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BMCBI
2008
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PSAT: A web tool to compare genomic neighborhoods of multiple prokaryotic genomes
Background: The conservation of gene order among prokaryotic genomes can provide valuable insight into gene function, protein interactions, or events by which genomes have evolved...
Christine Fong, Laurence Rohmer, Matthew Radey, Mi...
ENGL
2008
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Threshold for Positional Weight Matrix
In biological sequence research, the positional weight matrix (PWM) is often used to search for putative transcription factor binding sites. A set of experimentally verified oligon...
Yunlian Pan, Sieu Phan
BMCBI
2006
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Integrating protein structures and precomputed genealogies in the Magnum database: Examples with cellular retinoid binding prote
Background: When accurate models for the divergent evolution of protein sequences are integrated with complementary biological information, such as folded protein structures, anal...
Michael E. Bradley, Steven A. Benner
BMCBI
2006
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Cis-motifs upstream of the transcription and translation initiation sites are effectively revealed by their positional disequili
Background: The discovery of cis-regulatory motifs still remains a challenging task even though the number of sequenced genomes is constantly growing. Computational analyses using...
Kenneth W. Berendzen, Kurt Stüber, Klaus Hart...
BMCBI
2006
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GibbsST: a Gibbs sampling method for motif discovery with enhanced resistance to local optima
Background: Computational discovery of transcription factor binding sites (TFBS) is a challenging but important problem of bioinformatics. In this study, improvement of a Gibbs sa...
Kazuhito Shida