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BMCBI
2010
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Amino acid "little Big Bang": Representing amino acid substitution matrices as dot products of Euclidian vectors
Background: Sequence comparisons make use of a one-letter representation for amino acids, the necessary quantitative information being supplied by the substitution matrices. This ...
Karel Zimmermann, Jean-François Gibrat
BIOCOMP
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Evidence for Functional Protein Fragment Homology in Viral Genome Types
In this paper evidence is presented that supports the hypothesis that amino acid usage bias is a fundamental property of viral genome types. Clues to the biological basis for the o...
John Rose, Rishi Mukhopadhyay
BMCBI
2006
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An interactive visualization tool to explore the biophysical properties of amino acids and their contribution to substitution ma
Background: Quantitative descriptions of amino acid similarity, expressed as probabilistic models of evolutionary interchangeability, are central to many mainstream bioinformatic ...
Blazej Bulka, Marie desJardins, Stephen J. Freelan...
JCC
2007
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Peptide reagent design based on physical and chemical properties of amino acid residues
: It has tremendous values for both drug discovery and basic research to develop a solid bioinformatical tool for guiding peptide reagent design. Based on the physical and chemical...
Qishi Du, Ri-Bo Huang, Yu-Tuo Wei, Cheng-Hua Wang,...