Background: While the pairwise alignments produced by sequence similarity searches are a powerful tool for identifying homologous proteins - proteins that share a common ancestor ...
Michael L. Sierk, Michael E. Smoot, Ellen J. Bass,...
Background: Methylation of CpG islands within the DNA promoter regions is one mechanism that leads to aberrant gene expression in cancer. In particular, the abnormal methylation o...
Leandro A. Loss, Anguraj Sadanandam, Steffen Durin...
Background: To develop protein therapeutics from exogenous sources, it is necessary to mitigate the risks of eliciting an anti-biotherapeutic immune response. A key aspect of the ...
Andrew S. Parker, Wei Zheng, Karl E. Griswold, Chr...
Background: Because a priori knowledge about function of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) can provide useful information to pharmaceutical research, the determination of their ...
Background: An important problem in genomics is the automatic inference of groups of homologous proteins from pairwise sequence similarities. Several approaches have been proposed...