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    Recovering prokaryotic genomes from host-associated, short-read shotgun metagenomic sequencing data

    Recovering genomes from shotgun metagenomic sequence data allows detailed taxonomic and functional characterization of individual species or strains in a microbial community. Retrieving these metagenome-assemb...

    Sara Saheb Kashaf, Alexandre Almeida, Julia A. Segre, Robert D. Finn in Nature Protocols (2021)

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    Structure and computational analysis of a novel protein with metallopeptidase-like and circularly permuted winged-helix-turn-helix domains reveals a possible role in modified polysaccharide biosynthesis

    CA_C2195 from Clostridium acetobutylicum is a protein of unknown function. Sequence analysis predicted that part of the protein contained a metallopeptidase-related domain. There are over 200 homologs of similar ...

    Debanu Das, Alexey G Murzin, Neil D Rawlings, Robert D Finn in BMC Bioinformatics (2014)

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    Skylign: a tool for creating informative, interactive logos representing sequence alignments and profile hidden Markov models

    Logos are commonly used in molecular biology to provide a compact graphical representation of the conservation pattern of a set of sequences. They render the information contained in sequence alignments or pro...

    Travis J Wheeler, Jody Clements, Robert D Finn in BMC Bioinformatics (2014)

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    Two Pfam protein families characterized by a crystal structure of protein lpg2210 from Legionella pneumophila

    Every genome contains a large number of uncharacterized proteins that may encode entirely novel biological systems. Many of these uncharacterized proteins fall into related sequence families. By applying seque...

    Penelope Coggill, Ruth Y Eberhardt, Robert D Finn, Yuanyuan Chang in BMC Bioinformatics (2013)

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    Integrating biological data – the Distributed Annotation System

    The Distributed Annotation System (DAS) is a widely adopted protocol for dynamically integrating a wide range of biological data from geographically diverse sources. DAS continues to expand its applicability a...

    Andrew M Jenkinson, Mario Albrecht, Ewan Birney, Hagen Blankenburg in BMC Bioinformatics (2008)

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    Integrating sequence and structural biology with DAS

    The Distributed Annotation System (DAS) is a network protocol for exchanging biological data. It is frequently used to share annotations of genomes and protein sequence.

    Andreas Prlić, Thomas A Down, Eugene Kulesha, Robert D Finn in BMC Bioinformatics (2007)

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    Predicting active site residue annotations in the Pfam database

    Approximately 5% of Pfam families are enzymatic, but only a small fraction of the sequences within these families (<0.5%) have had the residues responsible for catalysis determined. To increase the active site...

    Jaina Mistry, Alex Bateman, Robert D Finn in BMC Bioinformatics (2007)