Python Programming for Biology: Bioinformatics and Beyond

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As far as human visual appreciation of light is concerned.

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A certain number of points best determined by experimentation.

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Just an unfortunate coincidence in terminology, this is a different k to before.

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 Alternative  metrics  might  be  things  like  Hamming  distance,  the  minimum  number  of

substitutions  to  convert  one  sequence  to  another,  or  non-Euclidian  distances  like  the

surface distance between points on a sphere.

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 Kohonen,  T.  (1982).  Self-organized  formation  of  topologically  correct  feature  maps.

Biological Cybernetics 43(1): 59–69.