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2 claims from 2 papers

1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

   UniRef clusters: a comprehensive and scalable alternative for improving sequence similarity searches

   Süzek, Wang, Huang, McGarvey and Wu · Bioinformatics · 2014

   The paper tests UniRef protein clusters, finding them consistent in molecular function and faster, more concise and sensitive for similarity searches than searching the full UniProtKB sequence database.

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   1. UncheckedIn over 97% of UniRef clusters, the proteins grouped together share the same molecular function, according to Gene Ontology term analysis.“Results show that UniRef clusters bring together proteins of identical molecular function in more than 97% of the clusters, implying that clusters are useful for annotation and can also be used to detect annotation inconsistencies.”

2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

   HH-suite3 for fast remote homology detection and deep protein annotation

   Steinegger, Meier, Mirdita, Vöhringer, Haunsberger and Söding · BMC Bioinformatics · 2019

   The paper presents HH-suite3, a faster version of software for sensitive protein sequence searches and fold recognition, with a vectorized alignment step and support for parallel jobs.

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   1. UncheckedThe authors report that their new HH-suite version runs HHsearch about four times faster and HHblits about twice as fast as version 2.0.16.“These accelerated the search methods HHsearch by a factor 4 and HHblits by a factor 2 over the previous version 2.0.16.”