Sciweavers

2736 search results - page 496 / 548
» Bioinformatics
Sort
View
BMCBI
2007
142views more  BMCBI 2007»
14 years 9 months ago
Improving model construction of profile HMMs for remote homology detection through structural alignment
Background: Remote homology detection is a challenging problem in Bioinformatics. Arguably, profile Hidden Markov Models (pHMMs) are one of the most successful approaches in addre...
Juliana S. Bernardes, Alberto M. R. Dávila,...
BMCBI
2008
103views more  BMCBI 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
TOPS++FATCAT: Fast flexible structural alignment using constraints derived from TOPS+ Strings Model
Background: Protein structure analysis and comparison are major challenges in structural bioinformatics. Despite the existence of many tools and algorithms, very few of them have ...
Mallika Veeramalai, Yuzhen Ye, Adam Godzik
BMCBI
2007
233views more  BMCBI 2007»
14 years 9 months ago
160-fold acceleration of the Smith-Waterman algorithm using a field programmable gate array (FPGA)
Background: To infer homology and subsequently gene function, the Smith-Waterman (SW) algorithm is used to find the optimal local alignment between two sequences. When searching s...
Isaac T. S. Li, Warren Shum, Kevin Truong
BMCBI
2008
158views more  BMCBI 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
Discovering gene annotations in biomedical text databases
Currently, most of the discovered biological and biomedical knowledge is available as textual data in scientific papers. And, locating and curating information about a genomic enti...
Ali Cakmak, Gultekin Özsoyoglu
BMCBI
2008
96views more  BMCBI 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
A PATO-compliant zebrafish screening database (MODB): management of morpholino knockdown screen information
Background: The zebrafish is a powerful model vertebrate amenable to high throughput in vivo genetic analyses. Examples include reverse genetic screens using morpholino knockdown,...
Michelle N. Knowlton, Tongbin Li, Yongliang Ren, B...