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Recent publications:

Wilkerson, M.D., Ru, Y., and Brendel, V.P. (2009) Common introns within orthologous genes: software and application to plants Briefings in Bioinformatics, 10(6), 631-644. [abstract] [PDF]

PlantGDB News:

Community-annotated maize gene models (see an example at ZmGDB) are now displayed at both MaizeGDB and maizesequence.org, by means of Distributed Annotation Service (DAS) (November 21, 2009).

Brachypodium distachyon browser: BdGDB, a genome browser for the model grass species Brachypodium distachyon, is now available, based on the JGI v1.0 8x genome assembly. The assembly displayed comprises 271.15 Mb arranged in 5 pseudochromosomes. Display includes gene models, splice-aligned EST, cDNA, PUT assembly and Arabidopsis and rice predicted proteins (October 30, 2009).

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PairwiseStatSig

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Description: The PairwiseStatSig program estimates the pairwise statistical significance of a pairwise local alignment of two protein sequences independent of any database using censored Maximum Likelihood Fitting.

Citation: Agrawal, A., Brendel, V. & Huang, X. (2008) Pairwise statistical significance versus database statistical significance for local alignment of protein sequences. In I.I. Măndoiu, R. Sunderraman & A.Z. Zelikovsky (eds.), 2008 International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, May 6-9, 2008, Georgia State University, Atlanta GA, U.S.A.. Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics 4983, 50-61. [online abstract]; Agrawal, A., Brendel, V. & Huang, X. (2008) Pairwise statistical signifiance and empirical determination of effective gap opening penalties for protein local sequence alignment. Int. J. of Computational Biol. and Drug Design, 1(4), 347-367; to appear.

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