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BMCBI
2010
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Parameters for accurate genome alignment
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...
Martin C. Frith, Michiaki Hamada, Paul Horton
BMCBI
2010
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Evolutionary rates at codon sites may be used to align sequences and infer protein domain function
Background: Sequence alignments form part of many investigations in molecular biology, including the determination of phylogenetic relationships, the prediction of protein structu...
Pierre M. Durand, Scott Hazelhurst, Theresa L. Coe...
BMCBI
2010
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Amino acid "little Big Bang": Representing amino acid substitution matrices as dot products of Euclidian vectors
Background: Sequence comparisons make use of a one-letter representation for amino acids, the necessary quantitative information being supplied by the substitution matrices. This ...
Karel Zimmermann, Jean-François Gibrat
BMCBI
2010
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A weighted q-gram method for glycan structure classification
Background: Glycobiology pertains to the study of carbohydrate sugar chains, or glycans, in a particular cell or organism. Many computational approaches have been proposed for ana...
Limin Li, Wai-Ki Ching, Takako Yamaguchi, Kiyoko F...
BMCBI
2007
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PathFinder: mining signal transduction pathway segments from protein-protein interaction networks
Background: A Signal transduction pathway is the chain of processes by which a cell converts an extracellular signal into a response. In most unicellular organisms, the number of ...
Gürkan Bebek, Jiong Yang