Background: The most common substitution matrices currently used (BLOSUM and PAM) are based on protein sequences with average amino acid distributions, thus they do not represent ...
Background: Metalloproteins are proteins capable of binding one or more metal ions, which may be required for their biological function, for regulation of their activities or for ...
Andrea Passerini, Claudia Andreini, Sauro Menchett...
Background: Algorithms that locate evolutionarily conserved sequences have become powerful tools for finding functional DNA elements, including transcription factor binding sites;...
A recent paper [8] presented methods for several steps along the road to synthesis of realistic traffic matrices. Such synthesis is needed because traffic matrices are a crucial i...
The content of an image can be summarized by a set of homogeneous regions in an appropriate feature space. When exact shape is not important, the regions can be represented by sim...