner, ...