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BMCBI
2006
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MitoRes: a resource of nuclear-encoded mitochondrial genes and their products in Metazoa
Background: Mitochondria are sub-cellular organelles that have a central role in energy production and in other metabolic pathways of all eukaryotic respiring cells. In the last f...
Domenico Catalano, Flavio Licciulli, Antonio Turi,...
LION
2009
Springer
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Substitution Matrices and Mutual Information Approaches to Modeling Evolution
Abstract. Substitution matrices are at the heart of Bioinformatics: sequence alignment, database search, phylogenetic inference, protein family classication are based on Blosum, P...
Stephan Kitchovitch, Yuedong Song, Richard C. van ...
BMCBI
2005
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Improved profile HMM performance by assessment of critical algorithmic features in SAM and HMMER
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...
Markus Wistrand, Erik L. L. Sonnhammer
BMCBI
2011
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Accurate statistics for local sequence alignment with position-dependent scoring by rare-event sampling
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...
ALMOB
2008
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Syntenator: Multiple gene order alignments with a gene-specific scoring function
Background: Identification of homologous regions or conserved syntenies across genomes is one crucial step in comparative genomics. This task is usually performed by genome alignm...
Christian Rödelsperger, Christoph Dieterich