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BMCBI
2008
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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
BMCBI
2010
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GIGA: a simple, efficient algorithm for gene tree inference in the genomic age
Background: Phylogenetic relationships between genes are not only of theoretical interest: they enable us to learn about human genes through the experimental work on their relativ...
Paul D. Thomas
BMCBI
2006
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UVPAR: fast detection of functional shifts in duplicate genes
Background: The imprint of natural selection on gene sequences is often difficult to detect. A plethora of methods have been devised to detect genetic changes due to selective pro...
Vicente Arnau, Miguel Gallach, J. Ignasi Lucas, Ig...
BMCBI
2006
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Taxonomic colouring of phylogenetic trees of protein sequences
Background: Phylogenetic analyses of protein families are used to define the evolutionary relationships between homologous proteins. The interpretation of protein-sequence phyloge...
Gareth Palidwor, Emmanuel G. Reynaud, Miguel A. An...
WABI
2009
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Improving Inference of Transcriptional Regulatory Networks Based on Network Evolutionary Models
Abstract. Computational inference of transcriptional regulatory networks remains a challenging problem, in part due to the lack of strong network models. In this paper we present e...
Xiuwei Zhang, Bernard M. E. Moret