This paper describes the participation of the Technical University of Catalonia in the CLEF 2008 Question Answering on Speech Transcripts track. We have participated in the Englis...
FROST (Fold Recognition-Oriented Search Tool) [6] is a software whose purpose is to assign a 3D structure to a protein sequence. It is based on a series of filters and uses a dat...
Vincent Poirriez, Rumen Andonov, Antoine Marin, Je...
Background: Collections of transcription factor binding profiles (Transfac, Jaspar) are essential to identify regulatory elements in DNA sequences. Subsets of highly similar profi...
Szymon M. Kielbasa, Didier Gonze, Hanspeter Herzel
In biological sequence research, the positional weight matrix (PWM) is often used to search for putative transcription factor binding sites. A set of experimentally verified oligon...
Background: Profile hidden Markov model (HMM) techniques are among the most powerful methods for protein homology detection. Yet, the critical features for successful modelling ar...