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BIBE
2005
IEEE
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14 years 16 days ago
Suboptimal Alignments Improve the Detection of Weak Homologs in Sequence Database Searches
PSI-BLAST remains one of the popular tools for searching remote homologs in sequence databases. We recently demonstrated that hybrid alignment can function as the alignment core f...
Yuheng Li, Mario Lauria, Ralf Bundschuh
NAR
2008
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13 years 6 months ago
PROMALS3D web server for accurate multiple protein sequence and structure alignments
Multiple sequence alignments are essential in computational sequence and structural analysis, with applications in homology detection, structure modeling, function prediction and ...
Jimin Pei, Ming Tang, Nick V. Grishin
HPDC
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Modeling sequence and function similarity between proteins for protein functional annotation
A common task in biological research is to predict function for proteins by comparing sequences between proteins of known and unknown function. This is often done using pair-wise ...
Roger Higdon, Brenton Louie, Eugene Kolker
BMCBI
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
A new protein linear motif benchmark for multiple sequence alignment software
Background: Linear motifs (LMs) are abundant short regulatory sites used for modulating the functions of many eukaryotic proteins. They play important roles in post-translational ...
Emmanuel Perrodou, Claudia Chica, Olivier Poch, To...
BMCBI
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
TaxMan: a taxonomic database manager
Background: Phylogenetic analysis of large, multiple-gene datasets, assembled from public sequence databases, is rapidly becoming a popular way to approach difficult phylogenetic ...
Martin Jones, Mark Blaxter