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BMCBI
2008
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Prediction of protein-protein binding site by using core interface residue and support vector machine
Background: The prediction of protein-protein binding site can provide structural annotation to the protein interaction data from proteomics studies. This is very important for th...
Nan Li, Zhonghua Sun, Fan Jiang
BMCBI
2007
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RepSeq - A database of amino acid repeats present in lower eukaryotic pathogens
Background: Amino acid repeat-containing proteins have a broad range of functions and their identification is of relevance to many experimental biologists. In human-infective prot...
Daniel P. Depledge, Ryan P. J. Lower, Deborah F. S...
BMCBI
2010
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Incorporating significant amino acid pairs to identify O-linked glycosylation sites on transmembrane proteins and non-transmembr
Background: While occurring enzymatically in biological systems, O-linked glycosylation affects protein folding, localization and trafficking, protein solubility, antigenicity, bi...
Shu-An Chen, Tzong-Yi Lee, Yu-Yen Ou
BMCBI
2010
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Fast and accurate protein substructure searching with simulated annealing and GPUs
Background: Searching a database of protein structures for matches to a query structure, or occurrences of a structural motif, is an important task in structural biology and bioin...
Alex Stivala, Peter J. Stuckey, Anthony Wirth
BMCBI
2010
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Trees on networks: resolving statistical patterns of phylogenetic similarities among interacting proteins
Background: Phylogenies capture the evolutionary ancestry linking extant species. Correlations and similarities among a set of species are mediated by and need to be understood in...
William P. Kelly, Michael P. H. Stumpf
BMCBI
2008
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Inferring modules of functionally interacting proteins using the Bond Energy Algorithm
Background: Non-homology based methods such as phylogenetic profiles are effective for predicting functional relationships between proteins with no considerable sequence or struct...
Ryosuke Watanabe, Enrique Morett, Edgar E. Vallejo
BMCBI
2008
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A probabilistic framework to predict protein function from interaction data integrated with semantic knowledge
Background: The functional characterization of newly discovered proteins has been a challenge in the post-genomic era. Protein-protein interactions provide insights into the funct...
Young-Rae Cho, Lei Shi, Murali Ramanathan, Aidong ...
BMCBI
2008
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Predicting protein linkages in bacteria: Which method is best depends on task
Background: Applications of computational methods for predicting protein functional linkages are increasing. In recent years, several bacteria-specific methods for predicting link...
Anis Karimpour-Fard, Sonia M. Leach, Ryan T. Gill,...
BMCBI
2007
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Relationship between insertion/deletion (indel) frequency of proteins and essentiality
Background: In a previous study, we demonstrated that some essential proteins from pathogenic organisms contained sizable insertions/deletions (indels) when aligned to human prote...
Simon K. Chan, Michael Hsing, Fereydoun Hormozdiar...
BMCBI
2010
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Predicting changes in protein thermostability brought about by single- or multi-site mutations
Background: An important aspect of protein design is the ability to predict changes in protein thermostability arising from single- or multi-site mutations. Protein thermostabilit...
Jian Tian, Ningfeng Wu, Xiaoyu Chu, Yunliu Fan