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Agents and Data Mining in Bioinformatics: Joining Data Gathering and Automatic Annotation with Classification and Distributed Clustering

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Agents and Data Mining Interaction (ADMI 2009)

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Multiagent systems and data mining techniques are being frequently used in genome projects, especially regarding the annotation process (annotation pipeline). This paper discusses annotation-related problems where agent-based and/or distributed data mining has been successfully employed.

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  1. Instituto de Informática, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Caixa Postal 15064, 91.501-970, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

    Ana L. C. Bazzan

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  1. Faculty of IT, University of Technology, Broadway, P.O. Box 123, 2007, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Longbing Cao

  2. St. Petersburg Intitute for Informaticsand Automation, 39, 14-th Liniya, 199178, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Vladimir Gorodetsky

  3. Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Jiming Liu

  4. Software Competence Center Hagenberg GmbH, Softwarepark 21, 4232, Hagenberg, Austria

    Gerhard Weiss

  5. Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, 851 S. Morgan St., Rm 1138 SEO, 60607, Chicago, IL, USA

    Philip S. Yu

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Bazzan, A.L.C. (2009). Agents and Data Mining in Bioinformatics: Joining Data Gathering and Automatic Annotation with Classification and Distributed Clustering. In: Cao, L., Gorodetsky, V., Liu, J., Weiss, G., Yu, P.S. (eds) Agents and Data Mining Interaction. ADMI 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5680. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03603-3_1

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