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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299230003321

Autore

Xu Jinbo

Titolo

Protein Homology Detection Through Alignment of Markov Random Fields : Using MRFalign / / by Jinbo Xu, Sheng Wang, Jianzhu Ma

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-14914-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (59 p.)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Computer Science, , 2191-5768

Disciplina

004

005.55

519.5

570285

Soggetti

Bioinformatics

Mathematical statistics

Statistics

Computational Biology/Bioinformatics

Probability and Statistics in Computer Science

Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Method -- Software -- Experiments and Results -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This work covers sequence-based protein homology detection, a fundamental and challenging bioinformatics problem with a variety of real-world applications. The text first surveys a few popular homology detection methods, such as Position-Specific Scoring Matrix (PSSM) and Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based methods, and then describes a novel Markov Random Fields (MRF) based method developed by the authors. MRF-based methods are much more sensitive than HMM- and PSSM-based methods for remote homolog detection and fold recognition, as MRFs can model long-range residue-residue interaction. The text also describes the installation, usage and result interpretation of programs implementing the MRF-based method.