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JCB
1998
13 years 4 months ago
1998
Abstract. The method of invariants is an approach to the problem of reconstructing the phylogenetic tree of a collection of m taxa using nucleotide sequence data. Models for the re...
BMCBI
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Background: Sequence comparisons make use of a one-letter representation for amino acids, the necessary quantitative information being supplied by the substitution matrices. This ...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
Background: Comparative genomics aims to detect signals of evolutionary conservation as an indicator of functional constraint. Surprisingly, results of the ENCODE project revealed...
BMCBI
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Background: This paper deals with the preprocessing of protein sequences for supervised classification. Motif extraction is one way to address that task. It has been largely used ...
BMCBI
2005
13 years 4 months ago
2005
Background: Distance-based methods are popular for reconstructing evolutionary trees thanks to their speed and generality. A number of methods exist for estimating distances from ...