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BMCBI
2008
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Use of machine learning algorithms to classify binary protein sequences as highly-designable or poorly-designable
Background: By using a standard Support Vector Machine (SVM) with a Sequential Minimal Optimization (SMO) method of training, Na
Myron Peto, Andrzej Kloczkowski, Vasant Honavar, R...
BMCBI
2008
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PatternLab for proteomics: a tool for differential shotgun proteomics
Background: A goal of proteomics is to distinguish between states of a biological system by identifying protein expression differences. Liu et al. demonstrated a method to perform...
Paulo C. Carvalho, Juliana S. G. Fischer, Emily I....
BMCBI
2008
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Indel PDB: A database of structural insertions and deletions derived from sequence alignments of closely related proteins
Background: Insertions and deletions (indels) represent a common type of sequence variations, which are less studied and pose many important biological questions. Recent research ...
Michael Hsing, Artem Cherkasov
BMCBI
2008
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Structural assembly of two-domain proteins by rigid-body docking
Background: Modelling proteins with multiple domains is one of the central challenges in Structural Biology. Although homology modelling has successfully been applied for predicti...
Tammy M. K. Cheng, Tom L. Blundell, Juan Fern&aacu...
BMCBI
2007
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Gene network interconnectedness and the generalized topological overlap measure
Background: Network methods are increasingly used to represent the interactions of genes and/ or proteins. Genes or proteins that are directly linked may have a similar biological...
Andy M. Yip, Steve Horvath
BMCBI
2007
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Automatic extraction of gene ontology annotation and its correlation with clusters in protein networks
Background: Uncovering cellular roles of a protein is a task of tremendous importance and complexity that requires dedicated experimental work as well as often sophisticated data ...
Nikolai Daraselia, Anton Yuryev, Sergei Egorov, Il...
BMCBI
2007
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AGGRESCAN: a server for the prediction and evaluation of "hot spots" of aggregation in polypeptides
Background: Protein aggregation correlates with the development of several debilitating human disorders of growing incidence, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease...
Oscar Conchillo-Solé, Natalia S. de Groot, ...
BMCBI
2007
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XSTREAM: A practical algorithm for identification and architecture modeling of tandem repeats in protein sequences
Background: Biological sequence repeats arranged in tandem patterns are widespread in DNA and proteins. While many software tools have been designed to detect DNA tandem repeats (...
Aaron M. Newman, James B. Cooper
BMCBI
2007
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Relating destabilizing regions to known functional sites in proteins
Background: Most methods for predicting functional sites in protein 3D structures, rely on information on related proteins and cannot be applied to proteins with no known relative...
Benoit H. Dessailly, Marc F. Lensink, Shoshana J. ...
BMCBI
2008
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Identification and correction of abnormal, incomplete and mispredicted proteins in public databases
Background: Despite significant improvements in computational annotation of genomes, sequences of abnormal, incomplete or incorrectly predicted genes and proteins remain abundant ...
Alinda Nagy, Hédi Hegyi, Krisztina Farkas, ...