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Motif-based protein ranking by network propagation
Author(s) -
Rui Kuang,
Jason Weston,
William Stafford Noble,
Christina Leslie
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/bti608
Subject(s) - pairwise comparison , motif (music) , structural motif , computer science , computational biology , sequence motif , homology (biology) , conserved sequence , sequence alignment , artificial intelligence , biology , pattern recognition (psychology) , genetics , peptide sequence , gene , physics , biochemistry , acoustics
Sequence similarity often suggests evolutionary relationships between protein sequences that can be important for inferring similarity of structure or function. The most widely-used pairwise sequence comparison algorithms for homology detection, such as BLAST and PSI-BLAST, often fail to detect less conserved remotely-related targets.

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