But the court denied the biotechnology company's effort to patent methods of "comparing" or "analyzing" DNA sequences.
Our gaze similarity derivation of NSS is preferable over alternative methods of comparing the distribution of gaze between two groups.
The experiment had two direct aims: to verify whether the relative contribution of size to apparent heaviness can differ for different stimulus sets, and to verify whether that contribution can differ for different methods of comparing two objects (consecutive vs. simultaneous weighing).
This effect should be kept in mind when trying to determine if a file is a duplicate of another although there are other methods of comparing files for equality like using checksum algorithms.
The large variation in sampling methods and effort among the studies compiled in our deep-sea database precluded the use of more traditional methods of comparing biodiversity within our system (e.g. comparisons of univariate diversity metrics).
Methods of comparing the normalised data are also abundant, and no clear consensus has yet been reached.
