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BMCBI
2004
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Inter-residue distances derived from fold contact propensities correlate with evolutionary substitution costs
Background: The wealth of information on protein structure has led to a variety of statistical analyses of the role played by individual amino acid types in the protein fold. In p...
Gareth Williams, Patrick Doherty
NAR
1998
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The PIR-International Protein Sequence Database
The Protein Information Resource (PIR; http://wwwnbrf.georgetown.edu/pir/ ) supports research on molecular evolution, functional genomics, and computational biology by maintaining...
Winona C. Barker, John S. Garavelli, Daniel H. Haf...
MAGS
2007
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Agent-based protein structure prediction
A protein is identified by a finite sequence of amino acids, each of them chosen from a set of 20 elements. The Protein Structure Prediction Problem is the problem of predicting...
Luca Bortolussi, Agostino Dovier, Federico Fogolar...
BMCBI
2008
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Application of nonnegative matrix factorization to improve profile-profile alignment features for fold recognition and remote ho
Background: Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a feature extraction method that has the property of intuitive part-based representation of the original features. This uniqu...
Inkyung Jung, Jaehyung Lee, Soo-Young Lee, Dongsup...
BMCBI
2006
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Improvement in accuracy of multiple sequence alignment using novel group-to-group sequence alignment algorithm with piecewise li
Background: Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is a useful tool in bioinformatics. Although many MSA algorithms have been developed, there is still room for improvement in accuracy...
Shinsuke Yamada, Osamu Gotoh, Hayato Yamana