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IJBRA
2006
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Probabilistic models for biological sequences: selection and Maximum Likelihood estimation
: Probabilistic models for biological sequences (DNA and proteins) are frequently used in bioinformatics. We describe statistical tests designed to detect the order of dependency a...
Svetlana Ekisheva, Mark Borodovsky
IJBRA
2006
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Memory efficient alignment between RNA sequences and stochastic grammar models of pseudoknots
: Stochastic Context-Free Grammars (SCFG) has been shown to be effective in modelling RNA secondary structure for searches. Our previous work (Cai et al., 2003) in Stochastic Paral...
Yinglei Song, Chunmei Liu, Russell L. Malmberg, Co...
IJBRA
2006
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Jumpstarting phylogenetic analysis
: Phylogenetic analysis is a central tool in studies of comparative genomics. When a new region of DNA is isolated and sequenced, researchers are often forced to throw away months ...
Jesse Mecham, Mark J. Clement, Quinn Snell, Todd F...
IJBRA
2006
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Predicting altered pathways using extendable scaffolds
: Many diseases, especially solid tumors, involve the disruption or deregulation of cellular processes. Most current work using gene expression and other high-throughput data, simp...
B. M. Broom, T. J. McDonnell, D. Subramanian
IJBRA
2006
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Finding functional promoter motifs by computational methods: a word of caution
: The standard practice in the analysis of promoters is to select promoter regions of convenient length. This may lead to false results when searching for Transcription Factor Bind...
Rajesh Chowdhary, Limsoon Wong, Vladimir B. Bajic
IJBRA
2006
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A novel approach to medical image compression
: As medical/biological imaging facilities move towards complete film-less imaging, compression plays a key role. Although lossy compression techniques yield high compression rates...
Matthew J. Zukoski, Terrance Boult, Tunc Iyriboz
IJBRA
2006
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Statistical evaluation of NMR backbone resonance assignment
: This paper proposes a novel statistical evaluation model for automated protein NMR sequential resonance assignment. It can be bound to any assignment program and provides confide...
Guohui Lin, Xiang Wan, Theodore Tegos, Yingshu Li