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RECOMB
2008
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Integrating Sequence and Topology for Efficient and Accurate Detection of Horizontal Gene Transfer
Abstract. One phylogeny-based approach to horizontal gene transfer (HGT) detection entails comparing the topology of a gene tree to that of the species tree, and using their differ...
Cuong Than, Guohua Jin, Luay Nakhleh
NAR
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
TreeDomViewer: a tool for the visualization of phylogeny and protein domain structure
Phylogenetic analysis and examination of protein domains allow accurate genome annotation and are invaluable to study proteins and protein complex evolution. However, two sequence...
Blaise T. F. Alako, Daphne Rainey, Harm Nijveen, J...
BMCBI
2005
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13 years 7 months ago
SIMPROT: Using an empirically determined indel distribution in simulations of protein evolution
Background: General protein evolution models help determine the baseline expectations for the evolution of sequences, and they have been extensively useful in sequence analysis an...
Andy Pang, Andrew D. Smith, Paulo A. S. Nuin, Elis...
BMCBI
2006
102views more  BMCBI 2006»
13 years 7 months ago
UVPAR: fast detection of functional shifts in duplicate genes
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...
WABI
2010
Springer
167views Bioinformatics» more  WABI 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Quantifying the Strength of Natural Selection of a Motif Sequence
Quantification of selective pressures on regulatory sequences is a central question in studying the evolution of gene regulatory networks. Previous methods focus primarily on sing...
Chen-Hsiang Yeang