Algorithms

A collection of articles based on algorithm development in bioinformatics.

Latest Algorithms News

Recent advances in in-silico approaches for enzyme engineering

Enzymes are natural biocatalysts and an attractive alternative to chemicals providing improved…

Dr. Muniba Faiza

Alignment-free approaches for Sequence Analysis

Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA) is a fundamental aspect of Bioinformatics in order…

Dr. Muniba Faiza

New features to predict miRNA target sites in mRNAs

In order to study gene regulation, it is necessary to identify the…

Dr. Muniba Faiza

Common features used to develop miRNA target prediction tools

As we have discussed the miRNAs, their formation, and functions (miRNA targets…

Dr. Muniba Faiza

Prediction of Protein-Protein Binding Affinity through their Amino Acid Sequence

Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) have become necessary in order to study many biological…

Dr. Muniba Faiza

miRNAs and their Target Prediction Tools: An Overview

miRNAs are the small endogenous non-coding RNAs having a length less than…

Dr. Muniba Faiza

DrugQuest: Tool for Drug-associated Queries

In this rising era of personalized medicine, drug discovery, data refining, chemical…

Dr. Muniba Faiza

Foldalign: a tool for secondary structure alignment of RNA

Secondary structure formation and conformational changes play a key role in understanding…

Dr. Muniba Faiza

WebFEATURE : Tool to identify and visualize Functional Sites in Macromolecules

The identification and assignment of functions of unknown macro molecules has been…

Dr. Muniba Faiza

Active learning in drug-target interactions

Active learning is a kind of machine learning. Basically in active learning,…

Dr. Muniba Faiza

Genetic Algorithm: Explanation and Perl Code

When it comes to bioinformatics algorithms, Genetic algorithms top the list of…

Tariq Abdullah

T-Coffee : A tool that combines both local and global alignments

T-Coffee is a multiple sequence alignment tool which stands for Tree-based Consistency…

Dr. Muniba Faiza

Structural Identification of Macromolecules in solution with DARA web server

To study macromolecules in homogenous solution, a technique known as SAXS (…

Dr. Muniba Faiza

Explained: CRISPR-ERA and CRISPR/Cas9 system

CRISPR/Cas9 system is a bacterial defence mechanism against bacteriophage infection. When a…

Tariq Abdullah

MUSCLE: Tool for Multiple Sequence Alignment

In my last article I discussed about the Multiple Sequence Alignment and…

Dr. Muniba Faiza

Basic Concept of Multiple Sequence Alignment

Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA) is a very basic step in the phylogeny…

Dr. Muniba Faiza

Meta-analysis of biological literature : Explained

The new cool word to biological realm “meta-analysis” can be better understood…

Manish Kumar Mishra