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BMCBI
2006
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A reinforced merging methodology for mapping unique peptide motifs in members of protein families
Background: Members of a protein family often have highly conserved sequences; most of these sequences carry identical biological functions and possess similar three-dimensional (...
Hao-Teng Chang, Tun-Wen Pai, Tan-Chi Fan, Bo-Han S...
BMCBI
2005
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A multistep bioinformatic approach detects putative regulatory elements in gene promoters
Background: Searching for approximate patterns in large promoter sequences frequently produces an exceedingly high numbers of results. Our aim was to exploit biological knowledge ...
Stefania Bortoluzzi, Alessandro Coppe, Andrea Biso...
BMCBI
2006
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Fast index based algorithms and software for matching position specific scoring matrices
Background: In biological sequence analysis, position specific scoring matrices (PSSMs) are widely used to represent sequence motifs in nucleotide as well as amino acid sequences....
Michael Beckstette, Robert Homann, Robert Giegeric...
BMCBI
2006
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Optimized mixed Markov models for motif identification
Background: Identifying functional elements, such as transcriptional factor binding sites, is a fundamental step in reconstructing gene regulatory networks and remains a challengi...
Weichun Huang, David M. Umbach, Uwe Ohler, Leping ...
BMCBI
2005
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Kalign - an accurate and fast multiple sequence alignment algorithm
Background: The alignment of multiple protein sequences is a fundamental step in the analysis of biological data. It has traditionally been applied to analyzing protein families f...
Timo Lassmann, Erik L. L. Sonnhammer