Background: The insect exoskeleton or cuticle is a bi-partite composite of proteins and chitin that provides protective, skeletal and structural functions. Little information is a...
Christiana K. Magkrioti, Ioannis C. Spyropoulos, V...
Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is a polymer composed of four bases denoted A, C, G, and U. It is a generally single-stranded molecule where the bases form hydrogen bonds within the same m...
Background: Several problems exist with current methods used to align DNA sequences for comparative sequence analysis. Most dynamic programming algorithms assume that conserved se...
Background: Probabilistic models for sequence comparison (such as hidden Markov models and pair hidden Markov models for proteins and mRNAs, or their context-free grammar counterp...
Background: Detection of common evolutionary origin (homology) is a primary means of inferring protein structure and function. At present, comparison of protein families represent...