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NAR
1998
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Pfam: multiple sequence alignments and HMM-profiles of protein domains
Pfam contains multiple alignments and hidden Markov model based profiles (HMM-profiles) of complete protein domains. The definition of domain boundaries, family members and alignm...
Erik L. L. Sonnhammer, Sean R. Eddy, Ewan Birney, ...
NAR
2000
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MitoNuc and MitoAln: two related databases of nuclear genes coding for mitochondrial proteins
Mitochondria, besides their central role in energy metabolism, have recently been found to be involved in a number of basic processes of cell life and to contribute to the pathoge...
Graziano Pesole, Carmela Gissi, Domenico Catalano,...
BMCBI
2004
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Gapped alignment of protein sequence motifs through Monte Carlo optimization of a hidden Markov model
Background: Certain protein families are highly conserved across distantly related organisms and belong to large and functionally diverse superfamilies. The patterns of conservati...
Andrew F. Neuwald, Jun S. Liu
BMCBI
2005
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Ancestral sequence alignment under optimal conditions
Background: Multiple genome alignment is an important problem in bioinformatics. An important subproblem used by many multiple alignment approaches is that of aligning two multipl...
Alexander K. Hudek, Daniel G. Brown 0001
BMCBI
2007
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ProCMD: a database and 3D web resource for protein C mutants
Background: Activated Protein C (ProC) is an anticoagulant plasma serine protease which also plays an important role in controlling inflammation and cell proliferation. Several mu...
Pasqualina D'Ursi, Francesca Marino, Andrea Caprer...
BMCBI
2007
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Automatic extraction of reliable regions from multiple sequence alignments
Background: High quality multiple alignments are crucial in the transfer of annotation from one genome to another. Multiple alignment methods strive to achieve ever increasing lev...
Timo Lassmann, Erik L. L. Sonnhammer
BMCBI
2006
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Detecting the limits of regulatory element conservation and divergence estimation using pairwise and multiple alignments
Background: Molecular evolutionary studies of noncoding sequences rely on multiple alignments. Yet how multiple alignment accuracy varies across sequence types, tree topologies, d...
Daniel A. Pollard, Alan M. Moses, Venky N. Iyer, M...
BMCBI
2008
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Dinucleotide controlled null models for comparative RNA gene prediction
Background: Comparative prediction of RNA structures can be used to identify functional noncoding RNAs in genomic screens. It was shown recently by Babak et al. [BMC Bioinformatic...
Tanja Gesell, Stefan Washietl
BMCBI
2010
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MS4 - Multi-Scale Selector of Sequence Signatures: An alignment-free method for classification of biological sequences
Background: While multiple alignment is the first step of usual classification schemes for biological sequences, alignment-free methods are being increasingly used as alternatives...
Eduardo Corel, Florian Pitschi, Ivan Laprevotte, G...
ISMB
1993
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Using Dirichlet Mixture Priors to Derive Hidden Markov Models for Protein Families
A Bayesian method for estimating the amino acid distributions in the states of a hidden Markov model (HMM) for a protein familyor the columns of a multiple alignment of that famil...
Michael Brown, Richard Hughey, Anders Krogh, I. Sa...