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  1. Phylogenetic tree reconciliation is the approach of choice for investigating the coevolution of sets of organisms such as hosts and parasites. It consists in a mapping between the parasite tree and the host tr...

    Authors: Beatrice Donati, Christian Baudet, Blerina Sinaimeri, Pierluigi Crescenzi and Marie-France Sagot
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2015 10:3
  2. Metagenomics is the study of genetic materials derived directly from complex microbial samples, instead of from culture. One of the crucial steps in metagenomic analysis, referred to as “binning”, is to separa...

    Authors: Le Van Vinh, Tran Van Lang, Le Thanh Binh and Tran Van Hoai
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2015 10:2
  3. The universal pacemaker (UPM) model extends the classical molecular clock (MC) model, by allowing each gene, in addition to its individual intrinsic rate as in the MC, to accelerate or decelerate according to ...

    Authors: Sagi Snir
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2014 9:26
  4. Biclustering, the discovery of sets of objects with a coherent pattern across a subset of conditions, is a critical task to study a wide-set of biomedical problems, where molecular units or patients are meanin...

    Authors: Rui Henriques and Sara C Madeira
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2014 9:27
  5. Finding new functional fragments in biological sequences is a challenging problem. Methods addressing this problem commonly search for clusters of pattern occurrences that are statistically significant. A meas...

    Authors: Mireille Régnier, Evgenia Furletova, Victor Yakovlev and Mikhail Roytberg
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2014 9:25
  6. Chemical reactions are rearrangements of chemical bonds. Each atom in an educt molecule thus appears again in a specific position of one of the reaction products. This bijection between educt and product atoms...

    Authors: Martin Mann, Feras Nahar, Norah Schnorr, Rolf Backofen, Peter F Stadler and Christoph Flamm
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2014 9:23
  7. Sets of sequence data used in phylogenetic analysis are often plagued by both random noise and systematic biases. Since the commonly used methods of phylogenetic reconstruction are designed to produce trees it...

    Authors: Bernhard Misof, Karen Meusemann, Björn M von Reumont, Patrick Kück, Sonja J Prohaska and Peter F Stadler
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2014 9:22
  8. Large RNA molecules are often composed of multiple functional domains whose spatial arrangement strongly influences their function. Pre-mRNA splicing, for instance, relies on the spatial proximity of the splic...

    Authors: Jing Qin, Markus Fricke, Manja Marz, Peter F Stadler and Rolf Backofen
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2014 9:19
  9. Tandem duplication, in the context of molecular biology, occurs as a result of mutational events in which an original segment of DNA is converted into a sequence of individual copies. More formally, a repetition ...

    Authors: Carl Barton, Costas S Iliopoulos and Solon P Pissis
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2014 9:21
  10. An important problem in systems biology is to model gene regulatory networks which can then be utilized to develop novel therapeutic methods for cancer treatment. Knowledge about which proteins/genes are dysre...

    Authors: Anwoy Kumar Mohanty, Aniruddha Datta and Vijayanagaram Venkatraj
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2014 9:20
  11. RNA-RNA interaction plays an important role in the regulation of gene expression and cell development. In this process, an RNA molecule prohibits the translation of another RNA molecule by establishing stable ...

    Authors: Soheila Montaseri, Fatemeh Zare-Mirakabad and Nasrollah Moghadam-Charkari
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2014 9:17
  12. Chromosome conformation capture experiments have led to the discovery of dense, contiguous, megabase-sized topological domains that are similar across cell types and conserved across species. These domains are...

    Authors: Darya Filippova, Rob Patro, Geet Duggal and Carl Kingsford
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2014 9:14
  13. Progressive methods offer efficient and reasonably good solutions to the multiple sequence alignment problem. However, resulting alignments are biased by guide-trees, especially for relatively distant sequences.

    Authors: Michał Modzelewski and Norbert Dojer
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2014 9:12
  14. The number of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) has increased rapidly in the past couple of years, resulting in the identification of genes associated with different diseases. The next step in translating...

    Authors: Usha Kuppuswamy, Seshan Ananthasubramanian, Yanli Wang, Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan and Madhavi K Ganapathiraju
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2014 9:10
  15. Circular string matching is a problem which naturally arises in many biological contexts. It consists in finding all occurrences of the rotations of a pattern of length m in a text of length n. There exist optima...

    Authors: Carl Barton, Costas S Iliopoulos and Solon P Pissis
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2014 9:9
  16. Identifying ligand-binding sites is a key step to annotate the protein functions and to find applications in drug design. Now, many sequence-based methods adopted various predicted results from other classifie...

    Authors: Chun Fang, Tamotsu Noguchi and Hayato Yamana
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2014 9:7
  17. Change point problems arise in many genomic analyses such as the detection of copy number variations or the detection of transcribed regions. The expanding Next Generation Sequencing technologies now allow to ...

    Authors: Alice Cleynen, Michel Koskas, Emilie Lebarbier, Guillem Rigaill and Stéphane Robin
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2014 9:6
  18. The secondary structure that maximizes the number of non-crossing matchings between complimentary bases of an RNA sequence of length n can be computed in O(n3) time using Nussinov’s dynamic programming algorithm....

