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BMCBI
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
Local conservation scores without a priori assumptions on neutral substitution rates
Background: Comparative genomics aims to detect signals of evolutionary conservation as an indicator of functional constraint. Surprisingly, results of the ENCODE project revealed...
Janis Dingel, Pavol Hanus, Niccolò Leonardi...
BMCBI
2005
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Kalign - an accurate and fast multiple sequence alignment algorithm
Background: The alignment of multiple protein sequences is a fundamental step in the analysis of biological data. It has traditionally been applied to analyzing protein families f...
Timo Lassmann, Erik L. L. Sonnhammer
BMCBI
2010
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14 years 7 months ago
Computing DNA duplex instability profiles efficiently with a two-state model: trends of promoters and binding sites
Background: DNA instability profiles have been used recently for predicting the transcriptional start site and the location of core promoters, and to gain insight into promoter ac...
Miriam R. Kantorovitz, Zoi Rapti, Vladimir Gelev, ...
BMCBI
2010
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CMASA: an accurate algorithm for detecting local protein structural similarity and its application to enzyme catalytic site anno
Background: The rapid development of structural genomics has resulted in many "unknown function" proteins being deposited in Protein Data Bank (PDB), thus, the functiona...
Gong-Hua Li, Jing-Fei Huang
BMCBI
2006
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CpGcluster: a distance-based algorithm for CpG-island detection
Background: Despite their involvement in the regulation of gene expression and their importance as genomic markers for promoter prediction, no objective standard exists for defini...
Michael Hackenberg, Christopher Previti, Pedro Lui...