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BMCBI
2007
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13 years 5 months ago
False occurrences of functional motifs in protein sequences highlight evolutionary constraints
Background: False occurrences of functional motifs in protein sequences can be considered as random events due solely to the sequence composition of a proteome. Here we use a nume...
Allegra Via, Pier Federico Gherardini, Enrico Ferr...
BMCBI
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
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
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Motif kernel generated by genetic programming improves remote homology and fold detection
Background: Protein remote homology detection is a central problem in computational biology. Most recent methods train support vector machines to discriminate between related and ...
Tony Håndstad, Arne J. H. Hestnes, Pål...
WABI
2010
Springer
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13 years 3 months ago
Quantifying the Strength of Natural Selection of a Motif Sequence
Quantification of selective pressures on regulatory sequences is a central question in studying the evolution of gene regulatory networks. Previous methods focus primarily on sing...
Chen-Hsiang Yeang
ICASSP
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Evolutionary Sequence Modeling for Discovery of Peptide Hormones
There are currently a large number of ‘‘orphan’’ G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) whose endogenous ligands (peptide hormones) are unknown. Identification of these pepti...
M. Kemal Sönmez, Lawrence Toll, Nina Zaveri