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UPGMA computation

The unweighted pair group method with arithmetic mean (UPGMA) is a hierarchical clustering method, for example used in phylogeny. In a phylogenetic tree it would result in a global molecular clock ...
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How to use multiple .pdb files as templates for homology modelling?

I just ran an AlphaFold job for PduK from the Pdu BMC operon and got very strange results including a large circular loop of random coil. According to Mayer et al., PduK should be semi-triangular ...
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Is there a computational method/method/way to predict if a cell population in a tissue immigrated or is enriched locally?

I have single cell data which I have analysed for differential expression. In my experiment, I subjected two groups of mice (a control and a treatment group) to treatment that will lead to the ...
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How can I predict if the binding site of a DNA-binding protein is located on the promoter sequence of a gene?

Is there any computational tool or any other method to predict if the binding site of DNA binding protein is actually located on a promoter sequence?
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How do I computationally predict the binding position of a DNA binding protein on the promoters of differentially expressed genes?

I have a list of human genes that have been proven to be up-regulated in a disease condition of interest, using microarray analysis. I also have a protein which according to literature is said to be a ...
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How to find the position-specific weight matrix (PSWM) for a list of genes having different sizes?

Wiki has the algorithm for finding position-specific weight matrix (PSWM) for a list of nucleotide sequences having an equal number of nucleotide. How do we find the PSSM for a list of nucleotide ...
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Which is the amino acids classification when analyzing the solvent accessibility of a protein?

I came across an article which has defined 3 categories: Buried [A, L, F, C, G, I, V, W], Exposed [ R, K, Q, E, N, D] and Intermediate [M, S, P, T, H, Y] when analyzing the solvent accessibility of a ...
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How to measure or assign hydrophobicity score values to individual amino acids of a PDB structure?

I want measure the hydrophobicity of each amino acid within a PDB structure file. Since I have the PDB file I want to consider the 3D information, rather than sequence-only measures such as GRAVY. I ...
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Protein folding problem model for quantum computers?

It's supposed that quantum computers could help to find the native state of all human DNA proteins. Does anyone know how to formulate the protein folding problem into a decision problem solvable ...
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Difference between computational biology, bioinformatics and biostatistics [closed]

I find that in many contexts, the terms computational biology, bioinformatics and biostatistics are often treated as functionally equivalent, and yet for students selecting PhD programs and the like ...