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BMCBI
2007
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Local comparison of protein structures highlights cases of convergent evolution in analogous functional sites
Background: We performed an exhaustive search for local structural similarities in an ensemble of non-redundant protein functional sites. With the purpose of finding new examples ...
Gabriele Ausiello, Daniele Peluso, Allegra Via, Ma...
BMCBI
2010
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SNP-RFLPing 2: an updated and integrated PCR-RFLP tool for SNP genotyping
Background: PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) assay is a cost-effective method for SNP genotyping and mutation detection, but the manual mining for restriction e...
Hsueh-Wei Chang, Yu-Huei Cheng, Li-Yeh Chuang, Che...
BMCBI
2010
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Analysis of X-ray Structures of Matrix Metalloproteinases via Chaotic Map Clustering
Background: Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are well-known biological targets implicated in tumour progression, homeostatic regulation, innate immunity, impaired delivery of pro-...
Ilenia Giangreco, Orazio Nicolotti, Angelo Carotti...
BMCBI
2010
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LAITOR - Literature Assistant for Identification of Terms co-Occurrences and Relationships
Background: Biological knowledge is represented in scientific literature that often describes the function of genes/ proteins (bioentities) in terms of their interactions (biointe...
Adriano Barbosa-Silva, Theodoros G. Soldatos, Ivan...
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BMCBI
2007
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TAP score: torsion angle propensity normalization applied to local protein structure evaluation
Background: Experimentally determined protein structures may contain errors and require validation. Conformational criteria based on the Ramachandran plot are mainly used to disti...
Silvio C. E. Tosatto, Roberto Battistutta