Background: Quantitative descriptions of amino acid similarity, expressed as probabilistic models of evolutionary interchangeability, are central to many mainstream bioinformatic ...
Blazej Bulka, Marie desJardins, Stephen J. Freelan...
Background: Phylogenetic methods which do not rely on multiple sequence alignments are important tools in inferring trees directly from completely sequenced genomes. Here, we exte...
Alexander F. Auch, Stefan R. Henz, Barbara R. Holl...
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. ...