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BMCBI
2004
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Improvement of alignment accuracy utilizing sequentially conserved motifs
Background: Multiple sequence alignment algorithms are very important tools in molecular biology today. Accurate alignment of proteins is central to several areas such as homology...
Saikat Chakrabarti, Nitin Bhardwaj, Prem A. Anand,...
BMCBI
2005
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13 years 4 months ago
The distance-profile representation and its application to detection of distantly related protein families
Background: Detecting homology between remotely related protein families is an important problem in computational biology since the biological properties of uncharacterized protei...
Chin-Jen Ku, Golan Yona
BMCBI
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
A statistical score for assessing the quality of multiple sequence alignments
Background: Multiple sequence alignment is the foundation of many important applications in bioinformatics that aim at detecting functionally important regions, predicting protein...
Virpi Ahola, Tero Aittokallio, Mauno Vihinen, Esa ...
BMCBI
2007
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WeederH: an algorithm for finding conserved regulatory motifs and regions in homologous sequences
Background: This work addresses the problem of detecting conserved transcription factor binding sites and in general regulatory regions through the analysis of sequences from homo...
Giulio Pavesi, Federico Zambelli, Graziano Pesole
ECCB
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Connect the dots: exposing hidden protein family connections from the entire sequence tree
Motivation: Mapping of remote evolutionary links is a classic computational problem of much interest. Relating protein families allows for functional and structural inference on u...
Yaniv Loewenstein, Michal Linial