Background: Amino acids responsible for structure, core function or specificity may be inferred from multiple protein sequence alignments where a limited set of residue types are ...
Jonathan R. Manning, Emily R. Jefferson, Geoffrey ...
Background: Expressed sequence tag (EST) collections are composed of a high number of single-pass, redundant, partial sequences, which need to be processed, clustered, and annotat...
Background: Solexa/Illumina short-read ultra-high throughput DNA sequencing technology produces millions of short tags (up to 36 bases) by parallel sequencing-by-synthesis of DNA ...
Jacques Rougemont, Arnaud Amzallag, Christian Isel...
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...
Background: Transcription factors (TFs) are core functional proteins which play important roles in gene expression control, and they are key factors for gene regulation network co...