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BMCBI
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
A computational approach to discovering the functions of bacterial phytochromes by analysis of homolog distributions
Background: Phytochromes are photoreceptors, discovered in plants, that control a wide variety of developmental processes. They have also been found in bacteria and fungi, but for...
Tilman Lamparter
BMCBI
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
BIGSdb: Scalable analysis of bacterial genome variation at the population level
Background: The opportunities for bacterial population genomics that are being realised by the application of parallel nucleotide sequencing require novel bioinformatics platforms...
Keith A. Jolley, Martin C. J. Maiden
BMCBI
2011
12 years 8 months ago
Proteinortho: Detection of (Co-)Orthologs in Large-Scale Analysis
Background: Orthology analysis is an important part of data analysis in many areas of bioinformatics such as comparative genomics and molecular phylogenetics. The ever-increasing ...
Marcus Lechner, Sven Findeiß, Lydia Steiner,...
HPDC
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
Modeling sequence and function similarity between proteins for protein functional annotation
A common task in biological research is to predict function for proteins by comparing sequences between proteins of known and unknown function. This is often done using pair-wise ...
Roger Higdon, Brenton Louie, Eugene Kolker
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