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BMCBI
2007
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Genes2Networks: connecting lists of gene symbols using mammalian protein interactions databases
Background: In recent years, mammalian protein-protein interaction network databases have been developed. The interactions in these databases are either extracted manually from lo...
Seth I. Berger, Jeremy M. Posner, Avi Ma'ayan
BMCBI
2008
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Gene identification and protein classification in microbial metagenomic sequence data via incremental clustering
Background: The identification and study of proteins from metagenomic datasets can shed light on the roles and interactions of the source organisms in their communities. However, ...
Shibu Yooseph, Weizhong Li, Granger G. Sutton
BMCBI
2007
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FlexOracle: predicting flexible hinges by identification of stable domains
Background: Protein motions play an essential role in catalysis and protein-ligand interactions, but are difficult to observe directly. A substantial fraction of protein motions i...
Samuel Flores, Mark Gerstein
BMCBI
2010
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A semi-nonparametric mixture model for selecting functionally consistent proteins
Background: High-throughput technologies have led to a new era of proteomics. Although protein microarray experiments are becoming more common place there are a variety of experim...
Lianbo Yu, R. W. Doerge
BMCBI
2008
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Protein contact order prediction from primary sequences
Background: Contact order is a topological descriptor that has been shown to be correlated with several interesting protein properties such as protein folding rates and protein tr...
Yi Shi, Jianjun Zhou, David Arndt, David S. Wishar...
BMCBI
2007
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A topological algorithm for identification of structural domains of proteins
Background: Identification of the structural domains of proteins is important for our understanding of the organizational principles and mechanisms of protein folding, and for ins...
Frank Emmert-Streib, Arcady R. Mushegian
BMCBI
2008
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iRefIndex: A consolidated protein interaction database with provenance
Background: Interaction data for a given protein may be spread across multiple databases. We set out to create a unifying index that would facilitate searching for these data and ...
Sabry Razick, George Magklaras, Ian M. Donaldson
BMCBI
2008
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ElliPro: a new structure-based tool for the prediction of antibody epitopes
Background: Reliable prediction of antibody, or B-cell, epitopes remains challenging yet highly desirable for the design of vaccines and immunodiagnostics. A correlation between a...
Julia V. Ponomarenko, Huynh-Hoa Bui, Wei Li, Nicho...
BMCBI
2008
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Defining functional distances over Gene Ontology
Background: A fundamental problem when trying to define the functional relationships between proteins is the difficulty in quantifying functional similarities, even when well-stru...
Angela del Pozo, Florencio Pazos, Alfonso Valencia
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BMCBI
2010
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FACT: Functional annotation transfer between proteins with similar feature architectures
Background: The increasing number of sequenced genomes provides the basis for exploring the genetic and functional diversity within the tree of life. Only a tiny fraction of the e...
Tina Koestler, Arndt von Haeseler, Ingo Ebersberge...