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BMCBI
2010
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Proteome scanning to predict PDZ domain interactions using support vector machines
Background: PDZ domains mediate protein-protein interactions involved in important biological processes through the recognition of short linear motifs in their target proteins. Tw...
Shirley Hui, Gary D. Bader
BMCBI
2007
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Sequence similarity is more relevant than species specificity in probabilistic backtranslation
Background: Backtranslation is the process of decoding a sequence of amino acids into the corresponding codons. All synthetic gene design systems include a backtranslation module....
Alfredo Ferro, Rosalba Giugno, Giuseppe Pigola, Al...
BMCBI
2007
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Towards a comprehensive structural coverage of completed genomes: a structural genomics viewpoint
Background: Structural genomics initiatives were established with the aim of solving protein structures on a large-scale. For many initiatives, such as the Protein Structure Initi...
Russell L. Marsden, Tony A. Lewis, Christine A. Or...
BMCBI
2008
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Predicting the Interactome of Xanthomonas oryzae pathovar oryzae for target selection and DB service
Background: Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) play key roles in various cellular functions. In addition, some critical inter-species interactions such as host-pathogen interacti...
Jeong-Gu Kim, Daeui Park, Byoung-Chul Kim, Seong-W...
BMCBI
2010
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Assessment and optimisation of normalisation methods for dual-colour antibody microarrays
Background: Recent advances in antibody microarray technology have made it possible to measure the expression of hundreds of proteins simultaneously in a competitive dual-colour a...
Martin Sill, Christoph Schroder, Jörg D. Hohe...
BMCBI
2010
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The LabelHash Algorithm for Substructure Matching
Background: There is an increasing number of proteins with known structure but unknown function. Determining their function would have a significant impact on understanding diseas...
Mark Moll, Drew H. Bryant, Lydia E. Kavraki
BMCBI
2007
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Large scale clustering of protein sequences with FORCE -A layout based heuristic for weighted cluster editing
Background: Detecting groups of functionally related proteins from their amino acid sequence alone has been a long-standing challenge in computational genome research. Several clu...
Tobias Wittkop, Jan Baumbach, Francisco P. Lobo, S...
BMCBI
2010
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Clustering of protein families into functional subtypes using Relative Complexity Measure with reduced amino acid alphabets
Background: Phylogenetic analysis can be used to divide a protein family into subfamilies in the absence of experimental information. Most phylogenetic analysis methods utilize mu...
Aydin Albayrak, Hasan H. Otu, Ugur O. Sezerman
BMCBI
2008
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IgTM: An algorithm to predict transmembrane domains and topology in proteins
Background: Due to their role of receptors or transporters, membrane proteins play a key role in many important biological functions. In our work we used Grammatical Inference (GI...
Piedachu Peris, Damián López, Marcel...
BMCBI
2008
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Modifying the DPClus algorithm for identifying protein complexes based on new topological structures
Background: Identification of protein complexes is crucial for understanding principles of cellular organization and functions. As the size of protein-protein interaction set incr...
Min Li, Jianer Chen, Jianxin Wang, Bin Hu, Gang Ch...