% %         -- G. G. Towell, 1991;%            "Symbolic Knowledge and Neural Networks: Insertion, Refinement, and%            Extraction", PhD Thesis, University of Wisconsin - Madison.% %         -- G. G. Towell and J. W. Shavlik, 1992;%            "Interpretation of Artificial Neural Networks: Mapping %            Knowledge-based Neural Networks into Rules", In Advances in Neural%            Information Processing Systems, volume 4, Morgan Kaufmann.% %    (b) attributes predicted: given a position in the middle of a window%        60 DNA sequence elements (called "nucleotides" or "base-pairs"),%        decide if this is a% 	a) "intron -> exon" boundary (ie) [These are sometimes called "donors"]% 	b) "exon -> intron" boundary (ei) [These are sometimes called "acceptors"]% 	c) neither                      (n)%    (c) Results of study indicated that machine learning techniques (neural%        networks, nearest neighbor, contributors' KBANN system) performed as%        well/better than classification based on canonical pattern matching%        (method used in biological literature).% % 4. Relevant Information Paragraph:%    Problem Description: %       Splice junctions are points on a DNA sequence at which `superfluous' DNA is%       removed during the process of protein creation in higher organisms.  The