FastGroup: a program to dereplicate libraries of 16S rDNA sequences.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over one hundred different types of post-transcriptional RNA modifications have been identified in human. Researchers discovered that RNA modifications can regulate various biological processes, and RNA methylation, especially N6-methyladenosine, has become one of the most researched topics in epigenetics. ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wu X,Wei Z,Chen K,Zhang Q,Su J,Liu H,Zhang L,Meng J

更新日期：2019-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microarray technology can acquire information about thousands of genes simultaneously. We analyzed published breast cancer microarray databases to predict five-year recurrence and compared the performance of three data mining algorithms of artificial neural networks (ANN), decision trees (DT) and logistic re...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chou HL,Yao CT,Su SL,Lee CY,Hu KY,Terng HJ,Shih YW,Chang YT,Lu YF,Chang CW,Wahlqvist ML,Wetter T,Chu CM

更新日期：2013-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Complex networks are studied across many fields of science and are particularly important to understand biological processes. Motifs in networks are small connected sub-graphs that occur significantly in higher frequencies than in random networks. They have recently gathered much attention as a useful concep...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kashani ZR,Ahrabian H,Elahi E,Nowzari-Dalini A,Ansari ES,Asadi S,Mohammadi S,Schreiber F,Masoudi-Nejad A

更新日期：2009-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pattern matching is the core of bioinformatics; it is used in database searching, restriction enzyme mapping, and finding open reading frames. It is done repeatedly over increasingly long sequences, thus codes must be efficient and insensitive to sequence length. Such patterns of interest include simple moti...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mangalam HJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High throughput sequencing technology provides us unprecedented opportunities to study transcriptome dynamics. Compared to microarray-based gene expression profiling, RNA-Seq has many advantages, such as high resolution, low background, and ability to identify novel transcripts. Moreover, for genes with mult...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zheng W,Chung LM,Zhao H

更新日期：2011-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identifying differentially abundant features between different experimental groups is a common goal for many metabolomics and proteomics studies. However, analyzing data from mass spectrometry (MS) is difficult because the data may not be normally distributed and there is often a large fraction of zero value...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Li Y,Fan TWM,Lane AN,Kang WY,Arnold SM,Stromberg AJ,Wang C,Chen L

更新日期：2019-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:N-linked protein glycosylation plays an important role in various biological processes, including protein folding and trafficking, and cell adhesion and signaling. The acquisition of a novel N-glycosylation site may have significant effect on protein structure and function, and therefore, on the phenotype. ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kim DS,Hahn Y

更新日期：2015-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Abruptness of pigment patterns at the periphery of a skin lesion is one of the most important dermoscopic features for detection of malignancy. In current clinical setting, abrupt cutoff of a skin lesion determined by an examination of a dermatologist. This process is subjective, nonquantitative, and error-p...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Erol R,Bayraktar M,Kockara S,Kaya S,Halic T

更新日期：2017-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Time course gene expression experiments are a popular means to infer co-expression. Many methods have been proposed to cluster genes or to build networks based on similarity measures of their expression dynamics. In this paper we apply a correlation based approach to network reconstruction to three datasets of time se...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Neretti N,Remondini D,Tatar M,Sedivy JM,Pierini M,Mazzatti D,Powell J,Franceschi C,Castellani GC

更新日期：2007-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Carbohydrates are a class of large and diverse biomolecules, ranging from a simple monosaccharide to large multi-branching glycan structures. The covalent linkage of a carbohydrate to the nitrogen atom of an asparagine, a process referred to as N-linked glycosylation, plays an important role in the physiolog...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lemmin T,Soto C

更新日期：2019-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a kind of small noncoding RNA molecules that are direct posttranscriptional regulations of mRNA targets. Studies have indicated that miRNAs play key roles in complex diseases by taking part in many biological processes, such as cell growth, cell death and so on. Therefore, in order to ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Yan C,Wu FX,Wang J,Duan G

更新日期：2020-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The reconstruction of reliable graphical models from observational data is important in bioinformatics and other computational fields applying network reconstruction methods to large, yet finite datasets. The main network reconstruction approaches are either based on Bayesian scores, which enable the ranking...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Affeldt S,Verny L,Isambert H

更新日期：2016-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gene function annotations, which are associations between a gene and a term of a controlled vocabulary describing gene functional features, are of paramount importance in modern biology. Datasets of these annotations, such as the ones provided by the Gene Ontology Consortium, are used to design novel biologi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pinoli P,Chicco D,Masseroli M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Predicting the suppression activity of antisense oligonucleotide sequences is the main goal of the rational design of nucleic acids. To create an effective predictive model, it is important to know what properties of an oligonucleotide sequence associate significantly with antisense activity. Also, for the m...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： McQuisten KA,Peek AS

更新日期：2007-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Detailed information on DNA-binding transcription factors (the key players in the regulation of gene expression) and on transcriptional regulatory interactions of microorganisms deduced from literature-derived knowledge, computer predictions and global DNA microarray hybridization experiments, has opened the...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Baumbach J

