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BMCBI
2010
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14 years 12 months ago
FRASS: the web-server for RNA structural comparison
Background: The impressive increase of novel RNA structures, during the past few years, demands automated methods for structure comparison. While many algorithms handle only small...
Svetlana Kirillova, Silvio C. E. Tosatto, Oliviero...
BMCBI
2008
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A novel series of compositionally biased substitution matrices for comparing Plasmodium proteins
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 ...
Kevin Brick, Elisabetta Pizzi
BMCBI
2007
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14 years 12 months ago
A machine learning approach for the identification of odorant binding proteins from sequence-derived properties
Background: Odorant binding proteins (OBPs) are believed to shuttle odorants from the environment to the underlying odorant receptors, for which they could potentially serve as od...
Ganesan Pugalenthi, E. Ke Tang, Ponnuthurai N. Sug...
BMCBI
2005
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14 years 11 months ago
Query3d: a new method for high-throughput analysis of functional residues in protein structures
Background: The identification of local similarities between two protein structures can provide clues of a common function. Many different methods exist for searching for similar ...
Gabriele Ausiello, Allegra Via, Manuela Helmer-Cit...
MOBIDE
2003
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Consistency mechanisms for a distributed lookup service supporting mobile applications
This paper presents a general-purpose distributed lookup service, denoted Passive Distributed Indexing (PDI). PDI stores entries in form of (key, value) pairs in index caches loca...
Christoph Lindemann, Oliver P. Waldhorst