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BMCBI
2010
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APIS: accurate prediction of hot spots in protein interfaces by combining protrusion index with solvent accessibility
Background: It is well known that most of the binding free energy of protein interaction is contributed by a few key hot spot residues. These residues are crucial for understandin...
Jun-Feng Xia, Xing-Ming Zhao, Jiangning Song, De-S...
BMCBI
2010
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Reduced representation of protein structure: implications on efficiency and scope of detection of structural similarity
Background: Computational comparison of two protein structures is the starting point of many methods that build on existing knowledge, such as structure modeling (including modeli...
Zong Hong Zhang, Hwee Kuan Lee, Ivana Mihalek
BMCBI
2010
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A novel approach to simulate gene-environment interactions in complex diseases
Background: Complex diseases are multifactorial traits caused by both genetic and environmental factors. They represent the major part of human diseases and include those with lar...
Roberto Amato, Michele Pinelli, Daniel D'Andrea, G...
BMCBI
2010
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Improving pairwise sequence alignment accuracy using near-optimal protein sequence alignments
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,...
BMCBI
2010
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Bias correction and Bayesian analysis of aggregate counts in SAGE libraries
Background: Tag-based techniques, such as SAGE, are commonly used to sample the mRNA pool of an organism's transcriptome. Incomplete digestion during the tag formation proces...
Russell L. Zaretzki, Michael A. Gilchrist, William...