Background: The imprint of natural selection on gene sequences is often difficult to detect. A plethora of methods have been devised to detect genetic changes due to selective pro...
Vicente Arnau, Miguel Gallach, J. Ignasi Lucas, Ig...
Multiple sequence alignments are essential in homology inference, structure modeling, functional prediction and phylogenetic analysis. We developed a web server that constructs mu...
Jimin Pei, Bong-Hyun Kim, Ming Tang, Nick V. Grish...
Background: Genome-wide association studies of common diseases for common, low penetrance causal variants are underway. A proportion of these will alter protein sequences, the mos...
David F. Burke, Catherine L. Worth, Eva-Maria Prie...
Background: Structural properties of proteins such as secondary structure and solvent accessibility contribute to three-dimensional structure prediction, not only in the ab initio...
Gianluca Pollastri, Alberto J. M. Martin, Catherin...
Background: The availability of complete genomic sequences for hundreds of organisms promises to make obtaining genome-wide estimates of substitution rates, selective constraints ...
Amy Egan, Anup Mahurkar, Jonathan Crabtree, Jonath...