IJBRA
2007
13 years 5 months ago
2007
A function of a protein is dependent on its structure; therefore, predicting a protein structure from an amino acid sequence is an active area of research. Optimally predicting a ...
JGAA
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
In this paper, we propose a new layout algorithm that draws the secondary structure of a Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) automatically according to some of the biologists' aesthetic c...
JCB
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
Following Zuker (1986), a saturated secondary structure for a given RNA sequence is a secondary structure such that no base pair can be added without violating the definition of s...
BMCBI
2007
13 years 5 months ago
2007
Background: Mitochondrial tRNAs have been the subject of study for structural biologists interested in their secondary structure characteristics, evolutionary biologists have rese...
BMCBI
2007
13 years 5 months ago
2007
Background: Structural properties of proteins such as secondary structure and solvent accessibility contribute to three-dimensional structure prediction, not only in the ab initio...
CLEIEJ
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
Pseudoknots are a frequent RNA structure that assumes essential roles for varied biocatalyst cell's functions. One of the most challenging fields in bioinformatics is the pre...
BMCBI
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
Background: Circular Dichroism (CD) spectroscopy is a widely used method for studying protein structures in solution. Modern synchrotron radiation CD (SRCD) instruments have consi...
BMCBI
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
Background: Protein sequence alignment is one of the basic tools in bioinformatics. Correct alignments are required for a range of tasks including the derivation of phylogenetic t...
BMCBI
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
Background: In sequence analysis the multiple alignment builds the fundament of all proceeding analyses. Errors in an alignment could strongly influence all succeeding analyses an...
BMCBI
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
Background: The accuracy of protein secondary structure prediction has steadily improved over the past 30 years. Now many secondary structure prediction methods routinely achieve ...