Background: Translation initiation site (TIS) identification is an important aspect of the gene annotation process, requisite for the accurate delineation of protein sequences fro...
Background: The presence of gaps in an alignment of nucleotide or protein sequences is often an inconvenience for bioinformatical studies. In phylogenetic and other analyses, for ...
Rodrigo Gouveia-Oliveira, Peter Wad Sackett, Ander...
Background: Protein domains are the structural and functional units of proteins. The ability to parse proteins into different domains is important for effective classification, un...
Chilamakuri C. S. Reddy, Khader Shameer, Bernard O...
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...