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BMCBI
2010
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13 years 5 months ago
Calling SNPs without a reference sequence
Background: The most common application for the next-generation sequencing technologies is resequencing, where short reads from the genome of an individual are aligned to a refere...
Aakrosh Ratan, Yu Zhang, Vanessa M. Hayes, Stephan...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Pairwise statistical significance of local sequence alignment using multiple parameter sets
Background: Accurate estimation of statistical significance of a pairwise alignment is an important problem in sequence comparison. Recently, a comparative study of pairwise stati...
Ankit Agrawal, Xiaoqiu Huang
JCB
2000
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13 years 5 months ago
Evaluation Measures of Multiple Sequence Alignments
Multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) are frequently used in the study of families of protein sequences or DNA/RNA sequences. They are a fundamental tool for the understanding of th...
Gaston H. Gonnet, Chantal Korostensky, Steven A. B...
BMCBI
2007
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13 years 5 months ago
SEARCHPATTOOL: a new method for mining the most specific frequent patterns for binding sites with application to prokaryotic DNA
Background: Computational methods to predict transcription factor binding sites (TFBS) based on exhaustive algorithms are guaranteed to find the best patterns but are often limite...
Fathi Elloumi, Martha Nason
BMCBI
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
Subfamily specific conservation profiles for proteins based on n-gram patterns
Background: A new algorithm has been developed for generating conservation profiles that reflect the evolutionary history of the subfamily associated with a query sequence. It is ...
John K. Vries, Xiong Liu