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BIOINFORMATICS
2006
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Multiple Alignment of protein structures and sequences for VMD
Multiple Alignment is a new interface for performing and analyzing multiple protein structure alignments. It enables viewing levels of sequence and structure similarity on the ali...
John Eargle, Dan Wright, Zaida Luthey-Schulten
ALMOB
2006
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Multiple sequence alignment with user-defined anchor points
Background: Automated software tools for multiple alignment often fail to produce biologically meaningful results. In such situations, expert knowledge can help to improve the qua...
Burkhard Morgenstern, Sonja J. Prohaska, Dirk P&ou...
BMCBI
2008
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Subfamily specific conservation profiles for proteins based on n-gram patterns
Background: A new algorithm has been developed for generating conservation profiles that reflect the evolutionary history of the subfamily associated with a query sequence. It is ...
John K. Vries, Xiong Liu
BMCBI
2010
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Clustering of protein families into functional subtypes using Relative Complexity Measure with reduced amino acid alphabets
Background: Phylogenetic analysis can be used to divide a protein family into subfamilies in the absence of experimental information. Most phylogenetic analysis methods utilize mu...
Aydin Albayrak, Hasan H. Otu, Ugur O. Sezerman
BMCBI
2008
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Improved accuracy of multiple ncRNA alignment by incorporating structural information into a MAFFT-based framework
Background: Structural alignment of RNAs is becoming important, since the discovery of functional non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs). Recent studies, mainly based on various approximations ...
Kazutaka Katoh, Hiroyuki Toh
AAAI
2004
14 years 29 days ago
PROBCONS: Probabilistic Consistency-Based Multiple Alignment of Amino Acid Sequences
Obtaining an accurate multiple alignment of protein sequences is a difficult computational problem for which many heuristic techniques sacrifice optimality to achieve reasonable r...
Chuong B. Do, Michael Brudno, Serafim Batzoglou
ISAAC
2003
Springer
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14 years 4 months ago
Settling the Intractability of Multiple Alignment
In this paper some of the most fundamental problems in computational biology are proved intractable. The following problems are shown NP-hard for all binary or larger alphabets und...
Isaac Elias
CSB
2003
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Degenerate Primer Design via Clustering
This paper describes a new strategy for designing degenerate primers for a given multiple alignment of amino acid sequences. Degenerate primers are useful for amplifying homologou...
Xintao Wei, David N. Kuhn, Giri Narasimhan
CSB
2005
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
TreeRefiner: A Tool for Refining a Multiple Alignment on a Phylogenetic Tree
We present TreeRefiner, a tool for refining multiple alignments of biological sequences. Given a multiple alignment, a phylogenetic tree, and scoring parameters as input, TreeRefi...
Aswath Manohar, Serafim Batzoglou