Nitric oxide (NO) is a simple ubiquitous signaling molecule and plays important roles in almost every biological system. Recent evidences suggest that NO may act as an endocrine molecule. The aim of this review is considering available literature on endocrine roles of NO and/or its metabolites, i.e. nitrite and nitrate. Existing data suggest the idea that NO is a hormone that after production i...

The classical evidence theory can result in paradox in the process of information fusion. To resolve this problem, a multi-source data fusion method based on dissimilarity matrix and evidence theory is proposed. First, using the weighted Euclidean distance, evidence dissimilarity matrix is constructed. Second, dissimilarity between the evidences is measured. Third, using dissimilarity matrix, s...

Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) have been used in genome informatics in many ways. In most cases, the output symbols of the HMMs are the four letters of nucleotide acids [2, 4, 9] or the twenty letters of amino acids [1, 7, 6]. However, we can build HMMs which have the other kinds of output symbols. We propose a new method which combine the sequence information and other pre-processed information b...