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BMCBI
2008
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A novel series of compositionally biased substitution matrices for comparing Plasmodium proteins
Background: The most common substitution matrices currently used (BLOSUM and PAM) are based on protein sequences with average amino acid distributions, thus they do not represent ...
Kevin Brick, Elisabetta Pizzi
BMCBI
2010
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Protein sequences classification by means of feature extraction with substitution matrices
Background: This paper deals with the preprocessing of protein sequences for supervised classification. Motif extraction is one way to address that task. It has been largely used ...
Rabie Saidi, Mondher Maddouri, Engelbert Mephu Ngu...
BMCBI
2010
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Amino acid "little Big Bang": Representing amino acid substitution matrices as dot products of Euclidian vectors
Background: Sequence comparisons make use of a one-letter representation for amino acids, the necessary quantitative information being supplied by the substitution matrices. This ...
Karel Zimmermann, Jean-François Gibrat
LION
2009
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
Substitution Matrices and Mutual Information Approaches to Modeling Evolution
Abstract. Substitution matrices are at the heart of Bioinformatics: sequence alignment, database search, phylogenetic inference, protein family classication are based on Blosum, P...
Stephan Kitchovitch, Yuedong Song, Richard C. van ...