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Article
Open AccessTransmembrane helix prediction using amino acid property features and latent semantic analysis
Prediction of transmembrane (TM) helices by statistical methods suffers from lack of sufficient training data. Current best methods use hundreds or even thousands of free parameters in their models which are t...
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Article
Evolutionary insights from suffix array-based genome sequence analysis
Gene and protein sequence analyses, central components of studies in modern biology are easily amenable to string matching and pattern recognition algorithms. The growing need of analysing whole genome sequenc...
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Chapter
Collaborative Discovery Through Biological Language Modeling Interface
Scientific progress is exponentially increasing, and a typical example is the progress in the area of computational biology. Here, problems pertaining to biology and biochemistry are being solved by way of ana...
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Chapter
Computational Biology and Language
Current scientific research is characterized by increasing specialization, accumulating knowledge at a high speed due to parallel advances in a multitude of sub-disciplines. Recent estimates suggest that human...
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Unifying Science and Education
The fifth and final NBIC theme explores the transformations of science and scientific education that will enable and be enhanced by technological convergence. The panel especially focused on the ways that educ...
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Principal Component Analysis with Missing Data and Its Application to Polyhedral Object Modeling
Observation-based object modeling often requires integration of shape descriptions from different views. In current conventional methods, to sequentially merge multiple views, an accurate description of each s...
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Chapter
Teleportation, Time Travel, and Immortality
I was going to say that our next speaker is going to take another way out look at things, but having heard Bruce, let’s say relatively way out. He earned a doctorate in Computer Science back in 1963, when he c...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Universal Library: Intelligent agents and information on demand
The vision of The Universal Library represents a powerful idea. It is not a mere electronic equivalent of a conventional library. The scope of this library would involve a combination of sources which will pro...
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Chapter
Techniques for the Creation and Exploration of Digital Video Libraries
The Information Age is fully upon us. A recent article noted that there are perhaps 50 million people using the Internet on a regular basis, and That “the current growth rate is about 15% per month (!) and thi...
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A 3d-Object Reconstruction System Integrating Range-Image Processing and Rapid Prototy**
This paper describes a system which integrates computer vision and rapid manufacturing technologies to scan physical objects and to replicate the reconstructed shapes as steel faced dies using sha** depositi...
