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| Andreas HegerSummaryAffiliation: University of Helsinki Country: Finland Publications
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Exhaustive enumeration of protein domain familiesAndreas Heger
EMBL EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
J Mol Biol 328:749-67. 2003..The data are publicly available at ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/contrib/heger/adda...
ADDA: a domain database with global coverage of the protein universeAndreas Heger
Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
Nucleic Acids Res 33:D188-91. 2005..The data are freely available for downloading and querying via a web interface (http://ekhidna.biocenter.helsinki.fi:9801/sqgraph/pairsdb)...
Accurate detection of very sparse sequence motifsAndreas Heger
Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Finland
J Comput Biol 11:843-57. 2004....
The Pfam protein families databaseRobert D Finn
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SA, UK
Nucleic Acids Res 38:D211-22. 2010..Pfam is available via servers in the UK (http://pfam.sanger.ac.uk/), the USA (http://pfam.janelia.org/) and Sweden (http://pfam.sbc.su.se/)...
The Pfam protein families databaseMarco Punta
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK
Nucleic Acids Res 40:D290-301. 2012..Second, we discuss some of the features of domains of unknown function (also known as DUFs), which constitute a rapidly growing class of families within Pfam...
The global trace graph, a novel paradigm for searching protein sequence databasesAndreas Heger
Institute of Biotechnology, P O Box 56 Viikinkaari 5, FI 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
Bioinformatics 23:2361-7. 2007..The evolutionary signal can be difficult to detect because functional sites may consist of non-contiguous residues while segments in-between may be mutated without affecting fold or function...
Insights into hominid evolution from the gorilla genome sequenceAylwyn Scally
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK
Nature 483:169-75. 2012..The use of the genome sequence in these and future analyses will promote a deeper understanding of great ape biology and evolution...
OPTIC: orthologous and paralogous transcripts in cladesAndreas Heger
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, MRC Functional Genetics Unit, University of Oxford, Le Gros Clark Building, Oxford OX1 3QX, UK
Nucleic Acids Res 36:D267-70. 2008..Gene predictions, multiple alignments and phylogenetic trees are freely available to browse and download from http://genserv.anat.ox.ac.uk/clades. Further genomes and clades will be added in the future...
Sensitive pattern discovery with 'fuzzy' alignments of distantly related proteinsAndreas Heger
Institute of Biotechnology, P.O. Box 56, 00014 University of Helsinki Finland
Bioinformatics 19:i130-7. 2003..We demonstrate the discovery of biologically meaningful patterns in an extremely diverse superfamily related to urease...
PairsDB atlas of protein sequence spaceAndreas Heger
MRC Functional Genetics Unit, University of Oxford, UK
Nucleic Acids Res 36:D276-80. 2008..Moreover, query-anchored stacked sequence alignments, profiles and consensus sequences are useful in studies of sequence conservation patterns for clues about possible functional sites...
Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogenyAndrew G Clark
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
Nature 450:203-18. 2007..These may prove to underlie differences in the ecology and behaviour of these diverse species...
Uncertainty in homology inferences: assessing and improving genomic sequence alignmentGerton Lunter
MRC Functional Genetics Unit, Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QX, United Kingdom
Genome Res 18:298-309. 2008..Alignment errors are inevitable, and should be considered when drawing conclusions from alignments. Software and alignments to assist researchers in doing this are provided at http://genserv.anat.ox.ac.uk/grape/...
Rapid bursts of androgen-binding protein (Abp) gene duplication occurred independently in diverse mammalsChristina M Laukaitis
Department of Medical Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle, USA and Division of Human Biology, Fred Hutchinson CancerResearch Center, Seattle, USA
BMC Evol Biol 8:46. 2008..Questions arise from imperfections in the initial mouse genome assembly and a dearth of information about the gene family structure in other rodents and mammals...
