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TCBB
2011
13 years 2 months ago
Information-Theoretic Model of Evolution over Protein Communication Channel
—In this paper, we propose a communication model of evolution and investigate its information-theoretic bounds. The process of evolution is modeled as the retransmission of infor...
Liuling Gong, Nidhal Bouaynaya, Dan Schonfeld
BMCBI
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
The meaning of alignment: lessons from structural diversity
Background: Protein structural alignment provides a fundamental basis for deriving principles of functional and evolutionary relationships. It is routinely used for structural cla...
Walter Pirovano, K. Anton Feenstra, Jaap Heringa
NAR
2002
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13 years 7 months ago
SCOP database in 2002: refinements accommodate structural genomics
The SCOP (Structural Classification of Proteins) database is a comprehensive ordering of all proteins of known structure, according to their evolutionary and structural relationsh...
Loredana Lo Conte, Steven E. Brenner, Tim J. P. Hu...
BIOCOMP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
GIPSCo: A Method for Comparison of Protein Structures Based on Geometric Invariants
Protein structure comparison is important for elucidation of evolutionary relationships, function and functionally important amino acid residues. We propose Geometric Invariant bas...
Sandeep Deshmukh, Aniket Dalal, Pramod Wangikar
NAR
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
SIMAP - structuring the network of protein similarities
Protein sequences are the most important source of evolutionary and functional information for new proteins. In order to facilitate the computationally intensive tasks of sequence...
Thomas Rattei, Patrick Tischler, Roland Arnold, Fr...