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BMCBI
2004
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Improvement of alignment accuracy utilizing sequentially conserved motifs
Background: Multiple sequence alignment algorithms are very important tools in molecular biology today. Accurate alignment of proteins is central to several areas such as homology...
Saikat Chakrabarti, Nitin Bhardwaj, Prem A. Anand,...
BMCBI
2008
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A tree-based conservation scoring method for short linear motifs in multiple alignments of protein sequences
Background: The structure of many eukaryotic cell regulatory proteins is highly modular. They are assembled from globular domains, segments of natively disordered polypeptides and...
Claudia Chica, Alberto Labarga, Cathryn M. Gould, ...
BMCBI
2004
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A functional hierarchical organization of the protein sequence space
Background: It is a major challenge of computational biology to provide a comprehensive functional classification of all known proteins. Most existing methods seek recurrent patte...
Noam Kaplan, Moriah Friedlich, Menachem Fromer, Mi...
BMCBI
2006
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Domain-based small molecule binding site annotation
Background: Accurate small molecule binding site information for a protein can facilitate studies in drug docking, drug discovery and function prediction, but small molecule bindi...
Kevin A. Snyder, Howard J. Feldman, Michel Dumonti...
BMCBI
2008
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The contrasting properties of conservation and correlated phylogeny in protein functional residue prediction
Background: Amino acids responsible for structure, core function or specificity may be inferred from multiple protein sequence alignments where a limited set of residue types are ...
Jonathan R. Manning, Emily R. Jefferson, Geoffrey ...