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BMCBI
2008
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A software application for comparing large numbers of high resolution MALDI-FTICR MS spectra demonstrated by searching candidate
Background: A JavaTM application is presented, which compares large numbers (n > 100) of raw FTICR mass spectra from patients and controls. Two peptide profile matrices can be ...
Mark K. Titulaer, Dana A. N. Mustafa, Ivar Siccama...
BMCBI
2008
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A simplified approach to disulfide connectivity prediction from protein sequences
Background: Prediction of disulfide bridges from protein sequences is useful for characterizing structural and functional properties of proteins. Several methods based on differen...
Marc Vincent, Andrea Passerini, Matthieu Labb&eacu...
BMCBI
2008
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Testing the Coulomb/Accessible Surface Area solvent model for protein stability, ligand binding, and protein design
Background: Protein structure prediction and computational protein design require efficient yet sufficiently accurate descriptions of aqueous solvent. We continue to evaluate the ...
Marcel Schmidt am Busch, Anne Lopes, Najette Amara...
BMCBI
2008
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NestedMICA as an ab initio protein motif discovery tool
Background: Discovering overrepresented patterns in amino acid sequences is an important step in protein functional element identification. We adapted and extended NestedMICA, an ...
Mutlu Dogruel, Thomas A. Down, Tim J. P. Hubbard
BMCBI
2007
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UbiProt: a database of ubiquitylated proteins
Background: Post-translational protein modification with ubiquitin, or ubiquitylation, is one of the hottest topics in a modern biology due to a dramatic impact on diverse metabol...
Alexander L. Chernorudskiy, Alejandro Garcia, Euge...
BMCBI
2010
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Conserved residue clusters at protein-protein interfaces and their use in binding site identification
Background: Biological evolution conserves protein residues that are important for structure and function. Both protein stability and function often require a certain degree of st...
Mainak Guharoy, Pinak Chakrabarti
BMCBI
2008
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MSDmotif: exploring protein sites and motifs
Background: Protein structures have conserved features
Adel Golovin, Kim Henrick
BMCBI
2007
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TAP score: torsion angle propensity normalization applied to local protein structure evaluation
Background: Experimentally determined protein structures may contain errors and require validation. Conformational criteria based on the Ramachandran plot are mainly used to disti...
Silvio C. E. Tosatto, Roberto Battistutta
BMCBI
2008
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Can molecular dynamics simulations help in discriminating correct from erroneous protein 3D models?
Background: Recent approaches for predicting the three-dimensional (3D) structure of proteins such as de novo or fold recognition methods mostly rely on simplified energy potentia...
Jean-François Taly, Antoine Marin, Jean-Fra...
BMCBI
2008
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The combination approach of SVM and ECOC for powerful identification and classification of transcription factor
Background: Transcription factors (TFs) are core functional proteins which play important roles in gene expression control, and they are key factors for gene regulation network co...
Guangyong Zheng, Ziliang Qian, Qing Yang, Chaochun...