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Orchestrating chromosome conformation capture analysis with Bioconductor

Genome-wide chromatin conformation capture assays provide formidable insights into the spatial organization of genomes. However, due to the complexity of the data structure, their integration in multi-omics workflows remains challenging. We present data st ...

Nature Research2024

ROSMOSE: A Web-based Optimization Tool to Aid Decision-making for the Design and Operation of Industrial and Urban Energy Systems

François Maréchal, Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego, Meire Ellen Gorete Ribeiro Domingos, Cédric Terrier, Michel Lopez

Energy efficiency is crucial for the sustainable operation of all industrial and urban sectors. However, practicing engineers have seldom access to open-source tools that can readily evaluate and compare scenarios in terms of energy consumption, cost, and ...

2023

The JPEG AI Standard: Providing Efficient Human and Machine Visual Data Consumption

Touradj Ebrahimi

The Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) AI learning-based image coding system is an ongoing joint standardization effort between International Organization for Standardization (ISO), International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), and International Te ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2023

High-dimensional Data Cubes

Christoph Koch, Sachin Basil John

This paper introduces an approach to supporting high-dimensional data cubes at interactive query speeds and moderate storage cost. The approach is based on binary(-domain) data cubes that are judiciously partially materialized; the missing information can ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2022

High-dimensional Data Cubes

Christoph Koch, Sachin Basil John

This paper introduces an approach to supporting high-dimensional data cubes at interactive query speeds and moderate storage cost. The approach is based on binary(-domain) data cubes that are judiciously partially materialized; the missing information can ...

2022

Holistic, Efficient, and Real-time Cleaning of Heterogeneous Data

Styliani Asimina Giannakopoulou

Data cleaning has become an indispensable part of data analysis due to the increasing amount of dirty data. Data scientists spend most of their time preparing dirty data before it can be used for data analysis. Existing solutions that attempt to automate t ...

EPFL2021

Following spatial A beta aggregation dynamics in evolving Alzheimer's disease pathology by imaging stable isotope labeling kinetics

Anders Meibom, Stéphane Laurent Escrig, Melissa Kathleen Passarelli

beta-Amyloid (A beta) plaque formation is the major pathological hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and constitutes a potentially critical, early inducer driving AD pathogenesis as it precedes other pathological events and cognitive symptoms by decades. ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2021

Computational tool for stock-constrained design of structures

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Jan Friedrich Georg Brütting, Jonas Warmuth

Designing structures from reused elements is becoming an increasingly important design task for structural engineers as it has potential to significantly reduce adverse environmental impacts of building structures. To allow for a broad application of this ...

2021

Automated Design: A Journey Across Modelling, Optimization, and Education

Cyril Picard

Machine intelligence greatly impacts almost all domains of our societies. It is profoundly changing the field of mechanical engineering with new technical possibilities and processes. The education of future engineers also needs to adapt in terms of techni ...

EPFL2021

Radial Scope: A New Visualization Tool for Structure-Data Relationships

Simon Leonard Dürr

Communication of data associated with chemical structures in a concise fashion can be challenging. Here, we describe an alternative to the classic substrate table that integrates numerical data with struttural changes. These radial-scopeplots facilitate th ...

2020

Data-driven method for low-carbon building design at early stages

Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme

The Paris agreement on climate change called for carbon neutrality as of 2050. The built environment is one of the major contributors to the greenhouse effect, representing 39% of global emissions. As a result, this sector is targeted by green standards an ...

EPFL2020

Sub-Matrix Factorization for Real-Time Vote Prediction

Patrick Thiran, Matthias Grossglauser, Victor Kristof

We address the problem of predicting aggregate vote outcomes (e.g., national) from partial outcomes (e.g., regional) that are revealed sequentially. We combine matrix factorization techniques and generalized linear models (GLMs) to obtain a flexible, effic ...

2020

Improved susceptibility-weighted imaging for high contrast and resolution thalamic nuclei mapping at 7T

Meritxell Bach Cuadra, Constantin Tuleasca, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Daniel Gallichan, João Pedro Forjaco Jorge, Frédéric Gretsch

Purpose The thalamus is an important brain structure and neurosurgical target, but its constituting nuclei are challenging to image non-invasively. Recently, susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI) at ultra-high field has shown promising capabilities for tha ...

Wiley2020

Adaptive partitioning and indexing for in situ query processing

Anastasia Ailamaki, Ioannis Alagiannis, Manolis Karpathiotakis, Manoussos Gavriil Athanassoulis, Matthaios Alexandros Olma

The constant flux of data and queries alike has been pushing the boundaries of data analysis systems. The increasing size of raw data files has made data loading an expensive operation that delays the data-to-insight time. To alleviate the loading cost, in ...

SPRINGER2020

Contact networks across ages: computational analysis of epidemiological dynamics

Gianrocco Lazzari

For decades mathematical modeling in epidemiology has helped understanding the dynamics of infectious diseases, as well as describe possible intervention scenarios to prevent and control them. However, such models were relying on several assumptions, such ...

EPFL2020

The Fifteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release of MaNGA-derived Quantities, Data Visualization Tools, and Stellar Library

Anand Stéphane Raichoor, David Schlegel, Zheng Zheng

Twenty years have passed since first light for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Here, we release data taken by the fourth phase of SDSS (SDSS-IV) across its first three years of operation (2014 July-2017 July). This is the third data release for SDSS-I ...

2019

Time- and Space-Efficient Spatial Data Analytics

Mirjana Pavlovic

Advances in data acquisition technologies and supercomputing for large-scale simulations have led to an exponential growth in the volume of spatial data. This growth is accompanied by an increase in data complexity, such as spatial density, but also by mor ...

EPFL2019

Improving life cycle-based exploration methods by coupling sensitivity analysis and metamodels

Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme

Exploration methods combine parametric energy assessments and data visualization to support building designers at early design stages. When exploration methods come to Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) and the Global Warming Potential (GWP) assessment, a larger ...

2019

Comparison of MRI-based automated segmentation methods and functional neurosurgery targeting with direct visualization of the Ventro-intermediate thalamic nucleus at 7T

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Meritxell Bach Cuadra, Constantin Tuleasca, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Daniel Gallichan, João Pedro Forjaco Jorge

The ventro-intermediate nucleus (Vim), as part of the motor thalamic nuclei, is a commonly used target in functional stereotactic neurosurgery for treatment of drug-resistant tremor. As it cannot be directly visualized on routinely used magnetic resonance ...

Nature Research2019

Training in Mapping Changes on an Archaeological Site

Bertrand Merminod, Pierre-Yves Gilliéron, Jérôme Zufferey

The evolution of technologies makes surveying accessible to a broader community of professionals and students. Therefore, teaching geomatics is a continuous challenge. This article presents an original pedagogical approach based on a teaching unit gatherin ...

2018