We use an iterative process of multi-gram alignment between associated words in different languages in an attempt to identify cognates. To maximise the amount of data, we use practical orthographies instead of consistently coded phonetic transcriptions. First results indicate that using practical orthographies can be useful, the more so when dealing with large amounts of data.

Porphyromonas gingivalis is a major pathogen associated with chronic periodontitis. The organism's cell-surface cysteine proteinases, the Arg-specific proteinases (RgpA, RgpB) and the Lys-specific proteinase (Kgp), which are known as gingipains have been implicated as major virulence factors. All three gingipain precursors contain a propeptide of around 200 amino acids in length that is removed...

We present a formal analysis of ribosome kinetics using probabilistic model checking and the tool Prism. We compute different parameters of the model, like probabilities of translation errors and average insertion times per codon. The model predicts strong correlation to the quotient of the concentrations of the so-called cognate and near-cognate tRNAs, in accord with experimental findings and ...

We apply Support Vector Machines to differentiate between 11 native languages in the 2013 Native Language Identification Shared Task. We expand a set of common language identification features to include cognate interference and spelling mistakes. Our best results are obtained with a classifier which includes both the cognate and the misspelling features, as well as word unigrams, word bigrams,...