Background: Molecular database search tools need statistical models to assess the significance for the resulting hits. In the classical approach one asks the question how probable...
Stefan Wolfsheimer, Inke Herms, Sven Rahmann, Alex...
DNA sequence alignment is a critical step in identifying homology between organisms. The most widely used alignment program, ClustalW, is known to suffer from the local minima pro...
Perry Ridge, Hyrum Carroll, Dan Sneddon, Mark J. C...
Background: For many types of analyses, data about gene structure and locations of non-coding regions of genes are required. Although a vast amount of genomic sequence data is ava...
Oliver Keller, Florian Odronitz, Mario Stanke, Mar...
Background: We present a novel method to encode ambiguously aligned regions in fixed multiple sequence alignments by ‘Pairwise Identity and Cost Scores Ordination’ (PICS-Ord)....
Robert K. Luecking, Brendan P. Hodkinson, Alexandr...
We have recently demonstrated (La et al, Proteins, 58:2005) that sequence fragments approximating the overall familial phylogeny, called phylogenetic motifs (PMs), represent a pro...