Calibrating E-values for hidden Markov models with reverse-sequence null models (2005)
| Venue: | Bioinformatics |
| Citations: | 7 - 3 self |
BibTeX
@ARTICLE{Karplus05calibratinge-values,
author = {Kevin Karplus and Rachel Karchin and George Shackelford and Richard Hughey},
title = {Calibrating E-values for hidden Markov models with reverse-sequence null models},
journal = {Bioinformatics},
year = {2005},
pages = {4107--4115}
}
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Abstract
Motivation: Hidden Markov models (hmms) calculate the probability that a sequence was generated by a given model. Log-odds scoring provides a context for evaluating this probability, by considering it in relation to a null hypothesis. We have found that using a reverse-sequence null model effectively removes biases due to sequence length and composition and reduces the number of false positives in a database search. Any scoring system is an arbitrary measure of the quality of database matches. Significance estimates of scores are essential, because they eliminate model- and methoddependent







