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BMCBI
2006
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Using the nucleotide substitution rate matrix to detect horizontal gene transfer
Background: Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) has allowed bacteria to evolve many new capabilities. Because transferred genes perform many medically important functions, such as conf...
Micah Hamady, M. D. Betterton, Rob Knight
BMCBI
2010
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Predicting nucleosome positioning using a duration Hidden Markov Model
Background: The nucleosome is the fundamental packing unit of DNAs in eukaryotic cells. Its detailed positioning on the genome is closely related to chromosome functions. Increasi...
Liqun Xi, Yvonne Fondufe-Mittendorf, Lei Xia, Jare...
BMCBI
2006
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Prediction of cis/trans isomerization in proteins using PSI-BLAST profiles and secondary structure information
Background: The majority of peptide bonds in proteins are found to occur in the trans conformation. However, for proline residues, a considerable fraction of Prolyl peptide bonds ...
Jiangning Song, Kevin Burrage, Zheng Yuan, Thomas ...
RECOMB
2004
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
A class of edit kernels for SVMs to predict translation initiation sites in eukaryotic mRNAs
The prediction of translation initiation sites (TISs) in eukaryotic mRNAs has been a challenging problem in computational molecular biology. In this paper, we present a new algori...
Haifeng Li, Tao Jiang
IPMI
2003
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Velocity Estimation in Ultrasound Images: A Block Matching Approach
In this paper, we focus on velocity estimation in ultrasound images sequences. Ultrasound images present many difficulties in image processing because of the typically high level o...
Djamal Boukerroui, J. Alison Noble, Michael Brady