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NAR
2006
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13 years 8 months ago
MAVL/StickWRLD: analyzing structural constraints using interpositional dependencies in biomolecular sequence alignments
The increasing availability of structurally aligned protein families has made it possible to use statistical methods to discover regions of interpositional dependenciesof residue ...
Hatice Gulcin Ozer, William C. Ray
BMCBI
2004
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13 years 7 months ago
GASP: Gapped Ancestral Sequence Prediction for proteins
Background: The prediction of ancestral protein sequences from multiple sequence alignments is useful for many bioinformatics analyses. Predicting ancestral sequences is not a sim...
Richard J. Edwards, Denis C. Shields
BMCBI
2006
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13 years 8 months ago
Incorporating background frequency improves entropy-based residue conservation measures
Background: Several entropy-based methods have been developed for scoring sequence conservation in protein multiple sequence alignments. High scoring amino acid positions may corr...
Kai Wang, Ram Samudrala
WABI
2005
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Multiple Structural RNA Alignment with Lagrangian Relaxation
In contrast to proteins, many classes of functionally related RNA molecules show a rather weak sequence conservation but instead a fairly well conserved secondary structure. Hence ...
Markus Bauer, Gunnar W. Klau, Knut Reinert
ALMOB
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
Syntenator: Multiple gene order alignments with a gene-specific scoring function
Background: Identification of homologous regions or conserved syntenies across genomes is one crucial step in comparative genomics. This task is usually performed by genome alignm...
Christian Rödelsperger, Christoph Dieterich