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BMCBI
2010
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Reduced representation of protein structure: implications on efficiency and scope of detection of structural similarity
Background: Computational comparison of two protein structures is the starting point of many methods that build on existing knowledge, such as structure modeling (including modeli...
Zong Hong Zhang, Hwee Kuan Lee, Ivana Mihalek
BMCBI
2006
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A statistical score for assessing the quality of multiple sequence alignments
Background: Multiple sequence alignment is the foundation of many important applications in bioinformatics that aim at detecting functionally important regions, predicting protein...
Virpi Ahola, Tero Aittokallio, Mauno Vihinen, Esa ...
BIBM
2008
IEEE
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Towards Site-Based Protein Functional Annotations
Abstract—The exact relationship between protein active centers and protein functions is unclear even after decades of intensive study. To improve the functional prediction abilit...
Seak Fei Lei, Jun Huan
BMCBI
2005
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TMB-Hunt: An amino acid composition based method to screen proteomes for beta-barrel transmembrane proteins
Background: Beta-barrel transmembrane (bbtm) proteins are a functionally important and diverse group of proteins expressed in the outer membranes of bacteria (both gram negative a...
Andrew G. Garrow, Alison Agnew, David R. Westhead
BMCBI
2005
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ProfNet, a method to derive profile-profile alignment scoring functions that improves the alignments of distantly related protei
Background: Profile-profile methods have been used for some years now to detect and align homologous proteins. The best such methods use information from the background distributi...
Tomas Ohlson, Arne Elofsson