ORFer--retrieval of protein sequences and open reading frames from GenBank and storage into relational databases or text files.

abstract：BACKGROUND:High throughput DNA/RNA sequencing has revolutionized biological and clinical research. Sequencing is widely used, and generates very large amounts of data, mainly due to reduced cost and advanced technologies. Quickly assessing the quality of giga-to-tera base levels of sequencing data has become a routine ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chanumolu SK,Albahrani M,Otu HH

更新日期：2019-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein-coding gene detection in prokaryotic genomes is considered a much simpler problem than in intron-containing eukaryotic genomes. However there have been reports that prokaryotic gene finder programs have problems with small genes (either over-predicting or under-predicting). Therefore the question ari...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Warren AS,Archuleta J,Feng WC,Setubal JC

更新日期：2010-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Complex microarray gene expression datasets can be used for many independent analyses and are particularly interesting for the validation of potential biomarkers and multi-gene classifiers. This article presents a novel method to perform correlations between microarray gene expression data and clinico-pathol...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Corradi L,Mirisola V,Porro I,Torterolo L,Fato M,Romano P,Pfeffer U

更新日期：2009-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A range of rare and common genetic variants have been discovered to be potentially associated with mental diseases, but many more have not been uncovered. Powerful integrative methods are needed to systematically prioritize both variants and genes that confer susceptibility to mental diseases in personal gen...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Khan A,Liu Q,Wang K

更新日期：2018-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental shotgun sequencing (ESS) has potential to give greater insight into microbial communities than targeted sequencing of 16S regions, but requires much higher sequence coverage. The advent of next-generation sequencing has made it feasible for the Human Microbiome Project and other initiatives to generate E...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ander C,Schulz-Trieglaff OB,Stoye J,Cox AJ

更新日期：2013-01-01 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:Continuous enzyme kinetic assays are often used in high-throughput applications, as they allow rapid acquisition of large amounts of kinetic data and increased confidence compared to discontinuous assays. However, data analysis is often rate-limiting in high-throughput enzyme assays, as manual inspection and...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Olp MD,Kalous KS,Smith BC

更新日期：2020-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many proteins contain conserved sequence patterns (motifs) that contribute to their functionality. The process of experimentally identifying and validating novel protein motifs can be difficult, expensive, and time consuming. A means for helping to identify in advance the possible function of a novel motif i...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bristow F,He R,Van Domselaar G

更新日期：2011-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The exploration of the structural topology and the organizing principles of genome-based large-scale metabolic networks is essential for studying possible relations between structure and functionality of metabolic networks. Topological analysis of graph models has often been applied to study the structural c...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhao J,Yu H,Luo JH,Cao ZW,Li YX

更新日期：2006-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The frequent exchange of genetic material among prokaryotes means that extracting a majority or plurality phylogenetic signal from many gene families, and the identification of gene families that are in significant conflict with the plurality signal is a frequent task in comparative genomics, and especially ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mao F,Williams D,Zhaxybayeva O,Poptsova M,Lapierre P,Gogarten JP,Xu Y

更新日期：2012-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:RNA-seq is a powerful tool for measuring transcriptomes, especially for identifying differentially expressed genes or transcripts (DEGs) between sample groups. A number of methods have been developed for this task, and several evaluation studies have also been reported. However, those evaluations so far have...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Tang M,Sun J,Shimizu K,Kadota K

更新日期：2015-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Somatic copy number alternation (SCNA) is a common feature of the cancer genome and is associated with cancer etiology and prognosis. The allele-specific SCNA analysis of a tumor sample aims to identify the allele-specific copy numbers of both alleles, adjusting for the ploidy and the tumor purity. Next gene...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Choo-Wosoba H,Albert PS,Zhu B

更新日期：2018-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We introduce a novel method, called PuFFIN, that takes advantage of paired-end short reads to build genome-wide nucleosome maps with larger numbers of detected nucleosomes and higher accuracy than existing tools. In contrast to other approaches that require users to optimize several parameters according to t...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Polishko A,Bunnik EM,Le Roch KG,Lonardi S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Semantic Web technologies offer a promising framework for integration of disparate biomedical data. In this paper we present the semantic information integration platform under development at the Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences (CCTS) at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHSC-H)...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mirhaji P,Zhu M,Vagnoni M,Bernstam EV,Zhang J,Smith JW

更新日期：2009-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During the past decade, many software packages have been developed for analysis and visualization of various types of microarrays. We have developed and maintained the widely used dChip as a microarray analysis software package accessible to both biologist and data analysts. However, challenges arise when dC...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Li C

更新日期：2008-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We develop a probabilistic model for combining kernel matrices to predict the function of proteins. It extends previous approaches in that it can handle multiple labels which naturally appear in the context of protein function. RESULTS:Explicit modeling of multilabels significantly improves the capability o...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Roth V,Fischer B

