Identification of homologs in insignificant blast hits by exploiting extrinsic gene properties

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Homology is a key concept in both evolutionary biology and genomics. Detection of homology is crucial in fields like the functional annotation of protein sequences and the identification of taxon specific genes. Basic homology search...

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Main Authors: Snel Berend, Boekhorst Jos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2007-09-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/8/356