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Mechanical Behavior of Micro-Drops in EWOD Systems: drop extraction, division, motion and constraining

Berthier J., Clementz Ph., Jary D., Raccurt O., Claustre P., Peponnet C., Fouillet Y., CEA-LETI, FR

We present a novel contribution to the design of electrowetting microdevices (EWOD) by using an energy minimization approach. Altough the dynamics of motion of microdrops by electrowetting may be rapid, it is shown that, due [...]

Competitive Template Analysis of the Fast Messy Genetic Algorithm When Applied to the Protein Structure Prediction Problem

Day R.O., Zydallis J.B., Lamont G.B., Air Force Institute of Technology, US

The Protein Structure Prediction (PSP) problem is a Grand Challenge problem among biochemists, computer scientists and engineers alike. Solving this problem involves correctly predicting the geometrical conformation of a fully folded protein. This paper focuses [...]

Solving the Protein Structure Prediction Problem Through a Multiobjective Genetic Algorithm

Day R.O., Zydallis J.B., Lamont G.B., Pachter R., Air Force Institute of Technology, US

The Protein Structure Prediction (PSP) problem is a Grand Challenge problem among biochemists, computer scientists and engineers alike. Solving this problem involves correctly predicting the geometrical conformation of a fully folded protein. This paper focuses [...]

Detecting Secondary Peptide Structures by Scaling a Genetic Algorithm

Michaud S.R., Zydallis J.B., Lamont G.B., Pachter R., Air Force Institute of Technology, US

The ability to accurately predict a polypeptide's molecular structure given its amino acid sequence is important to numerous scientific, medical, and engineering applications. Studies have been conducted in the application of Genetic Algorithms (GAs) to [...]