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BMCBI
2010
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Predicting changes in protein thermostability brought about by single- or multi-site mutations
Background: An important aspect of protein design is the ability to predict changes in protein thermostability arising from single- or multi-site mutations. Protein thermostabilit...
Jian Tian, Ningfeng Wu, Xiaoyu Chu, Yunliu Fan
BMCBI
2007
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Improved residue contact prediction using support vector machines and a large feature set
Background: Predicting protein residue-residue contacts is an important 2D prediction task. It is useful for ab initio structure prediction and understanding protein folding. In s...
Jianlin Cheng, Pierre Baldi
BMCBI
2005
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ProfNet, a method to derive profile-profile alignment scoring functions that improves the alignments of distantly related protei
Background: Profile-profile methods have been used for some years now to detect and align homologous proteins. The best such methods use information from the background distributi...
Tomas Ohlson, Arne Elofsson
BMCBI
2008
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Application of nonnegative matrix factorization to improve profile-profile alignment features for fold recognition and remote ho
Background: Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) is a feature extraction method that has the property of intuitive part-based representation of the original features. This uniqu...
Inkyung Jung, Jaehyung Lee, Soo-Young Lee, Dongsup...
IJCNN
2006
IEEE
14 years 10 days ago
Comparing Kernels for Predicting Protein Binding Sites from Amino Acid Sequence
— The ability to identify protein binding sites and to detect specific amino acid residues that contribute to the specificity and affinity of protein interactions has importan...
Feihong Wu