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BMCBI
2005
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Scoredist: A simple and robust protein sequence distance estimator
Background: Distance-based methods are popular for reconstructing evolutionary trees thanks to their speed and generality. A number of methods exist for estimating distances from ...
Erik L. L. Sonnhammer, Volker Hollich
BMCBI
2005
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Evolutionary models for insertions and deletions in a probabilistic modeling framework
Background: Probabilistic models for sequence comparison (such as hidden Markov models and pair hidden Markov models for proteins and mRNAs, or their context-free grammar counterp...
Elena Rivas
BMCBI
2006
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13 years 5 months ago
MCALIGN2: Faster, accurate global pairwise alignment of non-coding DNA sequences based on explicit models of indel evolution
Background: Non-coding DNA sequences comprise a very large proportion of the total genomic content of mammals, most other vertebrates, many invertebrates, and most plants. Unravel...
Jun Wang, Peter D. Keightley, Toby Johnson
BMCBI
2007
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Recodon: Coalescent simulation of coding DNA sequences with recombination, migration and demography
Background: Coalescent simulations have proven very useful in many population genetics studies. In order to arrive to meaningful conclusions, it is important that these simulation...
Miguel Arenas, David Posada
BMCBI
2006
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A novel scoring schema for peptide identification by searching protein sequence databases using tandem mass spectrometry data
Background: Tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) is a powerful tool for protein identification. Although great efforts have been made in scoring the correlation between tandem mass sp...
Zhuo Zhang, Shiwei Sun, Xiaopeng Zhu, Suhua Chang,...