更新日期：2007-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In recent years, a considerable amount of research effort has been directed to the analysis of biological networks with the availability of genome-scale networks of genes and/or proteins of an increasing number of organisms. A protein-protein interaction (PPI) network is a particular biological network which...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Turanalp ME,Can T

更新日期：2008-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sharing sets of chemical data (e.g., chemical properties, docking scores, etc.) among collaborators with diverse skill sets is a common task in computer-aided drug design and medicinal chemistry. The ability to associate this data with images of the relevant molecular structures greatly facilitates scientifi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Durrant JD,Amaro RE

更新日期：2014-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The wide use of high-throughput DNA microarray technology provide an increasingly detailed view of human transcriptome from hundreds to thousands of genes. Although biomedical researchers typically design microarray experiments to explore specific biological contexts, the relationships between genes are hard...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kong W,Mou X,Hu X

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A phylogeny postulates shared ancestry relationships among organisms in the form of a binary tree. Phylogenies attempt to answer an important question posed in biology: what are the ancestor-descendent relationships between organisms? At the core of every biological problem lies a phylogenetic component. The...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Varón A,Wheeler WC

更新日期：2013-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Non-coding RNAs gain more attention as their diverse roles in many cellular processes are discovered. At the same time, the need for efficient computational prediction of ncRNAs increases with the pace of sequencing technology. Existing tools are based on various approaches and techniques, but none of them p...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Raasch P,Schmitz U,Patenge N,Vera J,Kreikemeyer B,Wolkenhauer O

更新日期：2010-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One of the most powerful methods for the prediction of protein structure from sequence information alone is the iterative construction of profile-type models. Because profiles are built from sequence alignments, the sequences included in the alignment and the method used to align them will be important to th...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Scheeff ED,Bourne PE

更新日期：2006-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Zebrafish is a widely used model organism for studying heart development and cardiac-related pathogenesis. With the ability of surviving without a functional circulation at larval stages, strong genetic similarity between zebrafish and mammals, prolific reproduction and optically transparent embryos, zebrafi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kang CP,Tu HC,Fu TF,Wu JM,Chu PH,Chang DT

更新日期：2018-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Direct in vivo investigation of human metabolism is complicated by the distinct metabolic functions of various sub-cellular organelles. Diverse micro-environments in different organelles may lead to distinct functions of the same protein and the use of different enzymes for the same metabolic reaction. To be...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hao T,Ma HW,Zhao XM,Goryanin I

更新日期：2010-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Immunoglobulins (IG) and the T cell receptors (TR) play the key role in antigen recognition during the adaptive immune response. Recent progress in next-generation sequencing technologies has provided an opportunity for the deep T cell receptor repertoire profiling. However, a specialised software is req...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Nazarov VI,Pogorelyy MV,Komech EA,Zvyagin IV,Bolotin DA,Shugay M,Chudakov DM,Lebedev YB,Mamedov IZ

更新日期：2015-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gene expression studies greatly contribute to our understanding of complex relationships in gene regulatory networks. However, the complexity of array design, production and manipulations are limiting factors, affecting data quality. The use of customized DNA microarrays improves overall data quality in many...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Vainshtein Y,Sanchez M,Brazma A,Hentze MW,Dandekar T,Muckenthaler MU

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cross-platform analysis of gene express data requires multiple, intricate processes at different layers with various platforms. However, existing tools handle only a single platform and are not flexible enough to support custom changes, which arise from the new statistical methods, updated versions of refere...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kim J,Patel K,Jung H,Kuo WP,Ohno-Machado L

更新日期：2011-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A common method for presenting and studying biological interaction networks is visualization. Software tools can enhance our ability to explore network visualizations and improve our understanding of biological systems, particularly when these tools offer analysis capabilities. However, most published networ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Macpherson JI,Pinney JW,Robertson DL

更新日期：2009-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein structure prediction has achieved a lot of progress during the last few decades and a greater number of models for a certain sequence can be predicted. Consequently, assessing the qualities of predicted protein models in perspective is one of the key components of successful protein structure predict...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Jing X,Dong Q

更新日期：2017-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fluorescence microscopy is widely used to determine the subcellular location of proteins. Efforts to determine location on a proteome-wide basis create a need for automated methods to analyze the resulting images. Over the past ten years, the feasibility of using machine learning methods to recognize all maj...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chebira A,Barbotin Y,Jackson C,Merryman T,Srinivasa G,Murphy RF,Kovacević J

更新日期：2007-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biological data have traditionally been stored and made publicly available through a variety of on-line databases, whereas biological knowledge has traditionally been found in the printed literature. With journals now on-line and providing an increasing amount of open access content, often free of copyright ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Prlić A,Martinez MA,Dimitropoulos D,Beran B,Yukich BT,Rose PW,Bourne PE,Fink JL

更新日期：2010-04-29 00:00:00