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BMCBI
2005
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Predicting functional sites with an automated algorithm suitable for heterogeneous datasets
Background: In a previous report (La et al., Proteins, 2005), we have demonstrated that the identification of phylogenetic motifs, protein sequence fragments conserving the overal...
David La, Dennis R. Livesay
WABI
2005
Springer
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A Compressed Format for Collections of Phylogenetic Trees and Improved Consensus Performance
Phylogenetic tree searching algorithms often produce thousands of trees which biologists save in Newick format in order to perform further analysis. Unfortunately, Newick is neithe...
Robert S. Boyer, Warren A. Hunt Jr., Serita M. Nel...
BMCBI
2007
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A survey of DNA motif finding algorithms
Background: Unraveling the mechanisms that regulate gene expression is a major challenge in biology. An important task in this challenge is to identify regulatory elements, especi...
Modan K. Das, Ho-Kwok Dai
BMCBI
2006
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Cis-motifs upstream of the transcription and translation initiation sites are effectively revealed by their positional disequili
Background: The discovery of cis-regulatory motifs still remains a challenging task even though the number of sequenced genomes is constantly growing. Computational analyses using...
Kenneth W. Berendzen, Kurt Stüber, Klaus Hart...
IJCBDD
2008
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Parsimony accelerated Maximum Likelihood searches
: Phylogenetic search is a key tool used in a variety of biological research endeavors. However, this search problem is known to be computationally difficult, due to the astronomic...
Kenneth Sundberg, Timothy O'Connor, Hyrum Carroll,...