Background: While the pairwise alignments produced by sequence similarity searches are a powerful tool for identifying homologous proteins - proteins that share a common ancestor ...
Michael L. Sierk, Michael E. Smoot, Ellen J. Bass,...
Background: Determining beforehand specific positions to align (anchor points) has proved valuable for the accuracy of automated multiple sequence alignment (MSA) software. This f...
Background: Benchmarking algorithms in structural bioinformatics often involves the construction of datasets of proteins with given sequence and structural properties. The SCOP da...
James A. Casbon, Gavin E. Crooks, Mansoor A. S. Sa...
Background: We have recently introduced a predictive framework for studying gene transcriptional regulation in simpler organisms using a novel supervised learning algorithm called...
Anshul Kundaje, Manuel Middendorf, Mihir Shah, Chr...
This paper discusses a mathematical concept of language that models both artificial and natural languages and thus provides a framework for a unified language processing methodolo...