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Toshitake Asabuki, Claudia Clopath
Recurrent neural circuits often face inherent complexities in learning and generating their desired outputs, especially when they initially exhibit chaotic spontaneous activity. While the celebrated FORCE learning rule can train chaotic recurrent networks to produce coherent patterns by suppressing chaos, it requires…
Toshitake Asabuki, Claudia Clopath
Recurrent neural circuits often face inherent complexities in learning and generating their desired outputs, especially when they initially exhibit chaotic spontaneous activity. While the celebrated FORCE learning rule can train chaotic recurrent networks to produce coherent patterns by suppressing chaos, it requires…
Morten Nielsen, Claus Lundegaard, Ole Lund
Background Antigen presenting cells (APCs) sample the extra cellular space and present peptides from here to T helper cells, which can be activated if the peptides are of foreign origin. The peptides are presented on the surface of the cells in complex with major histocompatibility class II (MHC II) molecules.…
Masaki Tagashira
To capture structural homology in RNAs, predicting RNA structural alignments has been a fundamental framework around RNA science. Learning simultaneous RNA structural alignments in their rich scoring parameterization is an undeveloped subject because evaluating them is computationally expensive in nature. We developed…
Byung-Jun Yoon
Background Sequence alignment has become an indispensable tool in modern molecular biology research, and probabilistic sequence alignment models have been shown to provide an effective framework for building accurate sequence alignment tools. One such example is the pair hidden Markov model (pair-HMM), which has been…
Zhen Tan, Yinghan Fu, Gaurav Sharma, David H. Mathews
This paper presents TurboFold II, an extension of the TurboFold algorithm for predicting secondary structures for multiple RNA homologs. TurboFold II augments the structure prediction capabilities of TurboFold by additionally providing multiple sequence alignments. Probabilities for alignment of nucleotide positions…
Tao Fang, Damian Szklarczyk, Radja Hachilif, Christian von Mering
Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) play essential roles in most biological processes. The binding interfaces between interacting proteins impose evolutionary constraints that have successfully been employed to predict PPIs from multiple sequence alignments (MSAs). To construct MSAs, critical choices have to be made…
Tao Fang, Damian Szklarczyk, Radja Hachilif, Christian von Mering
Protein-protein interactions play essential roles in almost all biological processes. The binding interfaces between interacting proteins impose evolutionary constraints, leading to co-evolutionary signals that have successfully been employed to predict protein interactions from multiple sequence alignments (MSAs).…
Maryam Gillani, Gianluca Pollastri
Alignments in bioinformatics refer to the arrangement of sequences to identify regions of similarity that can indicate functional, structural, or evolutionary relationships. They are crucial for bioinformaticians as they enable accurate predictions and analyses in various applications, including protein subcellular…
Maurits Dijkstra, Punto Bawono, Sanne Abeln, K. Anton Feenstra + 3 more
'Wan Fokkink' 'Jaap Heringa' 'Ilya Ioshikhes'] Protein or DNA motifs are sequence regions which possess biological importance. These regions are often highly conserved among homologous sequences. The generation of multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) with a correct alignment of the conserved sequence motifs is still…
Nimrod Serok, Ksenia Polonsky, Haim Ashkenazy, Itay Mayrose + 2 more
Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) inference is a central task in molecular evolution and comparative genomics, and the reliability of downstream analyses, including phylogenetic inference, depends critically on alignment quality. Despite this importance, most widely used MSA methods optimize the sum-of-pairs (SP)…
Maurits J J Dijkstra, Atze J van der Ploeg, K Anton Feenstra, Wan J Fokkink + 3 more
Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is one of the fundamental tasks in bioinformatics, essential to a wide variety of workflows, including fold prediction, phylogenetic analysis and mutation impact prediction. The exact solution with dynamic programming is not feasible for more than a handful of sequences. For protein…
Andreas Grigorjew, Artur Gynter, Fernando Dias, Benjamin Buchfink + 2 more
Sequence alignments have become the foundation of life science research by unlocking biological mechanisms through protein comparisons. Despite its methodological success, most algorithmic innovation in the past decades focused on the optimal alignment problem, while often ignoring information derived from suboptimal…
James H. Collier, Lloyd Allison, Arthur M. Lesk, Peter J. Stuckey + 2 more
Structural molecular biology depends crucially on computational techniques that compare protein three-dimensional structures and generate structural alignments (the assignment of one-to-one correspondences between subsets of amino acids based on atomic coordinates.) Despite its importance, the structural alignment…