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2010
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A fast indexing approach for protein structure comparison
Background: Protein structure comparison is a fundamental task in structural biology. While the number of known protein structures has grown rapidly over the last decade, searchin...
Lei Zhang, James Bailey, Arun Siddharth Konagurthu...
BMCBI
2007
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Comparing sequences without using alignments: application to HIV/SIV subtyping
Background: In general, the construction of trees is based on sequence alignments. This procedure, however, leads to loss of informationwhen parts of sequence alignments (for inst...
Gilles Didier, Laurent Debomy, Maude Pupin, Ming Z...
BMCBI
2007
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Towards a comprehensive structural coverage of completed genomes: a structural genomics viewpoint
Background: Structural genomics initiatives were established with the aim of solving protein structures on a large-scale. For many initiatives, such as the Protein Structure Initi...
Russell L. Marsden, Tony A. Lewis, Christine A. Or...
BMCBI
2007
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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
2010
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Conserved residue clusters at protein-protein interfaces and their use in binding site identification
Background: Biological evolution conserves protein residues that are important for structure and function. Both protein stability and function often require a certain degree of st...
Mainak Guharoy, Pinak Chakrabarti