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BMCBI
2008
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A novel series of compositionally biased substitution matrices for comparing Plasmodium proteins
Background: The most common substitution matrices currently used (BLOSUM and PAM) are based on protein sequences with average amino acid distributions, thus they do not represent ...
Kevin Brick, Elisabetta Pizzi
BMCBI
2008
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Bioinformatic analyses of mammalian 5'-UTR sequence properties of mRNAs predicts alternative translation initiation sites
Background: Utilization of alternative initiation sites for protein translation directed by non-AUG codons in mammalian mRNAs is observed with increasing frequency. Alternative in...
Jill L. Wegrzyn, Thomas M. Drudge, Faramarz Valafa...
BMCBI
2007
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DNA-based watermarks using the DNA-Crypt algorithm
Background: The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the application of watermarks based on DNA sequences to identify the unauthorized use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) ...
Dominik Heider, Angelika Barnekow
BMCBI
2007
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Phylo-mLogo: an interactive and hierarchical multiple-logo visualization tool for alignment of many sequences
Background: When aligning several hundreds or thousands of sequences, such as epidemic virus sequences or homologous/orthologous sequences of some big gene families, to reconstruc...
Arthur Chun-Chieh Shih, D. T. Lee, Chin-Lin Peng, ...
BMCBI
2008
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Evaluation of genomic island predictors using a comparative genomics approach
Background: Genomic islands (GIs) are clusters of genes in prokaryotic genomes of probable horizontal origin. GIs are disproportionately associated with microbial adaptations of m...
Morgan G. I. Langille, William W. L. Hsiao, Fiona ...