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AAAI
2004
15 years 8 months ago
PROBCONS: Probabilistic Consistency-Based Multiple Alignment of Amino Acid Sequences
Obtaining an accurate multiple alignment of protein sequences is a difficult computational problem for which many heuristic techniques sacrifice optimality to achieve reasonable r...
Chuong B. Do, Michael Brudno, Serafim Batzoglou
ACL
2004
15 years 8 months ago
Finding Predominant Word Senses in Untagged Text
In word sense disambiguation (WSD), the heuristic of choosing the most common sense is extremely powerful because the distribution of the senses of a word is often skewed. The pro...
Diana McCarthy, Rob Koeling, Julie Weeds, John A. ...
ISMB
1993
15 years 8 months ago
The Induction of Rules for Predicting Chemical Carcinogenesis in Rodents
This paper presents results from an ongoing effort in applying a variety of induction-based methods to the problem of predicting the biological activity of noncongeneric (structu...
Dennis Bahler, Douglas W. Bristol
CIBCB
2009
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
rnaDesign: Local search for RNA secondary structure design
Abstract-- The RNA secondary structure design (SSD) problem is a recently emerging research topic motivated by applications such as customized drug design and the self-assembly of ...
Denny C. Dai, Herbert H. Tsang, Kay C. Wiese
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GECCO
2008
Springer
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Rank based variation operators for genetic algorithms
We show how and why using genetic operators that are applied with probabilities that depend on the fitness rank of a genotype or phenotype offers a robust alternative to the Sim...
Jorge Cervantes, Christopher R. Stephens