Background: The identification of unique proteins at different taxonomic levels has both scientific and practical value. Strain-, species- and genus-specific proteins can provide ...
Raja Mazumder, Darren A. Natale, Sudhir Murthy, Ra...
Background: Profile hidden Markov model (HMM) techniques are among the most powerful methods for protein homology detection. Yet, the critical features for successful modelling ar...
Background: Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) are short and error-prone DNA sequences generated from the 5' and 3' ends of randomly selected cDNA clones. They provide an im...
Nunzio D'Agostino, Mario Aversano, Maria Luisa Chi...
Background: Information obtained by DNA microarray technology gives a rough snapshot of the transcriptome state, i.e., the expression level of all the genes expressed in a cell po...
The quality of data is a critical factor for all kinds of decision-making and transaction processing. While there has been a lot of research on data quality in the past two decades...