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BMCBI
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Incorporating background frequency improves entropy-based residue conservation measures
Background: Several entropy-based methods have been developed for scoring sequence conservation in protein multiple sequence alignments. High scoring amino acid positions may corr...
Kai Wang, Ram Samudrala
BIBE
2007
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Statistial Analysis of nucleosome occupancy and histone modification data
Abstract-- In eukaryotic cells, genomic DNAs wrap around beadlike molecules, called nucleosomes, so as to pack more compactly in the nucleus of the cell. The nucleosome is made up ...
Guo-Cheng Yuan, Jun S. Liu
BMCBI
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
MetWAMer: eukaryotic translation initiation site prediction
Background: Translation initiation site (TIS) identification is an important aspect of the gene annotation process, requisite for the accurate delineation of protein sequences fro...
Michael E. Sparks, Volker Brendel
BMCBI
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
Mining protein loops using a structural alphabet and statistical exceptionality
Background: Protein loops encompass 50% of protein residues in available three-dimensional structures. These regions are often involved in protein functions, e.g. binding site, ca...
Leslie Regad, Juliette Martin, Grégory Nuel...
BMCBI
2005
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GATA: a graphic alignment tool for comparative sequence analysis
Background: Several problems exist with current methods used to align DNA sequences for comparative sequence analysis. Most dynamic programming algorithms assume that conserved se...
David A. Nix, Michael B. Eisen