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BMCBI
2010
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Knowledge-based annotation of small molecule binding sites in proteins
Background: The study of protein-small molecule interactions is vital for understanding protein function and for practical applications in drug discovery. To benefit from the rapi...
Ratna R. Thangudu, Manoj Tyagi, Benjamin A. Shoema...
BMCBI
2010
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An automated framework for understanding structural variations in the binding grooves of MHC class II molecules
Background: MHC/HLA class II molecules are important components of the immune system and play a critical role in processes such as phagocytosis. Understanding peptide recognition ...
Kalidas Yeturu, Tapani Utriainen, Graham J. L. Kem...
BMCBI
2010
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ChIPpeakAnno: a Bioconductor package to annotate ChIP-seq and ChIP-chip data
Background: Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) followed by high-throughput sequencing (ChIP-seq) or ChIP followed by genome tiling array analysis (ChIP-chip) have become standar...
Lihua J. Zhu, Claude Gazin, Nathan D. Lawson, Herv...
BMCBI
2010
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Apples and oranges: avoiding different priors in Bayesian DNA sequence analysis
Background: One of the challenges of bioinformatics remains the recognition of short signal sequences in genomic DNA such as donor or acceptor splice sites, splicing enhancers or ...
Jens Keilwagen, Jan Grau, Stefan Posch, Ivo Grosse
BMCBI
2010
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Unifying generative and discriminative learning principles
Background: The recognition of functional binding sites in genomic DNA remains one of the fundamental challenges of genome research. During the last decades, a plethora of differe...
Jens Keilwagen, Jan Grau, Stefan Posch, Marc Stric...
BMCBI
2010
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An effective approach for identification of in vivo protein-DNA binding sites from paired-end ChIP-Seq data
Background: ChIP-Seq, which combines chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) with high-throughput massively parallel sequencing, is increasingly being used for identification of prot...
Congmao Wang, Jie Xu, Dasheng Zhang, Zoe A. Wilson...
APBC
2008
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Optimal Algorithm for Finding DNA Motifs with Nucleotide Adjacent Dependency
: Finding motifs and the corresponding binding sites is a critical and challenging problem in studying the process of gene expression. String and matrix representations are two pop...
Francis Y. L. Chin, Henry C. M. Leung, Man-Hung Si...
AOSD
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Edicts: implementing features with flexible binding times
In a software product line, the binding time of a feature is the time at which one decides to include or exclude a feature from a product. Typical binding site implementations are...
Venkat Chakravarthy, John Regehr, Eric Eide
CSB
2003
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
SMASHing regulatory sites in DNA by human
Regulatory sequence elements provide important clues to understanding and predicting gene expression. Although the binding sites for hundreds of transcription factors are known, t...
Mihaela Zavolan, Nicholas D. Socci, Nikolaus Rajew...
WABI
2009
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
biRNA: Fast RNA-RNA Binding Sites Prediction
We present biRNA, a novel algorithm for prediction of binding sites between two RNAs based on minimization of binding free energy. Similar to RNAup approach [30], we assume the bin...
Hamidreza Chitsaz, Rolf Backofen, Süleyman Ce...