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| -rw-r--r-- | biology/genesplicer/DESCR | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | biology/glimmer/DESCR | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | biology/gp/DESCR | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | biology/hmmer/DESCR | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | biology/mummer/DESCR | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | biology/pdbalign/DESCR | 22 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | biology/profit/DESCR | 2 |
7 files changed, 24 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/biology/genesplicer/DESCR b/biology/genesplicer/DESCR index c8999a5aeed..66eff425b00 100644 --- a/biology/genesplicer/DESCR +++ b/biology/genesplicer/DESCR @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -GeneSplicer is a fast, flexible system for detecting splice sites in the -genomic DNA of various eukaryotes. The system has been trained and tested -successfully on Plasmodium falciparum (malaria), Arabidopsis thaliana, human, -Drosophila, and rice. +GeneSplicer is a fast, flexible system for detecting splice sites in the +genomic DNA of various eukaryotes. The system has been trained and tested +successfully on Plasmodium falciparum (malaria), Arabidopsis thaliana, human, +Drosophila, and rice. diff --git a/biology/glimmer/DESCR b/biology/glimmer/DESCR index f21dd550ce1..09f10348afc 100644 --- a/biology/glimmer/DESCR +++ b/biology/glimmer/DESCR @@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ genes in microbial DNA, especially the genomes of bacteria and archaea. Glimmer uses interpolated Markov models (IMMs) to identify the coding regions and distinguish them from noncoding DNA. The IMM approach uses a combination of Markov models from 1st through 8th-order, weighting each model according to -its predictive power. +its predictive power. diff --git a/biology/gp/DESCR b/biology/gp/DESCR index 0c7ef2fc23a..ef903861327 100644 --- a/biology/gp/DESCR +++ b/biology/gp/DESCR @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ -GP is a set of small utilities written in ANSI C to manipulate +GP is a set of small utilities written in ANSI C to manipulate DNA sequences in a Unix fashion, fit for combining within shell and cgi scripts. diff --git a/biology/hmmer/DESCR b/biology/hmmer/DESCR index 579feb85d30..c4a4c562c35 100644 --- a/biology/hmmer/DESCR +++ b/biology/hmmer/DESCR @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -HMMER is an implementation of profile HMM methods for sensitive database -searches using multiple sequence alignments as queries. HMMER takes -multiple sequence alignment as input and builds statistical model -called "Hidden Markov Model" which can be used as a query into a -sequence database to find and/or align additional homologues of the +HMMER is an implementation of profile HMM methods for sensitive database +searches using multiple sequence alignments as queries. HMMER takes +multiple sequence alignment as input and builds statistical model +called "Hidden Markov Model" which can be used as a query into a +sequence database to find and/or align additional homologues of the sequence family. diff --git a/biology/mummer/DESCR b/biology/mummer/DESCR index d265928f73e..50c78e0e119 100644 --- a/biology/mummer/DESCR +++ b/biology/mummer/DESCR @@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ sequences containing millions of nucleotides whether in complete or draft form. MUMmer can also align incomplete genomes; it handles the 100s or 1000s of contigs from a shotgun sequencing project with ease, and will align them to another set of contigs or a genome using the NUCmer program included with the -system. +system. diff --git a/biology/pdbalign/DESCR b/biology/pdbalign/DESCR index 54c1751e372..fcaa0409356 100644 --- a/biology/pdbalign/DESCR +++ b/biology/pdbalign/DESCR @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ -Given a GCG multiple sequence alignment file (a GCG MSF file), which a -includes a sequence of known structure, the program pdbalign maps the -sequence variability onto the known structure. The central premise is -of course, that for a closely related family of proteins (sequence ID -> 40%) the 3-D structures will not be significantly different.pdbdist -calculates the distance from each atom in the pdb file to each atom in -the ligand and records the minimum in the temperature field for that -atom record.distalign reads the output from pdbdist and also the -original GCG MSF file and produces an MSF file annotated with a -measure of sequence variability and the distance of the residue at -that position (of the sequence of known structure) from the ligand. +Given a GCG multiple sequence alignment file (a GCG MSF file), which a +includes a sequence of known structure, the program pdbalign maps the +sequence variability onto the known structure. The central premise is +of course, that for a closely related family of proteins (sequence ID +> 40%) the 3-D structures will not be significantly different.pdbdist +calculates the distance from each atom in the pdb file to each atom in +the ligand and records the minimum in the temperature field for that +atom record.distalign reads the output from pdbdist and also the +original GCG MSF file and produces an MSF file annotated with a +measure of sequence variability and the distance of the residue at +that position (of the sequence of known structure) from the ligand. diff --git a/biology/profit/DESCR b/biology/profit/DESCR index 6614adffd68..ceb2e2259fb 100644 --- a/biology/profit/DESCR +++ b/biology/profit/DESCR @@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ program for performing least squares fits of two protein structures. It performs a very simple and basic function, but allows as much flexibility as possible in performing this procedure. Thus one can specify subsets of atoms to be considered, specify zones to be fitted by number, sequence, or by -sequence alignment. +sequence alignment. |