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BMCBI
2006
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13 years 5 months ago
A statistical score for assessing the quality of multiple sequence alignments
Background: Multiple sequence alignment is the foundation of many important applications in bioinformatics that aim at detecting functionally important regions, predicting protein...
Virpi Ahola, Tero Aittokallio, Mauno Vihinen, Esa ...
BMCBI
2010
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13 years 5 months ago
Improving pairwise sequence alignment accuracy using near-optimal protein sequence alignments
Background: While the pairwise alignments produced by sequence similarity searches are a powerful tool for identifying homologous proteins - proteins that share a common ancestor ...
Michael L. Sierk, Michael E. Smoot, Ellen J. Bass,...
BMCBI
2007
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13 years 5 months ago
Automatic extraction of reliable regions from multiple sequence alignments
Background: High quality multiple alignments are crucial in the transfer of annotation from one genome to another. Multiple alignment methods strive to achieve ever increasing lev...
Timo Lassmann, Erik L. L. Sonnhammer
BMCBI
2005
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Kalign - an accurate and fast multiple sequence alignment algorithm
Background: The alignment of multiple protein sequences is a fundamental step in the analysis of biological data. It has traditionally been applied to analyzing protein families f...
Timo Lassmann, Erik L. L. Sonnhammer
RECOMB
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Learning Models for Aligning Protein Sequences with Predicted Secondary Structure
Accurately aligning distant protein sequences is notoriously difficult. A recent approach to improving alignment accuracy is to use additional information such as predicted seconda...
Eagu Kim, Travis J. Wheeler, John D. Kececioglu