George Salt. 12 December 1903 – 17 February 2003

Computational Genomics Fall Semester , 2003 Lecture 8 : December 17 , 2003

Our goal is to model biological processes given biological data. It is essential for such a model to be of probabilistic nature, since measurements are noisy and molecular biology itself has stochastic characteristics. In this lecture Bayesian networks [4, 8] will be introduced , these provide graphical representation of joint probability distributions in a compact way. These networks are usefu...

George Wells Beadle (1903-1989)

George Wells Beadle [3] studied corn, fruit flies, and funguses in the US during the twentieth century. These studies helped Beadle earn the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine [4]. Beadle shared the prize with Edward Tatum for their discovery that genes [5] help regulate chemical processes in and between cells. This finding, initially termed the one gene-one enzyme hypothesis, helped sc...

Astronomy Astrophysics manuscript no. H4001 February 17, 2003

Report on the INEX 2003 Workshop , Schloss Dagstuhl , 15 - 17 December 2003

The widespread use of the eXtensible Markup Language (XML), especially the increasing use of XML in scientific data repositories, digital libraries and on the web, brought about an explosion in the development of XML retrieval systems to store and access XML content [BGS03]. These retrieval systems exploit the logical structure of the documents, which is explicitly represented by the XML markup...

George Wells Beadle - 23 October 1903--9 June 1989.