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BMCBI
2006
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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
2007
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Supervised multivariate analysis of sequence groups to identify specificity determining residues
Background: Proteins that evolve from a common ancestor can change functionality over time, and it is important to be able identify residues that cause this change. In this paper ...
Iain M. Wallace, Desmond G. Higgins
ALMOB
2008
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Fast algorithms for computing sequence distances by exhaustive substring composition
The increasing throughput of sequencing raises growing needs for methods of sequence analysis and comparison on a genomic scale, notably, in connection with phylogenetic tree reco...
Alberto Apostolico, Olgert Denas
BMCBI
2006
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MultiSeq: unifying sequence and structure data for evolutionary analysis
Background: Since the publication of the first draft of the human genome in 2000, bioinformatic data have been accumulating at an overwhelming pace. Currently, more than 3 million...
Elijah Roberts, John Eargle, Dan Wright, Zaida Lut...
BMCBI
2005
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SIMPROT: Using an empirically determined indel distribution in simulations of protein evolution
Background: General protein evolution models help determine the baseline expectations for the evolution of sequences, and they have been extensively useful in sequence analysis an...
Andy Pang, Andrew D. Smith, Paulo A. S. Nuin, Elis...