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BMCBI
2004
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A functional hierarchical organization of the protein sequence space
Background: It is a major challenge of computational biology to provide a comprehensive functional classification of all known proteins. Most existing methods seek recurrent patte...
Noam Kaplan, Moriah Friedlich, Menachem Fromer, Mi...
BMCBI
2005
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DynGO: a tool for visualizing and mining of Gene Ontology and its associations
Background: A large volume of data and information about genes and gene products has been stored in various molecular biology databases. A major challenge for knowledge discovery ...
Hongfang Liu, Zhang-Zhi Hu, Cathy H. Wu
RIVF
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Speeding up subset seed algorithm for intensive protein sequence comparison
Abstract--Sequence similarity search is a common and repeated task in molecular biology. The rapid growth of genomic databases leads to the need of speeding up the treatment of thi...
Van Hoa Nguyen, Dominique Lavenier
BMCBI
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
Defining functional distances over Gene Ontology
Background: A fundamental problem when trying to define the functional relationships between proteins is the difficulty in quantifying functional similarities, even when well-stru...
Angela del Pozo, Florencio Pazos, Alfonso Valencia
BMCBI
2010
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A fast indexing approach for protein structure comparison
Background: Protein structure comparison is a fundamental task in structural biology. While the number of known protein structures has grown rapidly over the last decade, searchin...
Lei Zhang, James Bailey, Arun Siddharth Konagurthu...