Background: The binding of peptide fragments of antigens to class II MHC is a crucial step in initiating a helper T cell immune response. The identification of such peptide epitop...
Background: The study of protein-small molecule interactions is vital for understanding protein function and for practical applications in drug discovery. To benefit from the rapi...
Ratna R. Thangudu, Manoj Tyagi, Benjamin A. Shoema...
Background: Advances in automated DNA sequencing technology have accelerated the generation of metagenomic DNA sequences, especially environmental ribosomal RNA gene (rDNA) sequen...
Background: With the rapidly falling cost and availability of high throughput sequencing and microarray technologies, the bottleneck for effectively using genomic analysis in the ...
David A. Nix, Tonya L. Di Sera, Brian K. Dalley, B...
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 ...