Searching bio-chemical structures is becoming an important application domain of information retrieval. This paper introduces a protein structure matching problem and formulates i...
Abstract. Protein fold recognition is an important step towards understanding protein three-dimensional structures and their functions. A conditional graphical model, i.e. segmenta...
Yan Liu, Jaime G. Carbonell, Peter Weigele, Vanath...
Background: The identification of statistically overrepresented sequences in the upstream regions of coregulated genes should theoretically permit the identification of potential ...
Jonathan M. Carlson, Arijit Chakravarty, Radhika S...
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...
Background: Transcriptional regulation is a key mechanism in the functioning of the cell, and is mostly effected through transcription factors binding to specific recognition moti...