Journal of bioinformatics and computational biology
Oct 1, 2018
Protein secondary structure prediction (PSSP) is an important research field in bioinformatics. The representation of protein sequence features could be treated as a matrix, which includes the amino-acid residue (time-step) dimension and the feature ...
Journal of bioinformatics and computational biology
Oct 1, 2018
Discerning how a mutation affects the stability of a protein is central to the study of a wide range of diseases. Mutagenesis experiments on physical proteins provide precise insights about the effects of amino acid substitutions, but such studies ar...
Journal of bioinformatics and computational biology
Feb 1, 2016
Genomic islands (GIs) are clusters of functionally related genes acquired by lateral genetic transfer (LGT), and they are present in many bacterial genomes. GIs are extremely important for bacterial research, because they not only promote genome evol...