Optimizing amino acid substitution matrices with a local alignment kernel

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Detecting remote homologies by direct comparison of protein sequences remains a challenging task. We had previously developed a similarity score between sequences, called a <it>local alignment kernel</it>, that exhibits g...

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Main Authors: Vert Jean-Philippe, Saigo Hiroto, Akutsu Tatsuya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2006-05-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/7/246

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