Fitting hidden Markov models of protein domains to a target species: application to <it>Plasmodium falciparum</it>

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) are a powerful tool for protein domain identification. The Pfam database notably provides a large collection of HMMs which are widely used for the annotation of proteins in new sequenced organisms. In Pfam...

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Main Authors: Terrapon Nicolas, Gascuel Olivier, Maréchal Éric, Bréhélin Laurent
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-05-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/13/67