An improved version of the fragment-based flexible ligand docking approach SEED-FFLD is tested on inhibitors of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 protease, human alpha-thrombin and the estrogen receptor beta. The docking results indicate that it is possible to correctly reproduce the binding mode of inhibitors with more than ten rotatable bonds if the strain in their covalent geometry upon bi...

Gene-gene interactions have long been recognized to be fundamentally important for understanding genetic causes of complex disease traits. At present, identifying gene-gene interactions from genome-wide case-control studies is computationally and methodologically challenging. In this paper, we introduce a simple but powerful method, named "BOolean Operation-based Screening and Testing" (BOOST)....

Subnetworks can reveal the complex patterns of the whole-genome network by extracting the interactions that depend on temporal, spatial, or condition specific context. In this paper we present an optimization framework to identify condition specific subnetworks. This framework allows us to identify the most coherent subnetwork by integrating the information from both nodes and edges in the grap...

CS1 courses are designed in Indian Institutions as a lecture course of three to four credits and one credit lab course. The issues related curriculum design, instruction students’ le...

Recently, artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled virtual humans have been widely used in various fields our everyday lives, such as for museum exhibitions and information guides. Given the continued technological innovations extended reality (XR), immersive display devices interaction methods are evolving to provide a feeling of togetherness with human, termed co-presence. With regard technical d...

Abstract Higher education institutions are increasingly implementing peer tutoring and mentoring strategies to support newly enrolled students’ transition into university, aiming reduce drop-out improve persistence. However, it is rare that these directly compared, even rarer for effects on social academic integration institutional attachment be explored, as in this study. In quantitative quali...

The number of smart products in our daily life and thus the interaction with them is constantly increasing. In order to facilitate the interaction, smart products require different types of knowledge: knowledge about the user model, workflows, the domain and the context. In this paper, we point out how these different types of knowledge can enhance the interaction and how they can be gathered.