Finding weak similarities between proteins by sequence profile comparison
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Finding weak similarities between proteins by sequence profile comparison.
To improve the recognition of weak similarities between proteins a method of aligning two sequence profiles is proposed. It is shown that exploring the sequence space in the vicinity of the sequence with unknown properties significantly improves the performance of sequence alignment methods. Consistent with the previous observations the recognition sensitivity and alignment accuracy obtained by...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nucleic Acids Research
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1362-4962
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg154