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BMCBI
2010
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Apples and oranges: avoiding different priors in Bayesian DNA sequence analysis
Background: One of the challenges of bioinformatics remains the recognition of short signal sequences in genomic DNA such as donor or acceptor splice sites, splicing enhancers or ...
Jens Keilwagen, Jan Grau, Stefan Posch, Ivo Grosse
RECOMB
2003
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Designing seeds for similarity search in genomic DNA
Large-scale comparison of genomic DNA is of fundamental importance in annotating functional elements of genomes. To perform large comparisons efficiently, BLAST (Methods: Companio...
Jeremy Buhler, Uri Keich, Yanni Sun
BMCBI
2007
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Generating confidence intervals on biological networks
Background: In the analysis of networks we frequently require the statistical significance of some network statistic, such as measures of similarity for the properties of interact...
Thomas Thorne, Michael P. H. Stumpf
ICASSP
2007
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Evolutionary Sequence Modeling for Discovery of Peptide Hormones
There are currently a large number of ‘‘orphan’’ G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) whose endogenous ligands (peptide hormones) are unknown. Identification of these pepti...
M. Kemal Sönmez, Lawrence Toll, Nina Zaveri
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,...