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  1. Introduction

    Genetic algorithms (GAs) are powerful search techniques based on principles of evolution. They are now widely applied to solve problems in many...
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  2. Linkage Learning Genetic Algorithm

    In order to handle linkage evolution and to tackle the ordering problem, Harik [47] took Holland’s call [53] for the evolution of tight linkage quite...
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  3. Preliminaries: Assumptions and the Test Problem

    After introducing the background and motivation of the linkage learning genetic algorithm, we will start to improve and understand the linkage...
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  4. Content Based Image Compression in Biomedical High-Throughput Screening Using Artificial Neural Networks

    Biomedical High-Throughput Screening (HTS) requires specific properties of image compression. Particularly especially when archiving a huge number of...
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  5. Discriminative Clustering of Yeast Stress Response

    When a yeast cell is challenged by a rapid change in the conditions, be it temperature, osmolarity, pH, nutrient or other, it starts a genome stress...
    Samuel Kaski, Janne Nikkilä, ... Christophe Roos in Bioinformatics Using Computational Intelligence Paradigms
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  6. Medical Bioinformatics: Detecting Molecular Diseases with Case-Based Reasoning

    Based on the Human Genome Project, the new interdisciplinary subject of bioinformatics has become an important research topic during the last decade....
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  7. Cholera toxin: mechanisms of entry into host cells

    Cholera toxin moves from the plasma membrane to the ER of host cells to cause disease. Trafficking in this pathway depends on toxin binding to...
    David E. Saslowsky, Michael Kothe, Wayne I. Lencer in Microbial Protein Toxins
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  8. The Ustilago maydis killer toxins

    Killer toxins are small proteins secreted by a number of fungi that are lethal to susceptible cells (generally fungi of the same or related species)....
    Jeremy Bruenn in Microbial Protein Toxins
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  9. Deconvolution Microscopy

    Since its introduction in 1983, deconvolution microscopy has become a key image-processing tool for visualizing the cellular structures of fixed and...
    Jean-Baptiste Sibarita in Microscopy Techniques
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  10. Molecular Components of Physiological Stress Responses in Escherichia coli

    In order to survive under and adapt to different conditions Escherichia coli has evolved elaborate systems that are able to sense and respond to...
    Lukas M. Wick, Thomas Egli in Physiological Stress Responses in Bioprocesses
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  11. Application of Knowledge Information Processing Methods to Biochemical Engineering, Biomedical and Bioinformatics Fields

    In biochemical and biomedical engineering fields there are a variety of phenomena with many complex chemical reactions, in which many genes and...
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  12. S. cerevisiae K28 toxin – a secreted virus toxin of the A/B family of protein toxins

    Since the initial discovery of toxin-secreting killer strains in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae more than 40 years ago, continuous research on...
    Susanne Leis, Jenny Spindler, ... Manfred J. Schmitt in Microbial Protein Toxins
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  13. Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy in Single Molecule Nanobioscience

    Recent development in total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (TIRFM) has made it possible to directly monitor the behaviors of...
    Tetsuichi Wazawa, Masahiro Ueda in Microscopy Techniques
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  14. Tracking Movement in Cell Biology

    This article is an overview of techniques for measuring movement of proteins, vesicles and cells using digital image processing. Diverse techniques...
    Kota Miura in Microscopy Techniques
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  15. Taxonomy and phylogenetic diversity among the yeasts

    Yeasts are among the economically and scientifically most important eukaryotic microorganisms known. At present, there are 1,500 recognized species,...
    Cletus P. Kurtzman, Jure Piškur in Comparative Genomics
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  16. Metabolic Engineering

    Metabolic engineering is a powerful methodology aimed at intelligently designing new biological pathways, systems, and ultimately phenotypes...
    R. Michael Raab, Keith Tyo, Gregory Stephanopoulos in Biotechnology for the Future
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  17. Cell-free Protein Synthesis Systems: Increasing their Performance and Applications

    The Escherichia coli cell-free protein synthesis system can now be used for various proteins that need special requirements, such as disulfide bond...
    Hideo Nakano, Yasuaki Kawarasaki, Tsuneo Yamane in Recent Progress of Biochemical and Biomedical Engineering in Japan I
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  18. Regeneration of Articular Cartilage

    Loss of articular cartilage from the ends of bones forming diarthrodial joints can be the source of profound pain and disability, and eventually lead...
    B. Kinner, R. M. Capito, M. Spector in Regenerative Medicine II
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  19. Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM)

    Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) is a technique to map the spatial distribution of nanosecond excited state lifetimes within...
    Erik B. van Munster, Theodorus W. J. Gadella in Microscopy Techniques
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