BACKGROUND With a growing number of genetic tests becoming available to the health and consumer markets, genetic health care providers in Canada are faced with the challenge of developing robust decision rules or guidelines to allocate a finite number of public resources. The objective of this study was to gain Canadian genetic health providers' perspectives on factors and criteria that influen...

Cellular network data has become a hot source of study for extraction of user-mobility and spatio-temporal trends. Location binding in mobility data can be done through different methods like GPS, service provider assisted fauxGPS and Cell Global Identity (CGI). Among these Cell Global Identity is most inexpensive method and readily available solution for mobility extraction; however exact spat...

The Dja Faunal Reserve located in southeastern Cameroon represents the largest and best protected rainforest patch in Cameroon. Here we make available a dataset on the inventory of tree species collected across the Dja. For this study nine 5 km long and 5 m wide transects were installed. All species with a diameter at breast height greater than 10 cm were recorded, identified and measured. A to...

Over the last years many solutions have been proposed for facial expression analyses for emotion assessment, some of which claim high recognition accuracy in real time, even on natural expressions. However, in most (if not all) cases, these studies do not use a publically available and validated dataset for inducing emotions and fail to place the reported performance in the right context by com...

Microarrays, which allow for the measurement of thousands of gene expression levels in parallel, have created a wealth of data not previously available to biologists along with new computational challenges. Microarray studies are characterized by a low sample number and a large feature space with many features irrelevant to the problem being studied. This makes feature selection a necessary pre...

We present a corpus of time-aligned spoken data of Wikipedia articles as well as the pipeline that allows to generate such corpora for many languages. There are initiatives to create and sustain spoken Wikipedia versions in many languages and hence the data is freely available, grows over time, and can be used for automatic corpus creation. Our pipeline automatically downloads and aligns this d...

Rice is the world's most important staple grown by millions of small-holder farmers. Sustaining rice production relies on the intelligent use of rice diversity. The 3,000 Rice Genomes Project is a giga-dataset of publically available genome sequences (averaging 14× depth of coverage) derived from 3,000 accessions of rice with global representation of genetic and functional diversity. The seed o...

Diabetic retinopathy has become one of the major reasons for blindness in world. Early and precise diagnosis disease may save one’s eyesight from irreversible damage. Manual detection lesions is time consuming not be as accurate desirable. Many automated systems have been developed recently to help ophthalmologists their endeavors. Exudates are early signs manifestation diabetic retinopathy. In...

Many approaches to sentiment analysis rely on a lexicon that labels words with a prior polarity. This is particularly true for languages other than English, where labelled training data is not easily available. Existing efforts to produce such lexicons exist, and to avoid duplicated effort, a principled way to combine multiple resources is required. In this paper, we introduce a Bayesian probab...

The technologies monitoring the transcriptome are under a continuous status of development and implementation, producing high amounts of expression data which require reliable and well structured databases. This chapter provides a general overview and a reliable guide of these technologies, as developed from the early ‘90s until today, and of the most important available expression databases. T...