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BMCBI
2008
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A novel series of compositionally biased substitution matrices for comparing Plasmodium proteins
Background: The most common substitution matrices currently used (BLOSUM and PAM) are based on protein sequences with average amino acid distributions, thus they do not represent ...
Kevin Brick, Elisabetta Pizzi
BMCBI
2007
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TPRpred: a tool for prediction of TPR-, PPR- and SEL1-like repeats from protein sequences
Background: Solenoid repeat proteins of the Tetratrico Peptide Repeat (TPR) family are involved as scaffolds in a broad range of protein-protein interactions. Several resources ar...
Manjunatha R. Karpenahalli, Andrei N. Lupas, Johan...
BMCBI
2010
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Computing H/D-Exchange rates of single residues from data of proteolytic fragments
Background: Protein conformation and protein/protein interaction can be elucidated by solution-phase Hydrogen/ Deuterium exchange (sHDX) coupled to high-resolution mass analysis o...
Ernst Althaus, Stefan Canzar, Carsten Ehrler, Mark...
BMCBI
2007
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CLUSS: Clustering of protein sequences based on a new similarity measure
Background: The rapid burgeoning of available protein data makes the use of clustering within families of proteins increasingly important. The challenge is to identify subfamilies...
Abdellali Kelil, Shengrui Wang, Ryszard Brzezinski...
BMCBI
2010
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Active learning for human protein-protein interaction prediction
Background: Biological processes in cells are carried out by means of protein-protein interactions. Determining whether a pair of proteins interacts by wet-lab experiments is reso...
Thahir P. Mohamed, Jaime G. Carbonell, Madhavi Gan...
BMCBI
2010
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Identification of functional hubs and modules by converting interactome networks into hierarchical ordering of proteins
Background: Protein-protein interactions play a key role in biological processes of proteins within a cell. Recent high-throughput techniques have generated protein-protein intera...
Young-Rae Cho, Aidong Zhang
BMCBI
2010
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Efficient protein alignment algorithm for protein search
Background: Proteins show a great variety of 3D conformations, which can be used to infer their evolutionary relationship and to classify them into more general groups; therefore ...
Zaixin Lu, Zhiyu Zhao, Bin Fu
BMCBI
2010
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High quality protein sequence alignment by combining structural profile prediction and profile alignment using SABERTOOTH
Background: Protein alignments are an essential tool for many bioinformatics analyses. While sequence alignments are accurate for proteins of high sequence similarity, they become...
Florian Teichert, Jonas Minning, Ugo Bastolla, Mar...
BMCBI
2010
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Detection of distant evolutionary relationships between protein families using theory of sequence profile-profile comparison
Background: Detection of common evolutionary origin (homology) is a primary means of inferring protein structure and function. At present, comparison of protein families represent...
Mindaugas Margelevicius, Ceslovas Venclovas
BMCBI
2010
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Large-scale prediction of protein-protein interactions from structures
Background: The prediction of protein-protein interactions is an important step toward the elucidation of protein functions and the understanding of the molecular mechanisms insid...
Martial Hue, Michael Riffle, Jean-Philippe Vert, W...