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TCBB
2011
13 years 2 months ago
Probabilistic Analysis of Probe Reliability in Differential Gene Expression Studies with Short Oligonucleotide Arrays
— Probe defects are a major source of noise in gene expression studies. While existing approaches detect noisy probes based on external information such as genomic alignments, we...
Leo Lahti, Laura Elo, Tero Aittokallio, Samuel Kas...
TCBB
2011
13 years 2 months ago
Semi-Markov Models for Brownian Dynamics Permeation in Biological Ion Channels
—Constructing accurate computational models that explain how ions permeate through a biological ion channel is an important problem in biophysics and drug design. Brownian dynami...
Vikram Krishnamurthy, Kai Yiu Luk
TCBB
2011
13 years 2 months ago
A Partial Set Covering Model for Protein Mixture Identification Using Mass Spectrometry Data
—Protein identification is a key and essential step in mass spectrometry (MS) based proteome research. To date, there are many protein identification strategies that employ eithe...
Zengyou He, Can Yang, Weichuan Yu
TCBB
2011
13 years 2 months ago
Information-Theoretic Model of Evolution over Protein Communication Channel
—In this paper, we propose a communication model of evolution and investigate its information-theoretic bounds. The process of evolution is modeled as the retransmission of infor...
Liuling Gong, Nidhal Bouaynaya, Dan Schonfeld
TCBB
2011
13 years 2 months ago
Semantics and Ambiguity of Stochastic RNA Family Models
Stochastic models such as hidden Markov models or stochastic context free grammars can fail to return the correct, maximum likelihood solution in the case of semantic ambiguity. T...
Robert Giegerich, Christian Höner zu Siederdi...
TCBB
2011
13 years 2 months ago
Learning Genetic Regulatory Network Connectivity from Time Series Data
Recent experimental advances facilitate the collection of time series data that indicate which genes in a cell are expressed. This paper proposes an efficient method to generate th...
Nathan A. Barker, Chris J. Myers, Hiroyuki Kuwahar...
TCBB
2011
13 years 2 months ago
Graph Comparison by Log-Odds Score Matrices with Application to Protein Topology Analysis
A TOPS diagram is a simplified description of the topology of a protein using a graph where nodes are α-helices and β-strands, and edges correspond to chirality relations and p...
J. Rocha
TCBB
2011
13 years 2 months ago
Data Mining on DNA Sequences of Hepatitis B Virus
: Extraction of meaningful information from large experimental datasets is a key element of bioinformatics research. One of the challenges is to identify genomic markers in Hepatit...
Kwong-Sak Leung, Kin-Hong Lee, Jin Feng Wang, Eddi...
TCBB
2011
13 years 2 months ago
Accurate Construction of Consensus Genetic Maps via Integer Linear Programming
—We study the problem of merging genetic maps, when the individual genetic maps are given as directed acyclic graphs. The computational problem is to build a consensus map, which...
Yonghui Wu, Timothy J. Close, Stefano Lonardi
TCAD
2011
13 years 2 months ago
Low-Power Clock Tree Design for Pre-Bond Testing of 3-D Stacked ICs
—Pre-bond testing of 3-D stacked integrated circuits (ICs) involves testing each individual die before bonding. The overall yield of 3-D ICs improves with pre-bond testability be...
Xin Zhao, Dean L. Lewis, Hsien-Hsin S. Lee, Sung K...