ricerca for Python
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About
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ricerca is a python implementation of FALCON: Feedback Adaptive Loop for Content-Based Retrieval. For more details on the algorithm please refer to the article 

* Leejay Wu, Christos Faloutsos, Katia P. Sycara, and Terry R. Payne. 2000. FALCON: Feedback Adaptive Loop for Content-Based Retrieval. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB '00), Amr El Abbadi, Michael L. Brodie, Sharma Chakravarthy, Umeshwar Dayal, Nabil Kamel, Gunter Schlageter, and Kyu-Young Whang (Eds.). Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA, 297-306. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~christos/PUBLICATIONS/vldb2k-falcon.pdf

For more information about ricerca, please visit http://murphylab.web.cmu.edu/software/ricerca/

Authors
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| Ivan Cao-Berg, Baek Hwan Cho, Jennifer Bakal and Robert F. Murphy
| Lane Center for Computational Biology
| School of Computer Science
| Carnegie Mellon University
| http://lane.compbio.cmu.edu/

Reference 
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B.H. Cho, I. Cao-Berg, J.A. Bakal, and R.F. Murphy (2012) OMERO.searcher: Content-based image search for microscope images. Nature Methods 9:633-634. 