更新日期：2007-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A massive amount of proteomic data is generated on a daily basis, nonetheless annotating all sequences is costly and often unfeasible. As a countermeasure, machine learning methods have been used to automatically annotate new protein functions. More specifically, many studies have investigated hierarchical m...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Nakano FK,Lietaert M,Vens C

更新日期：2019-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The locations and shapes of synapses are important in reconstructing connectomes and analyzing synaptic plasticity. However, current synapse detection and segmentation methods are still not adequate for accurately acquiring the synaptic connectivity, and they cannot effectively alleviate the burden of synaps...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Xiao C,Li W,Deng H,Chen X,Yang Y,Xie Q,Han H

更新日期：2018-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The imputation of missing values is necessary for the efficient use of DNA microarray data, because many clustering algorithms and some statistical analysis require a complete data set. A few imputation methods for DNA microarray data have been introduced, but the efficiency of the methods was low and the va...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kim KY,Kim BJ,Yi GS

更新日期：2004-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microarrays permit biologists to simultaneously measure the mRNA abundance of thousands of genes. An important issue facing investigators planning microarray experiments is how to estimate the sample size required for good statistical power. What is the projected sample size or number of replicate chips need...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Page GP,Edwards JW,Gadbury GL,Yelisetti P,Wang J,Trivedi P,Allison DB

更新日期：2006-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Molecular data, e.g. arising from microarray technology, is often used for predicting survival probabilities of patients. For multivariate risk prediction models on such high-dimensional data, there are established techniques that combine parameter estimation and variable selection. One big challenge is to i...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sariyar M,Hoffmann I,Binder H

更新日期：2014-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Homology is a crucial concept in comparative genomics. The algorithm probably most widely used for homology detection in comparative genomics, is BLAST. Usually a stringent score cutoff is applied to distinguish putative homologs from possible false positive hits. As a consequence, some BLAST hits are discar...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Fokkens L,Botelho SM,Boekhorst J,Snel B

更新日期：2010-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The goal of metabolomics analyses is a comprehensive and systematic understanding of all metabolites in biological samples. Many useful platforms have been developed to achieve this goal. Gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (GC/MS) is a well-established analytical method in metabolomics study, an...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Tsugawa H,Tsujimoto Y,Arita M,Bamba T,Fukusaki E

更新日期：2011-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gene expression patterns of olfactory receptors (ORs) are an important component of the signal encoding mechanism in the olfactory system since they determine the interactions between odorant ligands and sensory neurons. We have developed the Olfactory Receptor Microarray Database (ORMD) to house OR gene exp...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Liu N,Crasto CJ,Ma M

更新日期：2007-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Primer design for highly variable DNA sequences is difficult, and experimental success requires attention to many interacting constraints. The advent of next-generation sequencing methods allows the investigation of rare variants otherwise hidden deep in large populations, but requires attention to populatio...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Brodin J,Krishnamoorthy M,Athreya G,Fischer W,Hraber P,Gleasner C,Green L,Korber B,Leitner T

更新日期：2013-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the last decade, a significant improvement in detecting remote similarity between protein sequences has been made by utilizing alignment profiles in place of amino-acid strings. Unfortunately, no analytical theory is available for estimating the significance of a gapped alignment of two profiles. Many exp...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Poleksic A

更新日期：2009-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Maize is a leading crop in the modern agricultural industry that accounts for more than 40% grain production worldwide. THe double haploid technique that uses fewer breeding generations for generating a maize line has accelerated the pace of development of superior commercial seed varieties and has been tran...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Veeramani B,Raymond JW,Chanda P

更新日期：2018-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) play key roles in various cellular functions. In addition, some critical inter-species interactions such as host-pathogen interactions and pathogenicity occur through PPIs. Phytopathogenic bacteria infect hosts through attachment to host tissue, enzyme secretion, exopolysa...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kim JG,Park D,Kim BC,Cho SW,Kim YT,Park YJ,Cho HJ,Park H,Kim KB,Yoon KO,Park SJ,Lee BM,Bhak J

更新日期：2008-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Under conditions of no strand bias the number of Gs is equal to that of Cs for each DNA strand; similarly, the total number of Ts is equal to that of As. However, within each strand there are considerable local deviations from the A = T and G = C equality. These asymmetries in nucleotide composition have bee...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Thomas JM,Horspool D,Brown G,Tcherepanov V,Upton C

更新日期：2007-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most single stranded RNA (ssRNA) viruses mutate rapidly to generate large number of strains having highly divergent capsid sequences. Accurate strain recognition in uncharacterized target capsid sequences is essential for epidemiology, diagnostics, and vaccine development. Strain recognition based on similar...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhu D,Fox GE,Chakravarty S

更新日期：2007-10-10 00:00:00