Sciweavers

679 search results - page 51 / 136
» bmcbi 2008
Sort
View
BMCBI
2008
126views more  BMCBI 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
c-REDUCE: Incorporating sequence conservation to detect motifs that correlate with expression
Background: Computational methods for characterizing novel transcription factor binding sites search for sequence patterns or "motifs" that appear repeatedly in genomic ...
Katerina Kechris, Hao Li
BMCBI
2008
149views more  BMCBI 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Evolution of biological sequences implies an extreme value distribution of type I for both global and local pairwise alignment s
Background: Confidence in pairwise alignments of biological sequences, obtained by various methods such as Blast or Smith-Waterman, is critical for automatic analyses of genomic d...
Olivier Bastien, Eric Maréchal
BMCBI
2008
211views more  BMCBI 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
CUDA compatible GPU cards as efficient hardware accelerators for Smith-Waterman sequence alignment
Background: Searching for similarities in protein and DNA databases has become a routine procedure in Molecular Biology. The Smith-Waterman algorithm has been available for more t...
Svetlin Manavski, Giorgio Valle
BMCBI
2008
142views more  BMCBI 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Genetic weighted k-means algorithm for clustering large-scale gene expression data
Background: The traditional (unweighted) k-means is one of the most popular clustering methods for analyzing gene expression data. However, it suffers three major shortcomings. It...
Fang-Xiang Wu
BMCBI
2008
242views more  BMCBI 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
annot8r: GO, EC and KEGG annotation of EST datasets
Background: The expressed sequence tag (EST) methodology is an attractive option for the generation of sequence data for species for which no completely sequenced genome is availa...
Ralf Schmid, Mark L. Blaxter