Probabilistic Methods for Bioinformatics

Index

Absolute fitness, 230, 234

Abstract model, 8

Accountability, 120

Algorithm

heuristic, 8

model-based, 8

Allele, 68

dominant, 69

less fit, 236

more fit, 236

recessive, 69

relative frequency, 225

Amino acid, 72

Ancestor, 89

Antisense strand, 72

Aperiodic state, 52

Base, 71

Bayes’ Theorem, 17, 33, 85

Bayesian, 35

Bayesian information criterion (BIC), 188, 218, 307

Bayesian network, 86, 90

embedded, 124

equivalent sample size in, 170

Gaussian, 112

hybrid, 115

inference algorithms and pack-ages, 108

inference in, 104

model averaging and, 206

approximate, 214

noisy OR-gate model in, 117

parameter learning in, 165

parameters, 158, 177

structure, 177

structure learning in approximate, 209

constraint-based, 192

score-based, 179

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