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BioMed Research International
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 340620, 6 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/340620
Research Article

State-of-the-Art Fusion-Finder Algorithms Sensitivity and Specificity

Matteo Carrara,1 Marco Beccuti,2 Fulvio Lazzarato,3 Federica Cavallo,1 Francesca Cordero,2 Susanna Donatelli,2 and Raffaele A. Calogero1

1Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Health Sciences, University of Torino, Via Nizza 52, 10126 Torino, Italy
2Department of Computer Science, University of Torino, C.So Svizzera 185, 10149 Torino, Italy
3Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, University of Torino, 10126 Torino, Italy

Received 4 October 2012; Revised 11 January 2013; Accepted 15 January 2013

Academic Editor: Tun-Wen Pai

Copyright © 2013 Matteo Carrara et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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