Background: The optimal score for ungapped local alignments of infinitely long random sequences is known to follow a Gumbel extreme value distribution. Less is known about the imp...
Stefan Wolfsheimer, Bernd Burghardt, Alexander K. ...
Background: Matching functional sites is a key problem for the understanding of protein function and evolution. The commonly used graph theoretic approach, and other related appro...
Kanti V. Mardia, Vysaul B. Nyirongo, Peter J. Gree...
Background: Answers to several fundamental questions in statistical genetics would ideally require knowledge of the ancestral pedigree and of the gene flow therein. A few examples...
Dario Gasbarra, Matti Pirinen, Mikko J. Sillanp&au...
Background: In real-time quantitative PCR studies using absolute plasmid DNA standards, a calibration curve is developed to estimate an unknown DNA concentration. However, potenti...
Mano Sivaganesan, Shawn Seifring, Manju Varma, Ric...
Background: Data mining in large DNA sequences is a major challenge in microbial genomics and bioinformatics. Oligonucleotide usage (OU) patterns provide a wealth of information f...
Hamilton Ganesan, Anna S. Rakitianskaia, Colin F. ...