Introduction to Protein Sequence Analysis

Introduction to Sequence Analysis

The basis of all sequence comparison is predicated on evolutionary relationships, or homology. The more similar are two protein (or nucleic acid) sequences then the greater the probability that they are descended from a common ancestor, and hence more likely to have a similar function. One of the first steps in the characterization of a 'new' protein is searching existing databases to find othe...

1 Introduction to Sequence Alignment

The natural occurrence of strings in our daily lives motivates several applications where discovering the similarities have great significance and utility. The definition of a string is different based on the field of study and context of the experiment we are conducting. There are many prevalent problems that can be solved by discovering underlying structure in strings, both continuous and dis...

Introduction. Sequence analysis of patient-provider interaction.

In doctor-patient communication research a few mainstreams can be distinguished: a robust quantitative line of research, in which all patient and/or physician utterances are classified in a basically neutral coding system, usually consisting of a comprehensive set of mutually exclusive categories like RIAS (Roter, 1995) and VR-MICS (Del Piccolo et al., 1999; 2002), versus some more qualitative ...

An Introduction to Speech Sciences (Acoustic Analysis of Speech)

Speech sciences deal with the acoustical characteristics of speech by means of sophisticated soft wares as well as hard wares. Although, a speech science is a well known science in the developed countries, especially the western societies, however, it has been remained almost unknown in Iran, though, in recent years a group of scholars have been involved in this branch of science. The applicati...

Introduction to Protein