A PRIMER ON BIOINFORMATICS

A primer to frequent itemset mining for bioinformatics

Over the past two decades, pattern mining techniques have become an integral part of many bioinformatics solutions. Frequent itemset mining is a popular group of pattern mining techniques designed to identify elements that frequently co-occur. An archetypical example is the identification of products that often end up together in the same shopping basket in supermarket transactions. A number of...

Molecular biology for bioinformatics - a very short primer

• DNA sequences are the information-containing molecules and are composed of nucleotides from an alphabet of four letters: a, c, g and t. The DNA of an organism plays a central role in its existence. It is arranged in the form of chromosomes. These strings may be millions of nucleotides long, measured in base pairs (bp). The entire set of genetic information of an organism is called its genome....

A PRIMER ON FUZZY OPTIMIZATION MODELS AND METHODS

Fuzzy Linear Programming models and methods has been one ofthe most and well studied topics inside the broad area of Soft Computing. Itsapplications as well as practical realizations can be found in all the real worldareas. In this paper a basic introduction to the main models and methods infuzzy mathematical programming, with special emphasis on those developedby the authors, is presented. As ...

A Primer on Bioethics

A Primer on Metagenomics

Metagenomics is a discipline that enables the genomic study of uncultured microorganisms. Faster, cheaper sequencing technologies and the ability to sequence uncultured microbes sampled directly from their habitats are expanding and transforming our view of the microbial world. Distilling meaningful information from the millions of new genomic sequences presents a serious challenge to bioinform...