Background: Peptidases are proteolytic enzymes responsible for fundamental cellular activities in all organisms. Apparently about 2–5% of the genes encode for peptidases, irresp...
Lisa Bartoli, Remo Calabrese, Piero Fariselli, Dam...
Background: The Affymetrix™ technology is nowadays a well-established method for the analysis of gene expression profiles in cancer research studies. However, changes in gene ex...
Davide Rambaldi, Barbara Felice, Viviane Praz, Phi...
Background: Support Vector Machines (SVMs) provide a powerful method for classification (supervised learning). Use of SVMs for clustering (unsupervised learning) is now being cons...
Background: Mean-based clustering algorithms such as bisecting k-means generally lack robustness. Although componentwise median is a more robust alternative, it can be a poor cent...
Yuanyuan Ding, Xin Dang, Hanxiang Peng, Dawn Wilki...
Background: Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) provide an excellent means for structure identification and feature extraction on stochastic sequential data. An HMM-with-Duration (HMMwD) ...