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BMCBI
2006
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13 years 8 months ago
Using the nucleotide substitution rate matrix to detect horizontal gene transfer
Background: Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) has allowed bacteria to evolve many new capabilities. Because transferred genes perform many medically important functions, such as conf...
Micah Hamady, M. D. Betterton, Rob Knight
ISBRA
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Untangling Tanglegrams: Comparing Trees by Their Drawings
A tanglegram is a pair of trees on the same set of leaves with matching leaves in the two trees joined by an edge. Tanglegrams are widely used in biology – to compare evolutiona...
Balaji Venkatachalam, Jim Apple, Katherine St. Joh...
BMCBI
2005
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13 years 8 months ago
Detailed protein sequence alignment based on Spectral Similarity Score (SSS)
Background: The chemical property and biological function of a protein is a direct consequence of its primary structure. Several algorithms have been developed which determine ali...
Kshitiz Gupta, Dina Thomas, S. V. Vidya, K. V. Ven...
SPIRE
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Evaluating Relevance Feedback and Display Strategies for Searching on Small Displays
Abstract Searching information resources using mobile devices is affected by displays on which only a small fraction of the set of ranked documents can be displayed. In this study ...
Vishwa Vinay, Ingemar J. Cox, Natasa Milic-Fraylin...
BMCBI
2010
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13 years 8 months ago
VITCOMIC: visualization tool for taxonomic compositions of microbial communities based on 16S rRNA gene sequences
Background: Understanding the community structure of microbes is typically accomplished by sequencing 16S ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA) genes. These community data can be represented b...
Hiroshi Mori, Fumito Maruyama, Ken Kurokawa