BMC Bioinformatics

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Word correlation matrices for protein sequence analysis and remote homology detection

Thomas Lingner* and Peter Meinicke

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Department of Bioinformatics, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9:259 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-259

Published: 3 June 2008

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Pfam full alignment of the Omega-toxin family (PF06357). The file pfamAln.png contains a screenshot from the Pfam website (see [22]) which shows the multiple alignment of all member sequences of the Omega-toxin family (Pfam ID PF06357). The Omega-toxin family belongs to the omega toxin-like superfamily. Some of the discriminative words in Table 2 can be identified in the sequences (see text).

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