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Computational prediction of gene structure is crucial for interpreting genomic sequences. But how do the algorithms involved work and how accurate are they?
Instrumentation aside, algorithms for matching mass spectra to proteins are at the heart of shotgun proteomics. How do these algorithms work, what can we expect of them and why is it so difficult to find protein modifications?
