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BMCBI
2007
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rMotifGen: random motif generator for DNA and protein sequences
Background: Detection of short, subtle conserved motif regions within a set of related DNA or amino acid sequences can lead to discoveries about important regulatory domains such ...
Eric C. Rouchka, C. Timothy Hardin
BMCBI
2006
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Docking protein domains in contact space
Background: Many biological processes involve the physical interaction between protein domains. Understanding these functional associations requires knowledge of the molecular str...
Stefano Lise, Alice Walker-Taylor, David T. Jones
BMCBI
2006
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Incorporating background frequency improves entropy-based residue conservation measures
Background: Several entropy-based methods have been developed for scoring sequence conservation in protein multiple sequence alignments. High scoring amino acid positions may corr...
Kai Wang, Ram Samudrala
BMCBI
2005
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Automated generation of heuristics for biological sequence comparison
Background: Exhaustive methods of sequence alignment are accurate but slow, whereas heuristic approaches run quickly, but their complexity makes them more difficult to implement. ...
Guy St. C. Slater, Ewan Birney
JCB
2007
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MSOAR: A High-Throughput Ortholog Assignment System Based on Genome Rearrangement
The assignment of orthologous genes between a pair of genomes is a fundamental and challenging problem in comparative genomics, since many computational methods for solving variou...
Zheng Fu, Xin Chen, Vladimir Vacic, Peng Nan, Yang...