W. Rocchia, G. NeshichPublished October 05, 2007Genet. Mol. Res. 6 (4): 923-936 (2007) About the authorsW. Rocchia, G. Neshich Corresponding authorG. NeshichE-mail: neshich@cbi.cnptia.embrapa.br ABSTRACT STING and JavaProtein Dossier provide a collection of physical-chemical parameters, describing protein structure, stability, function, and interaction, considered one of the most comprehensive among the available protein databases of similar type. […]
Finding protein-protein interaction patterns by contact map matching
R.C. Melo, C. Ribeiro, C.S. Murray, C.J.M. Veloso, C.H. da Silveira, G. Neshich, W. Meira Jr., R.L. Carceroni, M.M. SantoroPublished October 05, 2007Genet. Mol. Res. 6 (4): 946-963 (2007) About the authorsR.C. Melo, C. Ribeiro, C.S. Murray, C.J.M. Veloso, C.H. da Silveira, G. Neshich, W. Meira Jr., R.L. Carceroni, M.M. Santoro Corresponding authorR.C. MeloE-mail: raquelcm@gmail.com/neshich@cbi.cnptia.embrapa.br […]
BNDb – Biomolecules Nucleus Database:an integrated proteomics and transcriptomicsdatabase
A.C. Faria-Campos, R.R. Gomes, F.S. Moratelli, H. Rausch-Fernandes, G.R. Franco, S.V.A. CamposPublished October 05, 2007Genet. Mol. Res. 6 (4): 937-945 (2007) About the authorsA.C. Faria-Campos, R.R. Gomes, F.S. Moratelli, H. Rausch-Fernandes, G.R. Franco, S.V.A. Campos Corresponding authorA.C. Faria-CamposE-mail: alessa@icb.ufmg.br ABSTRACT Proteomics correspond to the identification and quantitative analysis of proteins expressed in different conditions or […]
Application of latent semantic indexing to evaluate the similarity of sets of sequences without multiple alignments character-by-character
B.R.G.M. Couto, A.P. Ladeira, M.A. SantosPublished October 05, 2007Genet. Mol. Res. 6 (4): 983-999 (2007) About the authorsB.R.G.M. Couto, A.P. Ladeira, M.A. Santos Corresponding authorB.R.G.M. CoutoE-mail: bcouto@acad.unibh.br ABSTRACT Most molecular analyses, including phylogenetic inference, are based on sequence alignments. We present an algorithm that estimates relatedness between biomolecules without the requirement of sequence alignment by […]
A simple genetic algorithm for multiple sequence alignment
C. Gondro, B.P. KinghornPublished October 05, 2007Genet. Mol. Res. 6 (4): 964-982 (2007) About the authorsC. Gondro, B.P. Kinghorn Corresponding authorC. GondroE-mail: cgondro2@une.edu.au ABSTRACT Multiple sequence alignment plays an important role in molecular sequence analysis. An alignment is the arrangement of two (pairwise alignment) or more (multiple alignment) sequences of ‘residues’ (nucleotides or amino acids) […]
Prediction and biochemical characterization ofintrinsic disorder in the structure of proteolysis inducing factor/dermcidin
G. Majczak, S. Lilla*,M. Garay-Malpartida, J. Markovic,F.J. Medrano, G. de Nucci, J.E. BelizárioPublished October 5, 2007Genet. Mol. Res. 6 (4): 1000-1011 (2007) About the authorsG. Majczak, S. Lilla*,M. Garay-Malpartida, J. Markovic,F.J. Medrano, G. de Nucci, J.E. Belizário Corresponding authorJ.E. BelizárioE-mail: jebeliza@usp.br ABSTRACT Proteolysis-inducing factor/dermcidin (PIF/DCD) is a novel human gene, located on chromosome 12, locus […]
Study of genetic divergence among wheat genotypesthrough random amplified polymorphic DNA
A. Iqbal, A.S. Khan, I.A. Khan, F.S. Awan, A. Ahmad, A.A. KhanPublished August 7, 2007Genet. Mol. Res. 6 (3): 476-481 (2007) About the authorsA. Iqbal, A.S. Khan, I.A. Khan, F.S. Awan, A. Ahmad, A.A. Khan Corresponding authorF.S. AwanE-mail: awanfaisal@yahoo.com ABSTRACT The degree of genetic divergence was estimated in seven wheat genotypes, six exotic genotypes and […]
Estimation of genetic parameters and variance components for growth traits in Romosinuano cattle in the Colombian humid tropics
R.M. Sarmiento, J.P. GarciaPublished August 7, 2007Genet. Mol. Res. 6 (3): 482-491 (2007) About the authorsR.M. Sarmiento, J.P. Garcia Corresponding authorR.M. SarmientoE-mail: rodrigomartinez19@yahoo.com ABSTRACT (Co)variance components and genetic parameters were estimated for body weights of a Romosinuano herd located in Sinú Valley, Cordoba, Colombia. Restricted maximum likelihood methods were used with a univariate animal […]
Evolutionary tree reconstruction using structuralexpectation maximization and homotopy
J. Li, M. GuoPublished September 5, 2007Genet. Mol. Res. 6 (3): 522-533 (2007) About the authorsJ. Li, M. Guo Corresponding authoJ. LiE-mail: lijianfu@hit.edu.cn or jianfu_lili@163.com ABSTRACT The evolutionary tree reconstruction algorithm called SEMPHY using structural expectation maximization (SEM) is an efficient approach but has local optimality problem. To improve SEMPHY, a new algorithm named HSEMPHY […]
Prevalence of vitamin D receptor gene polymorphism in a Uruguayan population and its relation to type 1 diabetes mellitus
A. Mimbacas, J. Trujillo, C. Gascue, G. Javiel, H. CardosoPublished September 5, 2007Genet. Mol. Res. 6 (3): 534-542(2007) About the authorsA. Mimbacas, J. Trujillo, C. Gascue, G. Javiel, H. Cardoso Corresponding authoA. MimbacasE-mail: abmg@iibce.edu.uy ABSTRACT Vitamin D has important immuno-modulatory properties and it influences insulin secretion. It acts through a vitamin D receptor (VDR), for […]