Sciweavers

2877 search results - page 531 / 576
» Computational Biology
Sort
View
BMCBI
2006
113views more  BMCBI 2006»
14 years 9 months ago
GibbsST: a Gibbs sampling method for motif discovery with enhanced resistance to local optima
Background: Computational discovery of transcription factor binding sites (TFBS) is a challenging but important problem of bioinformatics. In this study, improvement of a Gibbs sa...
Kazuhito Shida
BMCBI
2006
178views more  BMCBI 2006»
14 years 9 months ago
MannDB - A microbial database of automated protein sequence analyses and evidence integration for protein characterization
Background: MannDB was created to meet a need for rapid, comprehensive automated protein sequence analyses to support selection of proteins suitable as targets for driving the dev...
Carol L. Ecale Zhou, Marisa Lam, Jason Smith, Adam...
BMCBI
2007
136views more  BMCBI 2007»
14 years 9 months ago
Comparison of protein structures by growing neighborhood alignments
Background: Design of protein structure comparison algorithm is an important research issue, having far reaching implications. In this article, we describe a protein structure com...
Sourangshu Bhattacharya, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya, ...
BMCBI
2007
247views more  BMCBI 2007»
14 years 9 months ago
A survey of DNA motif finding algorithms
Background: Unraveling the mechanisms that regulate gene expression is a major challenge in biology. An important task in this challenge is to identify regulatory elements, especi...
Modan K. Das, Ho-Kwok Dai
BMCBI
2007
128views more  BMCBI 2007»
14 years 9 months ago
A robust and efficient algorithm for the shape description of protein structures and its application in predicting ligand bindin
Background: An accurate description of protein shape derived from protein structure is necessary to establish an understanding of protein-ligand interactions, which in turn will l...
Lei Xie, Philip E. Bourne