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2008
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A novel representation of RNA secondary structure based on element-contact graphs
Background: Depending on their specific structures, noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) play important roles in many biological processes. Interest in developing new topological indices based...
Wenjie Shu, Xiaochen Bo, Zhiqiang Zheng, Shengqi W...
BMCBI
2008
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Efficient computation of absent words in genomic sequences
Background: Analysis of sequence composition is a routine task in genome research. Organisms are characterized by their base composition, dinucleotide relative abundance, codon us...
Julia Herold, Stefan Kurtz, Robert Giegerich
BMCBI
2008
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MS-DOCK: Accurate multiple conformation generator and rigid docking protocol for multi-step virtual ligand screening
Background: The number of protein targets with a known or predicted tri-dimensional structure and of drug-like chemical compounds is growing rapidly and so is the need for new the...
Nicolas Sauton, David Lagorce, Bruno O. Villoutrei...
BMCBI
2008
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LTRharvest, an efficient and flexible software for de novo detection of LTR retrotransposons
Background: Transposable elements are abundant in eukaryotic genomes and it is believed that they have a significant impact on the evolution of gene and chromosome structure. Whil...
David Ellinghaus, Stefan Kurtz, Ute Willhoeft
BMCBI
2008
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Improved accuracy of multiple ncRNA alignment by incorporating structural information into a MAFFT-based framework
Background: Structural alignment of RNAs is becoming important, since the discovery of functional non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs). Recent studies, mainly based on various approximations ...
Kazutaka Katoh, Hiroyuki Toh