Background: Genome sequence alignments form the basis of much research. Genome alignment depends on various mundane but critical choices, such as how to mask repeats and which sco...
Background: Non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) have a multitude of roles in the cell, many of which remain to be discovered. However, it is difficult to detect novel ncRNAs in biochemical s...
Andrew V. Uzilov, Joshua M. Keegan, David H. Mathe...
Abstract. Local similarity is an important tool in comparative analysis of biological sequences, and is therefore well studied. In particular, the Smith-Waterman technique and its ...
Rolf Backofen, Danny Hermelin, Gad M. Landau, Oren...
Background: Mitochondrial tRNAs have been the subject of study for structural biologists interested in their secondary structure characteristics, evolutionary biologists have rese...
Konstantin Yu Popadin, Leila A. Mamirova, Fyodor A...
Locality is an important and well-studied notion in comparative analysis of biological sequences. Similarly, taking into account affine gap penalties when calculating biological ...
Rolf Backofen, Shihyen Chen, Danny Hermelin, Gad M...