Amino acid "little Big Bang": Representing amino acid substitution matrices as dot products of Euclidian vectors

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Sequence comparisons make use of a one-letter representation for amino acids, the necessary quantitative information being supplied by the substitution matrices. This paper deals with the problem of finding a representation that prov...

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Main Authors: Zimmermann Karel, Gibrat Jean-François
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-01-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/11/4