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JCB
2002
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Using Substitution Matrices to Estimate Probability Distributions for Biological Sequences
Accurately estimating probabilities from observations is important for probabilistic-based approaches to problems in computational biology. In this paper we present a biologically...
Eleazar Eskin, William Stafford Noble, Yoram Singe...
BMCBI
2007
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XSTREAM: A practical algorithm for identification and architecture modeling of tandem repeats in protein sequences
Background: Biological sequence repeats arranged in tandem patterns are widespread in DNA and proteins. While many software tools have been designed to detect DNA tandem repeats (...
Aaron M. Newman, James B. Cooper
BMCBI
2010
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Evolutionary rates at codon sites may be used to align sequences and infer protein domain function
Background: Sequence alignments form part of many investigations in molecular biology, including the determination of phylogenetic relationships, the prediction of protein structu...
Pierre M. Durand, Scott Hazelhurst, Theresa L. Coe...
BMCBI
2010
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Empirical Bayes Analysis of Sequencing-based Transcriptional Profiling without Replicates
Background: Recent technological advancements have made high throughput sequencing an increasingly popular approach for transcriptome analysis. Advantages of sequencing-based tran...
Zhijin Wu, Bethany D. Jenkins, Tatiana A. Rynearso...
RECOMB
2008
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
A Fast, Alignment-Free, Conservation-Based Method for Transcription Factor Binding Site Discovery
As an increasing number of eukaryotic genomes are being sequenced, comparative studies aimed at detecting regulatory elements in intergenic sequences are becoming more prevalent. M...
Raluca Gordân, Leelavati Narlikar, Alexander...