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BMCBI
2008
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Dinucleotide controlled null models for comparative RNA gene prediction
Background: Comparative prediction of RNA structures can be used to identify functional noncoding RNAs in genomic screens. It was shown recently by Babak et al. [BMC Bioinformatic...
Tanja Gesell, Stefan Washietl
BMCBI
2006
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An accurate and interpretable model for siRNA efficacy prediction
Background: The use of exogenous small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) for gene silencing has quickly become a widespread molecular tool providing a powerful means for gene functional s...
Jean-Philippe Vert, Nicolas Foveau, Christian Laja...
BMCBI
2005
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Automated methods of predicting the function of biological sequences using GO and BLAST
Background: With the exponential increase in genomic sequence data there is a need to develop automated approaches to deducing the biological functions of novel sequences with hig...
Craig E. Jones, Ute Baumann, Alfred L. Brown
BMCBI
2010
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Automatic prediction of catalytic residues by modeling residue structural neighborhood
Background: Prediction of catalytic residues is a major step in characterizing the function of enzymes. In its simpler formulation, the problem can be cast into a binary classific...
Elisa Cilia, Andrea Passerini
BMCBI
2010
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A knowledge-guided strategy for improving the accuracy of scoring functions in binding affinity prediction
Background: Current scoring functions are not very successful in protein-ligand binding affinity prediction albeit their popularity in structure-based drug designs. Here, we propo...
Tiejun Cheng, Zhihai Liu, Renxiao Wang