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JUCS
2006
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Constraint Based Methods for Biological Sequence Analysis
: The need for processing biological information is rapidly growing, owing to the masses of new information in digital form being produced at this time. Old methodologies for proce...
Maryam Bavarian, Verónica Dahl
BMCBI
2005
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Accelerated probabilistic inference of RNA structure evolution
Background: Pairwise stochastic context-free grammars (Pair SCFGs) are powerful tools for evolutionary analysis of RNA, including simultaneous RNA sequence alignment and secondary...
Ian Holmes
BMCBI
2008
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Improved accuracy of multiple ncRNA alignment by incorporating structural information into a MAFFT-based framework
Background: Structural alignment of RNAs is becoming important, since the discovery of functional non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs). Recent studies, mainly based on various approximations ...
Kazutaka Katoh, Hiroyuki Toh
BMCBI
2007
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Considerations in the identification of functional RNA structural elements in genomic alignments
Background: Accurate identification of novel, functional noncoding (nc) RNA features in genome sequence has proven more difficult than for exons. Current algorithms identify and s...
Tomas Babak, Benjamin J. Blencowe, Timothy R. Hugh...
BMCBI
2007
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MiRFinder: an improved approach and software implementation for genome-wide fast microRNA precursor scans
Background: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are recognized as one of the most important families of noncoding RNAs that serve as important sequence-specific post-transcriptional regulators of ...
Ting-Hua Huang, Bin Fan, Max F. Rothschild, Zhi-Li...