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BMCBI
2010
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Evolutionary rates at codon sites may be used to align sequences and infer protein domain function
Background: Sequence alignments form part of many investigations in molecular biology, including the determination of phylogenetic relationships, the prediction of protein structu...
Pierre M. Durand, Scott Hazelhurst, Theresa L. Coe...
BMCBI
2006
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13 years 5 months ago
Incorporating background frequency improves entropy-based residue conservation measures
Background: Several entropy-based methods have been developed for scoring sequence conservation in protein multiple sequence alignments. High scoring amino acid positions may corr...
Kai Wang, Ram Samudrala
BMCBI
2011
12 years 12 months ago
DoBo: Protein domain boundary prediction by integrating evolutionary signals and machine learning
Background: Accurate identification of protein domain boundaries is useful for protein structure determination and prediction. However, predicting protein domain boundaries from a...
Jesse Eickholt, Xin Deng, Jianlin Cheng
BMCBI
2008
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WSPMaker: a web tool for calculating selection pressure in proteins and domains using window-sliding
Background: In the study of adaptive evolution, it is important to detect the protein coding sites where natural selection is acting. In general, the ratio of the rate of non-syno...
Yong Seok Lee, Tae-Hyung Kim, Tae-Wook Kang, Won-H...
BMCBI
2005
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13 years 4 months ago
PSI-BLAST-ISS: an intermediate sequence search tool for estimation of the position-specific alignment reliability
Background: Protein sequence alignments have become indispensable for virtually any evolutionary, structural or functional study involving proteins. Modern sequence search and com...
Mindaugas Margelevicius, Ceslovas Venclovas