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BMCBI
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
XSTREAM: A practical algorithm for identification and architecture modeling of tandem repeats in protein sequences
Background: Biological sequence repeats arranged in tandem patterns are widespread in DNA and proteins. While many software tools have been designed to detect DNA tandem repeats (...
Aaron M. Newman, James B. Cooper
BMCBI
2011
13 years 2 months ago
N-gram analysis of 970 microbial organisms reveals presence of biological language models
Background: It has been suggested previously that genome and proteome sequences show characteristics typical of natural-language texts such as “signature-style” word usage ind...
Hatice U. Osmanbeyoglu, Madhavi Ganapathiraju
ISMB
1998
13 years 9 months ago
A Hidden Markov Model for Predicting Transmembrane Helices in Protein Sequences
A novel method to model and predict the location and orientation of alpha helices in membrane- spanning proteins is presented. It is based on a hidden Markov model (HMM) with an a...
Erik L. L. Sonnhammer, Gunnar von Heijne, Anders K...
WABI
2010
Springer
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13 years 6 months ago
Quantifying the Strength of Natural Selection of a Motif Sequence
Quantification of selective pressures on regulatory sequences is a central question in studying the evolution of gene regulatory networks. Previous methods focus primarily on sing...
Chen-Hsiang Yeang
IDEAS
1997
IEEE
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13 years 12 months ago
Sequence Comparison Using a Relational Database Approach
A variety of heterogenous data sources is available in the field of molecular biology. Our focus lies on the biological sequence data, i. e. data maintained in collections like EM...
André Bergholz, Stephan Heymann, Jörg ...