Background: Determining beforehand specific positions to align (anchor points) has proved valuable for the accuracy of automated multiple sequence alignment (MSA) software. This f...
Background: Hypermethylation of promoter CpG islands is strongly correlated to transcriptional gene silencing and epigenetic maintenance of the silenced state. As well as its role...
Wei Dai, Jens M. Teodoridis, Janet Graham, Constan...
Background: Reliable prediction of antibody, or B-cell, epitopes remains challenging yet highly desirable for the design of vaccines and immunodiagnostics. A correlation between a...
Julia V. Ponomarenko, Huynh-Hoa Bui, Wei Li, Nicho...
Background: Genome-wide association studies have been successful in finding common variants influencing common traits. However, these associations only account for a fraction of t...
Robert Lawrence, Aaron G. Day-Williams, Katherine ...
Background: Many newly detected point mutations are located in protein-coding regions of the human genome. Knowledge of their effects on the protein's 3D structure provides i...
Hanka Venselaar, Tim A. H. te Beek, Remko K. P. Ku...