Background: In the adaptive immune system, variable regions of immunoglobulin (IG) are encoded by random recombination of variable (V), diversity (D), and joining (J) gene segment...
Xiaojing Wang, Di Wu, SiYuan Zheng, Jing Sun, Lin ...
Background: Searching for similarities in protein and DNA databases has become a routine procedure in Molecular Biology. The Smith-Waterman algorithm has been available for more t...
Background: Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) are the most abundant form of genomic variation and can cause phenotypic differences between individuals, including diseases. Ba...
Vinayak Kulkarni, Mounir Errami, Robert Barber, Ha...
Background: The unsupervised discovery of structures (i.e. clusterings) underlying data is a central issue in several branches of bioinformatics. Methods based on the concept of s...
Background: Data clustering is a powerful technique for identifying data with similar characteristics, such as genes with similar expression patterns. However, not all implementat...