Background: Homology is a crucial concept in comparative genomics. The algorithm probably most widely used for homology detection in comparative genomics, is BLAST. Usually a stri...
Like Fokkens, Sandra M. C. Botelho, Jos Boekhorst,...
Background: Recent studies have shown that copy number variations (CNVs) are frequent in higher eukaryotes and associated with a substantial portion of inherited and acquired risk...
Xiaowu Gai, Juan C. Perin, Kevin Murphy, Ryan O'Ha...
Background: Discriminating membrane proteins based on their functions is an important task in genome annotation. In this work, we have analyzed the characteristic features of amin...
Background: Motif finding algorithms have developed in their ability to use computationally efficient methods to detect patterns in biological sequences. However the posterior cla...
Ana C. Casimiro, Susana Vinga, Ana T. Freitas, Arl...
Background: In microarray experiments the numbers of replicates are often limited due to factors such as cost, availability of sample or poor hybridization. There are currently fe...