Background: The optimal score for ungapped local alignments of infinitely long random sequences is known to follow a Gumbel extreme value distribution. Less is known about the imp...
Stefan Wolfsheimer, Bernd Burghardt, Alexander K. ...
Residue coevolution has recently emerged as an important concept, especially in the context of protein structures. While a multitude of different functions for quantifying it have...
Kevin Y. Yip, Prianka Patel, Philip M. Kim, Donald...
Background: The impressive increase of novel RNA structures, during the past few years, demands automated methods for structure comparison. While many algorithms handle only small...
Svetlana Kirillova, Silvio C. E. Tosatto, Oliviero...
Background: Protein alignments are an essential tool for many bioinformatics analyses. While sequence alignments are accurate for proteins of high sequence similarity, they become...
Florian Teichert, Jonas Minning, Ugo Bastolla, Mar...
Emerging knowledge of whole prokaryotic transcriptomes could validate a number of theoretical concepts introduced in the early days of genomics. What are the rules connecting gene...
Jeffrey Martin, Wenhan Zhu, Karla D. Passalacqua, ...