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ISMB
1998
13 years 5 months ago
A Hidden Markov Model for Predicting Transmembrane Helices in Protein Sequences
A novel method to model and predict the location and orientation of alpha helices in membrane- spanning proteins is presented. It is based on a hidden Markov model (HMM) with an a...
Erik L. L. Sonnhammer, Gunnar von Heijne, Anders K...
ISMIS
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Machine Text-Inspired Machine Learning Approach for Identification of Transmembrane Helix Boundaries
In this paper, we adapt a statistical learning approach, inspired by automated topic segmentation techniques in speech-recognized documents to the challenging protein segmentation ...
Betty Yee Man Cheng, Jaime G. Carbonell, Judith Kl...
BMCBI
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
Algorithms for incorporating prior topological information in HMMs: application to transmembrane proteins
Background: Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) have been extensively used in computational molecular biology, for modelling protein and nucleic acid sequences. In many applications, such...
Pantelis G. Bagos, Theodore D. Liakopoulos, Stavro...
BMCBI
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
IgTM: An algorithm to predict transmembrane domains and topology in proteins
Background: Due to their role of receptors or transporters, membrane proteins play a key role in many important biological functions. In our work we used Grammatical Inference (GI...
Piedachu Peris, Damián López, Marcel...
BMCBI
2005
141views more  BMCBI 2005»
13 years 4 months ago
A method for the prediction of GPCRs coupling specificity to G-proteins using refined profile Hidden Markov Models
Background: G- Protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) comprise the largest group of eukaryotic cell surface receptors with great pharmacological interest. A broad range of native ligan...
Nikolaos G. Sgourakis, Pantelis G. Bagos, Panagiot...