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BIBE
2006
IEEE
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Large Grain Size Stochastic Optimization Alignment
DNA sequence alignment is a critical step in identifying homology between organisms. The most widely used alignment program, ClustalW, is known to suffer from the local minima pro...
Perry Ridge, Hyrum Carroll, Dan Sneddon, Mark J. C...
BMCBI
2005
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13 years 5 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
BMCBI
2005
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The distance-profile representation and its application to detection of distantly related protein families
Background: Detecting homology between remotely related protein families is an important problem in computational biology since the biological properties of uncharacterized protei...
Chin-Jen Ku, Golan Yona
BMCBI
2008
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ConStruct: Improved construction of RNA consensus structures
Background: Aligning homologous non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) correctly in terms of sequence and structure is an unresolved problem, due to both mathematical complexity and imperfect s...
Andreas Wilm, Kornelia Linnenbrink, Gerhard Steger
NAR
2008
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PROMALS3D web server for accurate multiple protein sequence and structure alignments
Multiple sequence alignments are essential in computational sequence and structural analysis, with applications in homology detection, structure modeling, function prediction and ...
Jimin Pei, Ming Tang, Nick V. Grishin