String Kernels License Agreement

String Kernels Package License

Eleazar Eskin
eeskin-at-cs.columbia.edu 
   * Original spectrum/mismatch kernel code

Rui Kuang and Ke Wang
rkuang-at-cs.columbia.edu
kewang-at-cs.columbia.edu
   * Implementation of profile kernel code

Tze Way Eugene Ie
eie-at-cs.columbia.edu
   * Automation setup for running experiments using kernel code
   * Motif extraction code

Feel free to use the package in your academic research. If you use it, please
cite the following papers:

Spectrum and Mismatch Kernels
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Christina Leslie, Eleazar Eskin and William Stafford Noble,
"The Spectrum Kernel: A String Kernel for SVM Protein Classification".
In Proceedings of the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB 2002). 
Kaua'i, Hawaii: January 2-7, 2002.

Christina Leslie, Eleazar Eskin, Adiel Cohen, Jason Weston and William
Stafford Noble, "Mismatch String Kernels for Discriminative Protein 
Classification". Bioinformatics, 20:4, pp. 467-476, 2004.

Christina Leslie, Eleazar Eskin, Jason Weston and William 
Stafford Noble, "Mismatch String Kernels for SVM Protein 
Classification". Neural Information Processing Systems 2002 (NIPS 2002).
Vancouver, December 9-14, 2002.

Profile Kernel
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Rui Kuang, Eugene Ie, Ke Wang, Kai Wang, Mahira Siddiqi,
Yoav Freund and Christina Leslie, "Profile-based String Kernels for 
Remote Homology Eetection and Motif Extraction". Accepted, Computational
Systems Bioinformatics 2004 (CSB 2004), Stanford, CA, August 16-19, 2004.
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