Epistasis or the interaction of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at different loci plays a significant role on the mechanisms and pathogenesis of many common complex, multifactorial diseases and may be responsib...
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Data compression does not only save space for data storage, but also improve its safety and efficiency during data transport. As any data can be saved in the form of an integer directly or indirectly, it is a meaningf...
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Compared with traditional VANET(Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks) routing techniques, geographic routing has been proven to be more fittable for highly mobile scenes. Traditional routings use greedy modes or fixed forwarding...
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Compared with traditional VANET(Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks) routing techniques, geographic routing has been proven to be more fittable for highly mobile scenes. Traditional routings use greedy modes or fixed forwarding paths to sent packets. But, the dynamic features of VANET such as fast changed topology, vehicles density and radio obstacles, could cause local maximum and sparse connectivity. Due to the characteristics of wireless channel, while there are too many packets transmit through a path, the delay and the number of packets loss will both increase clearly. We propose DMPR, a Dynamic Multipath Routing, combined with node location and digital map. The proposed DMPR detects transmission delay of different paths every once in a period of time, and dynamically determine the transmission ratio of each path. We execute NS2 simulation to exhibit that DMPR routing protocol significantly outperform three well known VANET ones in terms of the average packet delivery ratio and end-to-end delay.
Fabric pattern is a folk art of artificial fabrics pattern design which includes apparels (known as clothes and hats), and crafts (known as carpets and tapestries). Although image processing, information retrieval and...
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A genome-wide association study (GWAS) typically involves detecting epistatic interactions of multiple genetic variants on the susceptibility of complex human diseases. As the most abundant source of genetic variation...
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A genome-wide association study (GWAS) typically involves detecting epistatic interactions of multiple genetic variants on the susceptibility of complex human diseases. As the most abundant source of genetic variation in human genome, the number of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) reaches millions in public datasets and SNP data collected from thousands of individuals in case-control studies may shed light on our understanding of epistatic interactions. Various methods have been proposed in previous literature for identifying genetic interactions, but they are infeasible for GWAS as biology data is too large, we here propose a method ‘epistasis group based on Bayesian inference’ (EGBI). EGBI applies a Bayesian marker partition model to investigate observed case-control data and computes the posterior distribution of each epistasis group that is associated with the disease via Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). When applied to both simulated data and WTCCC type 1 diabetes data, EGBI successfully identified many known susceptible genes including CTLA4 and MHC and performed more powerfully than its competitors.
Detecting susceptibility genes and gene-gene interactions (epistasis) is an important issue in genetic association analysis and genetic epidemiology. Due to the huge number of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) an...
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Detecting susceptibility genes and gene-gene interactions (epistasis) is an important issue in genetic association analysis and genetic epidemiology. Due to the huge number of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and inappropriate statistical tests, epistasis detection is a computational and statistical challenge and becomes a "needle-in-a-haystack" problem. Also some epistasis detection algorithms proposed in lots of literature have demonstrated their successes for small scale data, while most of them cannot be directly applied into genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and the pathogenesis of many common complex human diseases is mysterious. Here we adopted a random forest method incorporating information theory and a powerful statistical test, B-stat to detect epistasis. We conducted sufficient artificial experiments on a wide range of simulated datasets and compared performance of our random forest method with its two competitors, COE and BEAM. Experimental results demonstrated that this method is quite available and time efficiency for the haystack problem. We also presented the results of the application of the method to the WTCCC type 1 diabetes dataset. We reported some previously well known genes as well as some significant SNP interactions.
Bridging virtualized environments with physical environments, virtual network plays an important role in Cloud Computing infrastructures. How to allocate physical resources for virtual nodes/links to construct virtual...
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We consider a modular method to reinforcement learning that represents uncertainty of model parameters by maintaining probability distributions over them. The algorithm we call MBDP (model-based Bayesian dynamic progr...
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We consider a modular method to reinforcement learning that represents uncertainty of model parameters by maintaining probability distributions over them. The algorithm we call MBDP (model-based Bayesian dynamic programming) can be decomposed into two parallel types of inference: model learning and policy learning. During learning a model, we update posterior distributions of a model over observations after taking an action in each state. During learning a policy, we solve MDPs by dynamic programming with greedy approximation to make an agent choose behaviors which maximize return under the estimated model. Furthermore, we propose a principled method which utilizes the variance of Dirichlet distributions for determining when to learn and relearn the model. We demonstrate that MBDP can find near optimal policies with high probability by sufficient model learning and experimental results show that MBDP performs better compared with current state-of-the-art methods in reinforcement learning.
Most of the microarray expression data have tens of thousands of genes but very small number of samples. Feature selection has been widely used to extract the subset of informative genes. Though many feature selection...
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Ant colony algorithm is a more effective way of solving traveling salesman problem (TSP). Ant colony algorithm adopts the distributed parallel computing mechanism;and it is easy to combine with other methods. Furtherm...
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