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ISMB
1997
13 years 6 months ago
Selecting Optimal Oligonucleotide Primers for Multiplex PCR
Weinvestigate the problemof designingefficient multiplex PCRfor medical applications. Weshowthat the problemis NP-completeby transformation to the Multiple Choice Matchingproblema...
Pierre Nicodème, Jean-Marc Steyaert
ISMB
1997
13 years 6 months ago
Enumerating and Ranking Discrete Motifs
Discrete motifsthat discriminate functionalclasses of proteins are useful for classifying newsequences, capturingstructural constraints, andidentifyingprotein subclasses.Despiteth...
Craig G. Nevill-Manning, Komal S. Sethi, Thomas D....
ISMB
1997
13 years 6 months ago
A Fast Heuristic Algorithm for a Probe Mapping Problem
Anewheuristic algorithm is presented for mapping probes to locations along the genome,given noisy pairwise distance data as input. Themodel consideredis quite general: Theinput co...
Brendan Mumey
ISMB
1997
13 years 6 months ago
Automatic Construction of Knowledge Base from Biological Papers
Yoshihiro Ohta, Yasunori Yamamoto, Tomoko Okazaki,...
ISMB
1997
13 years 6 months ago
Prediction of Enzyme Classification from Protein Sequence without the Use of Sequence Similarity
1 W’edescribe a novel approach for predicting the function of a protein from its amino-acid sequence. Given features that can be computedfrom the amino-acid sequence in a straigh...
Marie desJardins, Peter D. Karp, Markus Krummenack...
ISMB
1997
13 years 6 months ago
Identifying Chimerism in Proteins Using Hidden Markov Models of Codon Usage
Protein chimerism is a phenomenon involving the combination of multiple ancestral sequences into a single, multi-domain protein through evolution. We propose a novel method for de...
Lawrence Hunter, Barry Zeeberg