THE PD-(D/E)XK SUPERFAMILY REVISITED: IDENTIFICATION OF NEW MEMBERS AMONG PROTEINS INVOLVED IN DNA METABOLISM AND FUNCTIONAL PREDICTIONS FOR DOMAINS OF (HITHERTO) UNKNOWN FUNCTION

The PD-(D/E)XK superfamily revisited: identification of new members among proteins involved in DNA metabolism and functional predictions for domains of (hitherto) unknown function

Abstract Background The PD-(D/E)XK nuclease superfamily, initially identified in type II restriction endonucleases and later in many enzymes involved in DNA recombination and repair, is one of the most challenging targets for protein sequence analysis and structure prediction.Typically, the sequence similarity between these proteins is so low, that

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Evolving Document Patterns in UK Research Assessment Cycles

Researcher behavior is shown to change under assessment.An unexpected time-skew toward most recent papers in each census period was found among the outputs selected by UK academics for the research assessment cycles of the 1990s.This skew changed to a more even time-based distribution for scientists and Clothing engineers in later cycles.At the sam

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Lattice-based ring signcryption for consortium blockchain

Ring signcryption with no group administrator satisfies the decentralization and blockchain anonymity.In this article, we construct new lattice-based ring signcryption scheme suitable for consortium blockchain (CB-LRSCS), in which the smart Hair Coloring contract controls the process of signcryption and unsigncryption to make the system be fair and

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