    Authors: Balaji Venkatachalam, Dan Gusfield and Yelena Frid
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2014 9:5
  19. Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is an extremely useful tool for molecular and evolutionary biology and there are several programs and algorithms available for this purpose. Although previous studies have com...

    Authors: Fabiano Sviatopolk-Mirsky Pais, Patrícia de Cássia Ruy, Guilherme Oliveira and Roney Santos Coimbra
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2014 9:4
  20. The sheer amounts of biological data that are generated in recent years have driven the development of network analysis tools to facilitate the interpretation and representation of these data. A fundamental ch...

    Authors: Arnon Mazza, Irit Gat-Viks, Hesso Farhan and Roded Sharan
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2014 9:1
  21. Hidden Markov Models power many state‐of‐the‐art tools in the field of protein bioinformatics. While excelling in their tasks, these methods of protein analysis do not convey directly information on medium‐ an...

    Authors: Witold Dyrka, Jean‐Christophe Nebel and Malgorzata Kotulska
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2013 8:31
  22. In this paper, we present a novel approximation algorithm to solve the protein folding problem in HP model. Our algorithm is polynomial in terms of the length of the given HP string. The expected approximation...

    Authors: Abu Sayed Md Sohidull Islam and Mohammad Sohel Rahman
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2013 8:30
  23. Post-Sanger sequencing methods produce tons of data, and there is a generalagreement that the challenge to store and process them must be addressedwith data compression. In this review we first answer the ques...

    Authors: Sebastian Deorowicz and Szymon Grabowski
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2013 8:25
  24. Constructing species trees from multi-copy gene trees remains a challenging problem in phylogenetics. One difficulty is that the underlying genes can be incongruent due to evolutionary processes such as gene d...

    Authors: Ruchi Chaudhary, John Gordon Burleigh and David Fernández-Baca
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2013 8:28
  25. We propose three algorithms for string edit distance with duplications and contractions. These include an efficient general algorithm and two improvements which apply under certain constraints on the cost func...

    Authors: Tamar Pinhas, Shay Zakov, Dekel Tsur and Michal Ziv-Ukelson
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2013 8:27
  26. In Bayesian phylogenetic inference we are interested in distributions over a space of trees. The number of trees in a tree space is an important characteristic of the space and is useful for specifying prior d...

    Authors: Alexandra Gavryushkina, David Welch and Alexei J Drummond
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2013 8:26
  27. Positional weight matrix (PWM) remains the most popular for quantification of transcription factor (TF) binding. PWM supplied with a score threshold defines a set of putative transcription factor binding sites...

    Authors: Ilya E Vorontsov, Ivan V Kulakovskiy and Vsevolod J Makeev
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2013 8:23
  28. Classical approaches to compute the genomic distance are usually limited to genomes with the same content and take into consideration only rearrangements that change the organization of the genome (i.e. positi...

    Authors: Poly H da Silva, Raphael Machado, Simone Dantas and Marília DV Braga
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2013 8:21
  29. Proteins are known to be dynamic in nature, changing from one conformation to another while performing vital cellular tasks. It is important to understand these movements in order to better understand protein ...

    Authors: Natalie E Castellana, Andrey Lushnikov, Piotr Rotkiewicz, Natasha Sefcovic, Pavel A Pevzner, Adam Godzik and Kira Vyatkina
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2013 8:19
  30. A multi-labeled tree, or MUL-tree, is a phylogenetic tree where two or more leaves share a label, e.g., a species name. A MUL-tree can imply multiple conflicting phylogenetic relationships for the same set of ...

    Authors: Akshay Deepak, David Fernández-Baca and Michelle M McMahon
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2013 8:18
  31. We propose a novel graph theoretic method to estimate haplotype population size from genotype data. The method considers only the potential sharing of haplotypes between individuals and is based on transformin...

    Authors: Bjarni V Halldórsson, Dima Blokh and Roded Sharan
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2013 8:17
  32. Gene expression data could likely be a momentous help in the progress of proficient cancer diagnoses and classification platforms. Lately, many researchers analyze gene expression data using diverse computatio...

    Authors: Mohd Saberi Mohamad, Sigeru Omatu, Safaai Deris, Michifumi Yoshioka, Afnizanfaizal Abdullah and Zuwairie Ibrahim
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2013 8:15
  33. The search for distant homologs has become an import issue in genome annotation. A particular difficulty is posed by divergent homologs that have lost recognizable sequence similarity. This same problem also a...

    Authors: Sebastian Will, Michael F Siebauer, Steffen Heyne, Jan Engelhardt, Peter F Stadler, Kristin Reiche and Rolf Backofen
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2013 8:14
  34. We generalize some current approaches for RNA tree alignment, which are traditionally confined to ordered rooted mappings, to also consider unordered unrooted mappings. We define the Homeomorphic Subtree Alignmen...

    Authors: Nimrod Milo, Shay Zakov, Erez Katzenelson, Eitan Bachmat, Yefim Dinitz and Michal Ziv-Ukelson
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2013 8:13
  35. Reconciliation methods compare gene trees and species trees to recover evolutionary events such as duplications, transfers and losses explaining the history and composition of genomes. It is well-known that ge...

    Authors: Thi Hau Nguyen, Vincent Ranwez, Stéphanie Pointet, Anne-Muriel Arigon Chifolleau, Jean-Philippe Doyon and Vincent Berry
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2013 8:12