Hidden Markov model speed heuristic and iterative HMM search procedure

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Profile hidden Markov models (profile-HMMs) are sensitive tools for remote protein homology detection, but the main scoring algorithms, Viterbi or Forward, require considerable time to search large sequence databases.</p> <p...

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Main Authors: Johnson L Steven, Eddy Sean R, Portugaly Elon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-08-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/11/431