Beyond the E-Value: Stratified Statistics for Protein Domain Prediction.

E-values have been the dominant statistic for protein sequence analysis for the past two decades: from identifying statistically significant local sequence alignments to evaluating matches to hidden Markov models describing protein domain families. Here we formally show that for "stratified&quo...

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Main Authors: Alejandro Ochoa, John D Storey, Manuel Llinás, Mona Singh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-11-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4648515?pdf=render