Background: With the ever-increasing number of gene sequences in the public databases, generating and analyzing multiple sequence alignments becomes increasingly time consuming. N...
Xiao I. Liu, Neeraj Korde, Ursula Jakob, Lars I. L...
Background: The presence of gaps in an alignment of nucleotide or protein sequences is often an inconvenience for bioinformatical studies. In phylogenetic and other analyses, for ...
Rodrigo Gouveia-Oliveira, Peter Wad Sackett, Ander...
Background: Phylogenetic analysis can be used to divide a protein family into subfamilies in the absence of experimental information. Most phylogenetic analysis methods utilize mu...
It is well known that the base composition along eukaryotic genomes is long-range correlated. Here, we investigate the effect of such long-range correlations on alignment score sta...
Philipp W. Messer, Ralf Bundschuh, Martin Vingron,...
Background: Accurate and sensitive performance evaluation is crucial for both effective development of better structure prediction methods based on sequence similarity, and for th...
Yuan Qi, Ruslan Sadreyev, Yong Wang, Bong-Hyun Kim...