Linking taxonomic identity and functional potential at the population-level is important for the study of mixed microbial communities and is greatly facilitated by the availability of microbial reference genomes. While the culture-independent recovery of population-level genomes from environmental samples using the binning of metagenomic data has expanded available reference genome catalogs, se...

Motivation The advent of next-generation sequencing technologies enables researchers to sequence complex microbial communities directly from the environment. Because assembly typically produces only genome fragments, also known as contigs, instead of an entire genome, it is crucial to group them into operational taxonomic units (OTUs) for further taxonomic profiling and down-streaming functiona...

Since its initial discovery just over a decade ago, blinking of semiconductor nanocrystals has typically been described in terms of probability distributions for durations of bright, or "on," states and dark, or "off," states. These distributions are obtained by binning photon counts in order to construct a time series for emission intensity and then applying a threshold to distinguish on state...

Credit scoring can be defined as a statistical modeling technique used to assign risk to credit applicants or to existing credit accounts. We present a new process that enhances the formulation and solution approach in the SAS® system during the so-called “binning” phase by exploiting SAS/OR optimization capabilities to approach the problem from a mathematically rigorous perspective. Usually, a...

Parallel coordinates is a widely used visualization technique for presenting, analyzing and exploring multidimensional data. However, like many other visualizations, it can suffer from an overplotting problem when rendering large data sets. Until now, quite a few methods are proposed to discover and illustrate the major data trends in cluttered parallel coordinates. Among them, frequency-based ...

In this paper, we investigate local permutation tests for testing conditional independence between two random vectors X and Y given Z. The test determines the significance of a statistic by locally shuffling samples, which share similar values conditioning variables Z, it forms natural extension usual approach unconditional testing. Despite its simplicity empirical support, theoretical underpin...

Metagenomic projects using whole-genome shotgun (WGS) sequencing produces many unassembled DNA sequences and small contigs. The step of clustering these sequences, based on biological and molecular features, is called binning. A reported strategy for binning that combines oligonucleotide frequency and self-organising maps (SOM) shows high potential. We improve this strategy by identifying suita...

In this paper we provide an achievable rate region for the discrete memoryless multiple access channel with correlated state information known non-causally at the encoders using a random binning technique. This result is a generalization of the random binning technique used by Gel’fand and Pinsker for the problem with non-causal channel state information at the encoder in point to point communi...

This paper explores an alternative means of hadronic W reconstruction in the search for a fourth-generation down-type quark. Whereas previous methods of reconstruction used anti-Kt-4 dijets, proposed reconstruction involves single anti-Kt-4 jets as well as dijets. This new means of hadronic W reconstruction improves expected limit-setting by 40 GeV and raises the possibility of further improvem...

[Draft] In this paper, the redundancy of Slepian Wolf coding is revisited. Applying the random binning and converse technique in [6], the same results in [5] are obtained with much simpler proofs. Moreover, our results reflect more details about the high-order terms of the coding rate. The redundancy is investigated for both fixed-rate and variable-rate cases. The normal approximation (or dispe...