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BMCBI
2005
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Statistical distributions of optimal global alignment scores of random protein sequences
Background: The inference of homology from statistically significant sequence similarity is a central issue in sequence alignments. So far the statistical distribution function un...
Hongxia Pang, Jiaowei Tang, Su-Shing Chen, Shiheng...
BMCBI
2008
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Defining functional distances over Gene Ontology
Background: A fundamental problem when trying to define the functional relationships between proteins is the difficulty in quantifying functional similarities, even when well-stru...
Angela del Pozo, Florencio Pazos, Alfonso Valencia
NAR
2007
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COMPASS server for remote homology inference
COMPASS is a method for homology detection and local alignment construction based on the comparison of multiple sequence alignments (MSAs). The method derives numerical profiles f...
Ruslan Sadreyev, Ming Tang, Bong-Hyun Kim, Nick V....
BMCBI
2007
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Blast sampling for structural and functional analyses
Background: The post-genomic era is characterised by a torrent of biological information flooding the public databases. As a direct consequence, similarity searches starting with ...
Anne Friedrich, Raymond Ripp, Nicolas Garnier, Emm...
BMCBI
2006
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MitoRes: a resource of nuclear-encoded mitochondrial genes and their products in Metazoa
Background: Mitochondria are sub-cellular organelles that have a central role in energy production and in other metabolic pathways of all eukaryotic respiring cells. In the last f...
Domenico Catalano, Flavio Licciulli, Antonio Turi,...