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BMCBI
2008
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A new protein linear motif benchmark for multiple sequence alignment software
Background: Linear motifs (LMs) are abundant short regulatory sites used for modulating the functions of many eukaryotic proteins. They play important roles in post-translational ...
Emmanuel Perrodou, Claudia Chica, Olivier Poch, To...
ALMOB
2006
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A combinatorial optimization approach for diverse motif finding applications
Background: Discovering approximately repeated patterns, or motifs, in biological sequences is an important and widely-studied problem in computational molecular biology. Most fre...
Elena Zaslavsky, Mona Singh
BMCBI
2008
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Genome-scale study of the importance of binding site context for transcription factor binding and gene regulation
Background: The rate of mRNA transcription is controlled by transcription factors that bind to specific DNA motifs in promoter regions upstream of protein coding genes. Recent res...
Jakub Orzechowski Westholm, Feifei Xu, Hans Ronne,...
BMCBI
2007
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Local comparison of protein structures highlights cases of convergent evolution in analogous functional sites
Background: We performed an exhaustive search for local structural similarities in an ensemble of non-redundant protein functional sites. With the purpose of finding new examples ...
Gabriele Ausiello, Daniele Peluso, Allegra Via, Ma...
BMCBI
2010
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The LabelHash Algorithm for Substructure Matching
Background: There is an increasing number of proteins with known structure but unknown function. Determining their function would have a significant impact on understanding diseas...
Mark Moll, Drew H. Bryant, Lydia E. Kavraki