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ALMOB
2006
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Multiple sequence alignment with user-defined anchor points
Background: Automated software tools for multiple alignment often fail to produce biologically meaningful results. In such situations, expert knowledge can help to improve the qua...
Burkhard Morgenstern, Sonja J. Prohaska, Dirk P&ou...
BMCBI
2008
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A novel series of compositionally biased substitution matrices for comparing Plasmodium proteins
Background: The most common substitution matrices currently used (BLOSUM and PAM) are based on protein sequences with average amino acid distributions, thus they do not represent ...
Kevin Brick, Elisabetta Pizzi
BMCBI
2008
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Evolution of biological sequences implies an extreme value distribution of type I for both global and local pairwise alignment s
Background: Confidence in pairwise alignments of biological sequences, obtained by various methods such as Blast or Smith-Waterman, is critical for automatic analyses of genomic d...
Olivier Bastien, Eric Maréchal
ISMB
2000
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Prediction of the Number of Residue Contacts in Proteins
Knowing the number of residue contacts in a protein is crucial for deriving constraints useful in modeling protein folding, protein structure, and/or scoring remote homology searc...
Piero Fariselli, Rita Casadio
BMCBI
2005
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Atlas - a data warehouse for integrative bioinformatics
Background: We present a biological data warehouse called Atlas that locally stores and integrates biological sequences, molecular interactions, homology information, functional a...
Sohrab P. Shah, Yong Huang, Tao Xu, Macaire M. S. ...