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BMCBI
2008
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The contrasting properties of conservation and correlated phylogeny in protein functional residue prediction
Background: Amino acids responsible for structure, core function or specificity may be inferred from multiple protein sequence alignments where a limited set of residue types are ...
Jonathan R. Manning, Emily R. Jefferson, Geoffrey ...
BMCBI
2006
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Incorporating background frequency improves entropy-based residue conservation measures
Background: Several entropy-based methods have been developed for scoring sequence conservation in protein multiple sequence alignments. High scoring amino acid positions may corr...
Kai Wang, Ram Samudrala
BMCBI
2008
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Structural descriptor database: a new tool for sequence-based functional site prediction
Background: The Structural Descriptor Database (SDDB) is a web-based tool that predicts the function of proteins and functional site positions based on the structural properties o...
Juliana S. Bernardes, Jorge H. Fernandez, Ana Tere...
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
BMCBI
2008
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Sequence based residue depth prediction using evolutionary information and predicted secondary structure
Background: Residue depth allows determining how deeply a given residue is buried, in contrast to the solvent accessibility that differentiates between buried and solvent-exposed ...
Hua Zhang, Tuo Zhang, Ke Chen 0003, Shiyi Shen, Ji...