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BMCBI
2008
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Impact of residue accessible surface area on the prediction of protein secondary structures
Background: The problem of accurate prediction of protein secondary structure continues to be one of the challenging problems in Bioinformatics. It has been previously suggested t...
Amir Momen-Roknabadi, Mehdi Sadeghi, Hamid Pezeshk...
BMCBI
2008
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A simplified approach to disulfide connectivity prediction from protein sequences
Background: Prediction of disulfide bridges from protein sequences is useful for characterizing structural and functional properties of proteins. Several methods based on differen...
Marc Vincent, Andrea Passerini, Matthieu Labb&eacu...
BMCBI
2008
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Prediction of the outcome of preoperative chemotherapy in breast cancer using DNA probes that provide information on both comple
Background: DNA microarray technology has emerged as a major tool for exploring cancer biology and solving clinical issues. Predicting a patient's response to chemotherapy is...
René Natowicz, Roberto Incitti, Euler Guima...
BMCBI
2008
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Structural assembly of two-domain proteins by rigid-body docking
Background: Modelling proteins with multiple domains is one of the central challenges in Structural Biology. Although homology modelling has successfully been applied for predicti...
Tammy M. K. Cheng, Tom L. Blundell, Juan Fern&aacu...
BMCBI
2007
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Efficient pairwise RNA structure prediction using probabilistic alignment constraints in Dynalign
Background: Joint alignment and secondary structure prediction of two RNA sequences can significantly improve the accuracy of the structural predictions. Methods addressing this p...
Arif Ozgun Harmanci, Gaurav Sharma, David H. Mathe...
BMCBI
2008
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Improving the prediction of mRNA extremities in the parasitic protozoan Leishmania
Background: Leishmania and other members of the Trypanosomatidae family diverged early on in eukaryotic evolution and consequently display unique cellular properties. Their appare...
Martin Smith, Mathieu Blanchette, Barbara Papadopo...
BMCBI
2007
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Improved residue contact prediction using support vector machines and a large feature set
Background: Predicting protein residue-residue contacts is an important 2D prediction task. It is useful for ab initio structure prediction and understanding protein folding. In s...
Jianlin Cheng, Pierre Baldi
BMCBI
2010
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Simultaneous prediction of transcription factor binding sites in a group of prokaryotic genomes
Background: Our current understanding of transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) in sequenced prokaryotic genomes is very limited due to the lack of an accurate and efficient c...
Shaoqiang Zhang, Shan Li, Phuc T. Pham, Zhengchang...
BMCBI
2010
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Improving performance of mammalian microRNA target prediction
Background: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are single-stranded non-coding RNAs known to regulate a wide range of cellular processes by silencing the gene expression at the protein and/or mRNA...
Hui Liu, Dong Yue, Yidong Chen, Shou-Jiang Gao, Yu...
BMCBI
2010
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Integrated prediction of one-dimensional structural features and their relationships with conformational flexibility in helical
Background: Many structural properties such as solvent accessibility, dihedral angles and helix-helix contacts can be assigned to each residue in a membrane protein. Independent s...
Shandar Ahmad, Yumlembam Hemjit Singh, Yogesh Paud...