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BMCBI
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
A discriminative method for protein remote homology detection and fold recognition combining Top-n-grams and latent semantic ana
Background: Protein remote homology detection and fold recognition are central problems in bioinformatics. Currently, discriminative methods based on support vector machine (SVM) ...
Bin Liu, Xiaolong Wang, Lei Lin, Qiwen Dong, Xuan ...
RECOMB
2006
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Inferring Positional Homologs with Common Intervals of Sequences
Inferring orthologous and paralogous genes is an important problem in whole genomes comparisons, both for functional or evolutionary studies. In this paper, we introduce a new appr...
Guillaume Blin, Annie Chateau, Cedric Chauve, Yann...
BMCBI
2007
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14 years 9 months ago
XSTREAM: A practical algorithm for identification and architecture modeling of tandem repeats in protein sequences
Background: Biological sequence repeats arranged in tandem patterns are widespread in DNA and proteins. While many software tools have been designed to detect DNA tandem repeats (...
Aaron M. Newman, James B. Cooper
LSSC
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
An Ant-Based Model for Multiple Sequence Alignment
Abstract. Multiple sequence alignment is a key process in today’s biology, and finding a relevant alignment of several sequences is much more challenging than just optimizing so...
Frédéric Guinand, Yoann Pigné
BMCBI
2006
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Fast index based algorithms and software for matching position specific scoring matrices
Background: In biological sequence analysis, position specific scoring matrices (PSSMs) are widely used to represent sequence motifs in nucleotide as well as amino acid sequences....
Michael Beckstette, Robert Homann, Robert Giegeric...