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BMCBI
2010
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Reaction graph kernels predict EC numbers of unknown enzymatic reactions in plant secondary metabolism
Background: Understanding of secondary metabolic pathway in plant is essential for finding druggable candidate enzymes. However, there are many enzymes whose functions are not yet...
Hiroto Saigo, Masahiro Hattori, Hisashi Kashima, K...
BMCBI
2010
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A hybrid approach to protein folding problem integrating constraint programming with local search
Background: The protein folding problem remains one of the most challenging open problems in computational biology. Simplified models in terms of lattice structure and energy func...
Abu Zafer M. Dayem Ullah, Kathleen Steinhöfel
BMCBI
2010
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Identification of functional hubs and modules by converting interactome networks into hierarchical ordering of proteins
Background: Protein-protein interactions play a key role in biological processes of proteins within a cell. Recent high-throughput techniques have generated protein-protein intera...
Young-Rae Cho, Aidong Zhang
BMCBI
2010
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Discrete wavelet transform de-noising in eukaryotic gene splicing
Background: This paper compares the most common digital signal processing methods of exon prediction in eukaryotes, and also proposes a technique for noise suppression in exon pre...
Tina P. George, Tessamma Thomas
BMCBI
2010
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Efficient protein alignment algorithm for protein search
Background: Proteins show a great variety of 3D conformations, which can be used to infer their evolutionary relationship and to classify them into more general groups; therefore ...
Zaixin Lu, Zhiyu Zhao, Bin Fu
BMCBI
2010
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NeMo: Network Module identification in Cytoscape
Background: As the size of the known human interactome grows, biologists increasingly rely on computational tools to identify patterns that represent protein complexes and pathway...
Corban G. Rivera, Rachit Vakil, Joel S. Bader
BMCBI
2010
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HORI: a web server to compute Higher Order Residue Interactions in protein structures
Background: Folding of a protein into its three dimensional structure is influenced by both local and global interactions within a protein. Higher order residue interactions, like...
Pandurangan Sundaramurthy, Khader Shameer, Raashi ...
BMCBI
2010
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MrsRF: an efficient MapReduce algorithm for analyzing large collections of evolutionary trees
Background: MapReduce is a parallel framework that has been used effectively to design largescale parallel applications for large computing clusters. In this paper, we evaluate th...
Suzanne Matthews, Tiffani L. Williams
BMCBI
2010
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A fast indexing approach for protein structure comparison
Background: Protein structure comparison is a fundamental task in structural biology. While the number of known protein structures has grown rapidly over the last decade, searchin...
Lei Zhang, James Bailey, Arun Siddharth Konagurthu...
BMCBI
2010
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Translog, a web browser for studying the expression divergence of homologous genes
Background: Increasing amount of data from comparative genomics, and newly developed technologies producing accurate gene expression data facilitate the study of the expression di...
Xianjun Dong, Altuna Akalin, Yogita Sharma, Boris ...