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BMCBI
2008
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Pairwise covariance adds little to secondary structure prediction but improves the prediction of non-canonical local structure
Background: Amino acid sequence probability distributions, or profiles, have been used successfully to predict secondary structure and local structure in proteins. Profile models ...
Christopher Bystroff, Bobbie-Jo M. Webb-Robertson
BMCBI
2005
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A multistep bioinformatic approach detects putative regulatory elements in gene promoters
Background: Searching for approximate patterns in large promoter sequences frequently produces an exceedingly high numbers of results. Our aim was to exploit biological knowledge ...
Stefania Bortoluzzi, Alessandro Coppe, Andrea Biso...
BMCBI
2005
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PSI-BLAST-ISS: an intermediate sequence search tool for estimation of the position-specific alignment reliability
Background: Protein sequence alignments have become indispensable for virtually any evolutionary, structural or functional study involving proteins. Modern sequence search and com...
Mindaugas Margelevicius, Ceslovas Venclovas
BMCBI
2006
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BIPAD: A web server for modeling bipartite sequence elements
Background: Many dimeric protein complexes bind cooperatively to families of bipartite nucleic acid sequence elements, which consist of pairs of conserved half-site sequences sepa...
Chengpeng Bi, Peter K. Rogan
BMCBI
2008
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Bioinformatics in Italy: BITS2007, the fourth annual meeting of the Italian Society of Bioinformatics
spectives. A total of 149 abstracts were accepted and presented in the poster session and 31 of them were selected for oral presentation. At the opening of the meeting, Roderic Gui...
Graziano Pesole, Manuela Helmer-Citterich