Search Results - "Almirantis, Yannis"

An overview of the BIOASQ large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering competition by Tsatsaronis, George, Balikas, Georgios, Malakasiotis, Prodromos, Partalas, Ioannis, Zschunke, Matthias, Alvers, Michael R, Weissenborn, Dirk, Krithara, Anastasia, Petridis, Sergios, Polychronopoulos, Dimitris, Almirantis, Yannis, Pavlopoulos, John, Baskiotis, Nicolas, Gallinari, Patrick, Artiéres, Thierry, Ngomo, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga, Heino, Norman, Gaussier, Eric, Barrio-Alvers, Liliana, Schroeder, Michael, Androutsopoulos, Ion, Paliouras, Georgios

“…This article provides an overview of the first BIOASQ challenge, a competition on large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering (QA), which…”
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Introduction of ‘Generalized Genomic Signatures’ for the quantification of neighbour preferences leads to taxonomy- and functionality-based distinction among sequences by Apostolou-Karampelis, Konstantinos, Polychronopoulos, Dimitris, Almirantis, Yannis

“…Analysis of DNA composition at several length scales constitutes the bulk of many early studies aimed at unravelling the complexity of the organization and…”
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Conserved noncoding elements follow power-law-like distributions in several genomes as a result of genome dynamics by Polychronopoulos, Dimitris, Sellis, Diamantis, Almirantis, Yannis

“…Conserved, ultraconserved and other classes of constrained elements (collectively referred as CNEs here), identified by comparative genomics in a wide variety…”
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Alu and LINE1 Distributions in the Human Chromosomes: Evidence of Global Genomic Organization Expressed in the Form of Power Laws by Sellis, Diamantis, Provata, Astero, Almirantis, Yannis

“…Spatial distribution and clustering of repetitive elements are extensively studied during the last years, as well as their colocalization with other genomic…”
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Evolutionary Constraints Favor a Biophysical Model Explaining Hox Gene Collinearity by Almirantis, Yannis, Provata, Astero, Papageorgiou, Spyros

“…The Hox gene collinearity enigma has often been approached using models based on biomolecular mechanisms. The biophysical model is an alternative approach…”
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A Study of Fractality and Long-Range Order in the Distribution of Transposable Elements in Eukaryotic Genomes Using the Scaling Properties of Block Entropy and Box-Counting by Labrini Athanasopoulou, Diamantis Sellis, Yannis Almirantis

“…Repeats or Transposable Elements (TEs) are highly repeated sequence stretches, present in virtually all eukaryotic genomes. We explore the distribution of…”
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Range-limited Heaps’ law for functional DNA words in the human genome by Li, Wentian, Almirantis, Yannis, Provata, Astero

“…Heaps’ or Herdan-Heaps’ law is a linguistic law describing the relationship between the vocabulary/dictionary size (type) and word counts (token) to be a…”
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Noether’s Theorem as a Metaphor for Chargaff’s 2nd Parity Rule in Genomics by Almirantis, Yannis, Provata, Astero, Li, Wentian

“…In the present note, the genomic compositional rule largely known as ‘Chargaff’s 2nd parity rule’ (asserting equimolarity between Adenine–Thymine and…”
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Ultra-High Dilutions and Homeopathy: Can They Be Explained without Non-Local Theory? by Almirantis, Yannis, Tsitinidis, Konstantinos

“…We discuss questions related to the 'Benveniste Affair', its consequences and broader issues in an attempt to understand homeopathy. Specifically, we address…”
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Homeopathy--between tradition and modern science: remedies as carriers of significance by Almirantis, Yannis

“…The healing potential and description of homeopathic remedies, as determined in homeopathic pathogenic trials (HPTs) and verified by medical experience, are…”
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Fractality and entropic scaling in the chromosomal distribution of conserved noncoding elements in the human genome by Polychronopoulos, Dimitris, Athanasopoulou, Labrini, Almirantis, Yannis

“…Conserved non-coding elements (CNEs) are defined using various degrees of sequence identity and thresholds of minimal length. Their conservation frequently…”
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A novel skew analysis reveals substitution asymmetries linked to genetic code GC-biases and PolIII a-subunit isoforms by Apostolou-Karampelis, Konstantinos, Nikolaou, Christoforos, Almirantis, Yannis

“…Strand biases reflect deviations from a null expectation of DNA evolution that assumes strand-symmetric substitution rates. Here, we present strong evidence…”
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Power-laws in the genomic distribution of coding segments in several organisms: an evolutionary trace of segmental duplications, possible paleopolyploidy and gene loss by Sellis, Diamantis, Almirantis, Yannis

“…Large-scale features of the spatial arrangement of protein-coding segments (PCS) are investigated by means of the inter-PCS spacers' size distributions, which…”
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BioASQ Synergy: a dialogue between question-answering systems and biomedical experts for promoting COVID-19 research by Krithara, Anastasia, Nentidis, Anastasios, Vandorou, Eirini, Katsimpras, Georgios, Almirantis, Yannis, Arnal, Magda, Bunevicius, Adomas, Farre-Maduell, Eulalia, Kassiss, Maya, Konstantakos, Vasileios, Matis-Mitchell, Sherri, Polychronopoulos, Dimitris, Rodriguez-Pascual, Jesus, Samaras, Eleftherios G, Samiotaki, Martina, Sanoudou, Despina, Vozi, Aspasia, Paliouras, Georgios

“…Abstract Objective This article presents the novel BioASQ Synergy research process which aims to facilitate the interaction between biomedical experts and…”
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Widespread occurrence of power-law distributions in inter-repeat distances shaped by genome dynamics by Klimopoulos, Alexandros, Sellis, Diamantis, Almirantis, Yannis

“…Repetitive DNA sequences derived from transposable elements (TE) are distributed in a non-random way, co-clustering with other classes of repeat elements,…”
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Classification of selectively constrained DNA elements using feature vectors and rule-based classifiers by Polychronopoulos, Dimitris, Weitschek, Emanuel, Dimitrieva, Slavica, Bucher, Philipp, Felici, Giovanni, Almirantis, Yannis

“…Scarce work has been done in the analysis of the composition of conserved non-coding elements (CNEs) that are identified by comparisons of two or more genomes…”
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Deviations from Chargaff's second parity rule in organellar DNA Insights into the evolution of organellar genomes by Nikolaou, Christoforos, Almirantis, Yannis

“…Chargaff' s second parity rule (PR2) states that complementary nucleotides are met with almost equal frequencies in single stranded DNA. This is indeed the…”
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Orphan and gene related CpG Islands follow power-law-like distributions in several genomes: Evidence of function-related and taxonomy-related modes of distribution by Tsiagkas, Giannis, Nikolaou, Christoforos, Almirantis, Yannis

“…CpG Islands (CGIs) are compositionally defined short genomic stretches, which have been studied in the human, mouse, chicken and later in several other…”
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Extending 1089 attractor to any number of digits and any number of steps by Almirantis, Yannis, Li, Wentian

“…The well-known 1089 trick reflects an amazing trait of digital reversal process and reminisces of a limiting attractor in dynamical systems even though it…”
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Rich dynamical behaviors from a digital reversal operation by Almirantis, Yannis, Li, Wentian

“…An operation that maps one natural number to another can be considered as a dynamical system in $\mathbb{N}^+$. Some of such systems, e.g. the mapping in the…”
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