Two graduate students attached to the BioInformatics Research Centre (BIRC),
NTU, has been awarded 50,000 yen each for the recognition as young scientists based
on their work to be presented at the Fourteenth International Conference on Genome
Informatics in Yokohama, Japan. The two papers which won the awards are "Multi-class
Support Vector Machines for Protein Secondary Structure Prediction," by M. N. Nguyen
and J. C. Rajapakse, and "Splice site detection with a higher-order Markov model
implemented on a neural network," by S. L. Ho and J. C. Rajapakse. Both students are
in the third year of their Ph.D.s and from School of Computer Engineering.