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BMCBI
2005
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Oligomeric protein structure networks: insights into protein-protein interactions
Background: Protein-protein association is essential for a variety of cellular processes and hence a large number of investigations are being carried out to understand the princip...
K. V. Brinda, Saraswathi Vishveshwara
NAR
2008
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AAindex: amino acid index database, progress report 2008
AAindex is a database of numerical indices representing various physicochemical and biochemical properties of amino acids and pairs of amino acids. We have added a collection of p...
Shuichi Kawashima, Piotr Pokarowski, Maria Pokarow...
JCC
2006
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A search algorithm for fixed-composition protein design
: We present a computational protein design algorithm for finding low-energy sequences of fixed amino acid composition. The search algorithms used in protein design typically do no...
Geoffrey K. Hom, Stephen L. Mayo
BMCBI
2007
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Analysis and prediction of antibacterial peptides
Background: Antibacterial peptides are important components of the innate immune system, used by the host to protect itself from different types of pathogenic bacteria. Over the l...
Sneh Lata, B. K. Sharma, G. P. S. Raghava
BMCBI
2007
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Predicting the phenotypic effects of non-synonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms based on support vector machines
Background: Human genetic variations primarily result from single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that occur approximately every 1000 bases in the overall human population. The no...
Jian Tian, Ningfeng Wu, Xuexia Guo, Jun Guo, Juhua...
BMCBI
2007
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Recognizing protein-protein interfaces with empirical potentials and reduced amino acid alphabets
Background: In structural genomics, an important goal is the detection and classification of protein–protein interactions, given the structures of the interacting partners. We h...
Guillaume Launay, Raul Mendez, Shoshana J. Wodak, ...
CANDC
2006
ACM
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Prediction of protein subcellular location using hydrophobic patterns of amino acid sequence
The function of eukaryotic protein is closely correlated with its subcellular location. The number of newly found protein sequences entering into data banks is rapidly increasing ...
Tongliang Zhang, Yongsheng Ding, Kuo-Chen Chou
BMCBI
2006
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Fast index based algorithms and software for matching position specific scoring matrices
Background: In biological sequence analysis, position specific scoring matrices (PSSMs) are widely used to represent sequence motifs in nucleotide as well as amino acid sequences....
Michael Beckstette, Robert Homann, Robert Giegeric...
BMCBI
2006
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Incorporating background frequency improves entropy-based residue conservation measures
Background: Several entropy-based methods have been developed for scoring sequence conservation in protein multiple sequence alignments. High scoring amino acid positions may corr...
Kai Wang, Ram Samudrala
BMCBI
2006
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Predicting DNA-binding sites of proteins from amino acid sequence
Background: Understanding the molecular details of protein-DNA interactions is critical for deciphering the mechanisms of gene regulation. We present a machine learning approach f...
Changhui Yan, Michael Terribilini, Feihong Wu, Rob...