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BMCBI
2010
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A novel scoring function for discriminating hyperthermophilic and mesophilic proteins with application to predicting relative th
Background: The ability to design thermostable proteins is theoretically important and practically useful. Robust and accurate algorithms, however, remain elusive. One critical pr...
Yunqi Li, C. Russell Middaugh, Jianwen Fang
BMCBI
2010
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Revealing and avoiding bias in semantic similarity scores for protein pairs
Background: Semantic similarity scores for protein pairs are widely applied in functional genomic researches for finding functional clusters of proteins, predicting protein functi...
Jing Wang 0004, Xianxiao Zhou, Jing Zhu, Chenggui ...
BMCBI
2010
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An automatic method for identifying surface proteins in bacteria: SLEP
Background: Bacterial infections represent a global health challenge. The identification of novel antibacterial targets for both therapy and vaccination is needed on a constant ba...
Emanuela Giombini, Massimiliano Orsini, Danilo Car...
BMCBI
2010
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Properties and identification of antibiotic drug targets
Background: We analysed 48 non-redundant antibiotic target proteins from all bacteria, 22 antibiotic target proteins from E. coli only and 4243 non-drug targets from E. coli to id...
Tala Bakheet, Andrew J. Doig
BMCBI
2010
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Predictors of natively unfolded proteins: unanimous consensus score to detect a twilight zone between order and disorder in gene
Background: Natively unfolded proteins lack a well defined three dimensional structure but have important biological functions, suggesting a re-assignment of the structure-functio...
Antonio Deiana, Andrea Giansanti
BMCBI
2010
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Structural alphabets derived from attractors in conformational space
Background: The hierarchical and partially redundant nature of protein structures justifies the definition of frequently occurring conformations of short fragments as `states'...
Alessandro Pandini, Arianna Fornili, Jens Kleinjun...
BMCBI
2010
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Protein binding hot spots and the residue-residue pairing preference: a water exclusion perspective
Background: A protein binding hot spot is a small cluster of residues tightly packed at the center of the interface between two interacting proteins. Though a hot spot constitutes...
Qian Liu, Jinyan Li
BMCBI
2010
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Identifying differentially regulated subnetworks from phosphoproteomic data
Background: Various high throughput methods are available for detecting regulations at the level of transcription, translation or posttranslation (e.g. phosphorylation). Integrati...
Martin Klammer, Klaus Godl, Andreas Tebbe, Christo...
BMCBI
2010
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Bayesian statistical modelling of human protein interaction network incorporating protein disorder information
Background: We present a statistical method of analysis of biological networks based on the exponential random graph model, namely p2-model, as opposed to previous descriptive app...
Svetlana Bulashevska, Alla Bulashevska, Roland Eil...
BIOINFORMATICS
2008
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Message-passing algorithms for the prediction of protein domain interactions from protein-protein interaction data
Motivation: Cellular processes often hinge upon specific interactions among proteins, and knowledge of these processes at a system level constitutes a major goal of proteomics. In...
Mudassar Iqbal, Alex Alves Freitas, Colin G. Johns...