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BMCBI
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
Tandem duplication, circular permutation, molecular adaptation: how Solanaceae resist pests via inhibitors
Background: The Potato type II (Pot II) family of proteinase inhibitors plays critical roles in the defense system of plants from Solanaceae family against pests. To better unders...
Lesheng Kong, Shoba Ranganathan
CORR
2007
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Identifying statistical dependence in genomic sequences via mutual information estimates
Questions of understanding and quantifying the representation and amount of information in organisms have become a central part of biological research, as they potentially hold th...
H. M. Aktulga, I. Kontoyiannis, L. A. Lyznik, Luka...
RECOMB
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A compression algorithm for DNA sequences and its applications in genome comparison
We present a lossless compression algorithm, GenCompress, for genetic sequences, based on searching for approximate repeats. Our algorithm achieves the best compression ratios for...
Xin Chen, Sam Kwong, Ming Li
BMCBI
2007
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13 years 8 months ago
TPRpred: a tool for prediction of TPR-, PPR- and SEL1-like repeats from protein sequences
Background: Solenoid repeat proteins of the Tetratrico Peptide Repeat (TPR) family are involved as scaffolds in a broad range of protein-protein interactions. Several resources ar...
Manjunatha R. Karpenahalli, Andrei N. Lupas, Johan...
IPPS
2003
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A Fast Algorithm for the Exhaustive Analysis of 12-Nucleotide-Long DNA Sequences. Applications to Human Genomics
We have developed a new algorithm that allows the exhaustive determination of words of up to 12 nucleotides in DNA sequences. It is fast enough as to be used at a genomic scale ru...
Vicente Arnau, Ignacio Marín