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Published November 16, 2004 | Submitted + Published
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Parametric Inference for Biological Sequence Analysis

Abstract

One of the major successes in computational biology has been the unification, by using the graphical model formalism, of a multitude of algorithms for annotating and comparing biological sequences. Graphical models that have been applied to these problems include hidden Markov models for annotation, tree models for phylogenetics, and pair hidden Markov models for alignment. A single algorithm, the sum-product algorithm, solves many of the inference problems that are associated with different statistical models. This article introduces the polytope propagation algorithm for computing the Newton polytope of an observation from a graphical model. This algorithm is a geometric version of the sum-product algorithm and is used to analyze the parametric behavior of maximum a posteriori inference calculations for graphical models.

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© 2004 The National Academy of Sciences. Communicated by Stephen E. Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, September 10, 2004 (received for review January 25, 2004) L.P. was supported in part by National Institutes of Health Grant R01-HG02362-02. B.S. was supported by a Hewlett Packard Visiting Research Professorship 2003/2004 at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) at the University of California, Berkeley, and in part by National Science Foundation Grant DMS-0200729.

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