Sequence—evolution—function: computational approaches in comparative genomics

E Koonin, MY Galperin - 2002 - books.google.com
Sequence-Evolution-Function is an introduction to the computational approaches that play a
critical role in the emerging new branch of biology known as functional genomics. The book …

Protein secondary structure prediction

W Pirovano, J Heringa - Data Mining Techniques for the Life Sciences, 2010 - Springer
While the prediction of a native protein structure from sequence continues to remain a
challenging problem, over the past decades computational methods have become quite …

Protein secondary structure prediction based on position-specific scoring matrices

DT Jones - Journal of molecular biology, 1999 - Elsevier
A two-stage neural network has been used to predict protein secondary structure based on
the position specific scoring matrices generated by PSI-BLAST. Despite the simplicity and …

Regulation of chromatin structure by site-specific histone H3 methyltransferases

S Rea, F Eisenhaber, D O'Carroll, BD Strahl, ZW Sun… - Nature, 2000 - nature.com
The organization of chromatin into higher-order structures influences chromosome function
and epigenetic gene regulation. Higher-order chromatin has been proposed to be nucleated …

VEGA–an open platform to develop chemo-bio-informatics applications, using plug-in architecture and script programming

A Pedretti, L Villa, G Vistoli - Journal of computer-aided molecular design, 2004 - Springer
In this paper we present the expandability and flexibility features of the VEGA program
(downloadable free of charge at http://www. ddl. unimi. it), for the development of custom …

Evaluation and improvement of multiple sequence methods for protein secondary structure prediction

JA Cuff, GJ Barton - Proteins: Structure, Function, and …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
A new dataset of 396 protein domains is developed and used to evaluate the performance of
the protein secondary structure prediction algorithms DSC, PHD, NNSSP, and PREDATOR …

JPred: a consensus secondary structure prediction server.

JA Cuff, ME Clamp, AS Siddiqui… - Bioinformatics (Oxford …, 1998 - academic.oup.com
An interactive protein secondary structure prediction Internet server is presented. The server
allows a single sequence or multiple alignment to be submitted, and returns predictions from …

PRALINE: a multiple sequence alignment toolbox that integrates homology-extended and secondary structure information

VA Simossis, J Heringa - Nucleic acids research, 2005 - academic.oup.com
PRofile ALIgNEment (PRALINE) is a fully customizable multiple sequence alignment
application. In addition to a number of available alignment strategies, PRALINE can …

Molecular signature of hypersaline adaptation: insights from genome and proteome composition of halophilic prokaryotes

S Paul, SK Bag, S Das, ET Harvill, C Dutta - Genome biology, 2008 - Springer
Background Halophilic prokaryotes are adapted to thrive in extreme conditions of salinity.
Identification and analysis of distinct macromolecular characteristics of halophiles provide …

Predicting drug-target interaction networks based on functional groups and biological features

Z He, J Zhang, XH Shi, LL Hu, X Kong, YD Cai… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background Study of drug-target interaction networks is an important topic for drug
development. It is both time-consuming and costly to determine compound-protein …