Search algorithms & popularity factors: link, social, click, blog, industry. Since modern search engines are concerned with popularity and not direct relevancy, & big firms up the price of text link buying beyond affordability...
A Tutorial and Recipe Book for Those in a Hurry - Provides an owerview of what can be done with the BioJava API: All sorts of string manipulation, HMMs, Trees etc.
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