Bayesian Methods for Hackers : An intro to Bayesian methods + probabilistic programming with a computation/understanding-first, mathematics-second point of view.
For two weeks last July, I cocooned myself in a hotel in Portland, OR, living and breathing probabilistic programming as a “student” in the probabilistic programming summer school run by DARPA.
Stan modeling language and C++ library for Bayesian inference. NUTS adaptive HMC (MCMC) sampling, automatic differentiation, R, shell interfaces. Gelman.
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Abstract
One of the major goals of computational sequence analysis is to find sequence similarities, which could serve as
evidence of structural and functional conservation, as well as of evolutionary relations among the sequences. Since
the degree of similarity is usually assessed by the sequence alignment score, it is necessary to know if a score is high
enough to indicate a biologically interesting alignment. A powerful approach to defining score cutoffs is based on the
evaluation of the statistical significance of alignments. The statistical significance of an alignment score is frequently
assessed by its P-value, which is the probability that this score or a higher one can occur simply by chance, given the
probabilistic models for the sequences. In this review we discuss the general role of P-value estimation in sequence
analysis, and give a description of theoretical methods and computational approaches to the estimation of statistical
signifiance for important classes of sequence analysis problems. In particular, we concentrate on the P-value estimation
techniques for single sequence studies (both score-based and score-free), global and local pairwise sequence
alignments, multiple alignments, sequence-to-profile alignments and alignments built with hidden Markov models.
We anticipate that the review will be useful both to. researchers professionally working in bioinformatics as well as
to biomedical scientists interested in using contemporary methods of DNA and protein sequence analysis.
"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" is a sentence composed by Noam Chomsky in 1957 as an example of a sentence whose grammar is correct but whose meaning is nonsensical. It was used to show inadequacy of the then-popular probabilistic models of gramma
"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" is a sentence composed by Noam Chomsky in 1957 as an example of a sentence whose grammar is correct but whose meaning is nonsensical. It was used to show inadequacy of the then-popular probabilistic models of gramma
H. Bai, D. Hsu, W. Lee, и V. Ngo. Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics IX, том 68 из Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, глава 11, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg, (2011)