Computing and visually analyzing mutual information in molecular co-evolution

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Selective pressure in molecular evolution leads to uneven distributions of amino acids and nucleotides. In fact one observes correlations among such constituents due to a large number of biophysical mechanisms (folding properties, el...

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Main Authors: Held Stephanie, Boba Patrick, Schreck Tobias, Bremm Sebastian, Hamacher Kay
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-06-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/11/330