Background: The question of how a circle or line segment becomes covered when random arcs are marked off has arisen repeatedly in bioinformatics. The number of uncovered gaps is o...
John Moriarty, Julian R. Marchesi, Anthony Metcalf...
Background: Sequence motifs representing transcription factor binding sites (TFBS) are commonly encoded as position frequency matrices (PFM) or degenerate consensus sequences (CS)...
Background: Modern omics research involves the application of high-throughput technologies that generate vast volumes of data. These data need to be pre-processed, analyzed and in...
Mark W. E. J. Fiers, Ate van der Burgt, Erwin Date...
Background: Structural alignment is an important step in protein comparison. Well-established methods exist for solving this problem under the assumption that the structures under...
Roberto Mosca, Barbara Brannetti, Thomas R. Schnei...
Background: Molecular typing methods are commonly used to study genetic relationships among bacterial isolates. Many of these methods have become standardized and produce portable...
Josephine F. Reyes, Andrew R. Francis, Mark M. Tan...