Domain fusion analysis by applying relational algebra to protein sequence and domain databases.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Activities of drug molecules can be predicted by QSAR (quantitative structure activity relationship) models, which overcomes the disadvantages of high cost and long cycle by employing the traditional experimental method. With the fact that the number of drug molecules with positive activity is rather fewer t...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Li GZ,Meng HH,Lu WC,Yang JY,Yang MQ

更新日期：2008-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Copy number alterations (CNAs), due to their large impact on the genome, have been an important contributing factor to oncogenesis and metastasis. Detecting genomic alterations from the shallow-sequencing data of a low-purity tumor sample remains a challenging task. RESULTS:We introduce Accucopy, a method t...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Fan X,Luo G,Huang YS

更新日期：2021-01-15 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:Recent years have seen an increased amount of natural language processing (NLP) work on full text biomedical journal publications. Much of this work is done with Open Access journal articles. Such work assumes that Open Access articles are representative of biomedical publications in general and that methods...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Verspoor K,Cohen KB,Hunter L

更新日期：2009-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Common existing phylogenetic tree visualisation tools are not able to display readable trees with more than a few thousand nodes. These existing methodologies are based in two dimensional space. RESULTS:We introduce the idea of visualising phylogenetic trees in three dimensional hyperbolic space with the Wa...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hughes T,Hyun Y,Liberles DA

更新日期：2004-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Temporal gene expression profiles characterize the time-dynamics of expression of specific genes and are increasingly collected in current gene expression experiments. In the analysis of experiments where gene expression is obtained over the life cycle, it is of interest to relate temporal patterns of gene e...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Müller HG,Chiou JM,Leng X

更新日期：2008-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:De Bruijn graphs are key data structures for the analysis of next-generation sequencing data. They efficiently represent the overlap between reads and hence, also the underlying genome sequence. However, sequencing errors and repeated subsequences render the identification of the true underlying sequence dif...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Steyaert A,Audenaert P,Fostier J

更新日期：2020-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Elucidating gene regulatory networks is crucial for understanding normal cell physiology and complex pathologic phenotypes. Existing computational methods for the genome-wide "reverse engineering" of such networks have been successful only for lower eukaryotes with simple genomes. Here we present ARACNE, a n...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Margolin AA,Nemenman I,Basso K,Wiggins C,Stolovitzky G,Dalla Favera R,Califano A

更新日期：2006-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Set comparisons permeate a large number of data analysis workflows, in particular workflows in biological sciences. Venn diagrams are frequently employed for such analysis but current tools are limited. RESULTS:We have developed InteractiVenn, a more flexible tool for interacting with Venn diagrams includin...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Heberle H,Meirelles GV,da Silva FR,Telles GP,Minghim R

更新日期：2015-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Compound Heterozygosity (CH) in classical genetics is the presence of two different recessive mutations at a particular gene locus. A relaxed form of CH alleles may account for an essential proportion of the missing heritability, i.e. heritability of phenotypes so far not accounted for by single genetic vari...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhong K,Karssen LC,Kayser M,Liu F

更新日期：2016-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Histopathology image analysis is a gold standard for cancer recognition and diagnosis. Automatic analysis of histopathology images can help pathologists diagnose tumor and cancer subtypes, alleviating the workload of pathologists. There are two basic types of tasks in digital histopathology image analysis: i...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Xu Y,Jia Z,Wang LB,Ai Y,Zhang F,Lai M,Chang EI

更新日期：2017-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) mapping is often used to identify genetic loci and candidate genes correlated with traits. Although usually a group of genes affect complex traits, genes in most eQTL mapping methods are considered as independent. Recently, some eQTL mapping methods have accounted fo...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wang Y,Richard R,Pan Y

更新日期：2016-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In omics data integration studies, it is common, for a variety of reasons, for some individuals to not be present in all data tables. Missing row values are challenging to deal with because most statistical methods cannot be directly applied to incomplete datasets. To overcome this issue, we propose a multip...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Voillet V,Besse P,Liaubet L,San Cristobal M,González I

更新日期：2016-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Numerous tools have been developed to predict the fitness effects (i.e., neutral, deleterious, or beneficial) of genetic variants on corresponding proteins. However, prediction in terms of whether a variant causes the variant bearing protein to lose the original function or gain new function is also needed f...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Liu M,Watson LT,Zhang L

更新日期：2015-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein structure comparison is a fundamental task in structural biology. While the number of known protein structures has grown rapidly over the last decade, searching a large database of protein structures is still relatively slow using existing methods. There is a need for new techniques which can rapidly...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhang L,Bailey J,Konagurthu AS,Ramamohanarao K

更新日期：2010-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drug discovery is the process through which potential new medicines are identified. High-throughput screening and computer-aided drug discovery/design are the two main drug discovery methods for now, which have successfully discovered a series of drugs. However, development of new drugs is still an extremely...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sang S,Yang Z,Wang L,Liu X,Lin H,Wang J

更新日期：2018-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The availability of multiple, essentially complete genome sequences of prokaryotes and eukaryotes spurred both the demand and the opportunity for the construction of an evolutionary classification of genes from these genomes. Such a classification system based on orthologous relationships between genes appea...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Tatusov RL,Fedorova ND,Jackson JD,Jacobs AR,Kiryutin B,Koonin EV,Krylov DM,Mazumder R,Mekhedov SL,Nikolskaya AN,Rao BS,Smirnov S,Sverdlov AV,Vasudevan S,Wolf YI,Yin JJ,Natale DA

更新日期：2003-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Proteins are dynamic molecules with motions ranging from picoseconds to longer than seconds. Many protein functions, however, appear to occur on the micro to millisecond timescale and therefore there has been intense research of the importance of these motions in catalysis and molecular interactions. Nuclear...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bieri M,Gooley PR

更新日期：2011-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bistability and ability to switch between two stable states is the hallmark of cellular responses. Cellular signaling pathways often contain bistable switches that regulate the transmission of the extracellular information to the nucleus where important biological functions are executed. RESULTS:In this wor...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Arkun Y

更新日期：2019-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multiple data-analytic methods have been proposed for evaluating gene-expression levels in specific biological pathways, assessing differential expression associated with a binary phenotype. Following Goeman and Bühlmann's recent review, we compared statistical performance of three methods, namely Global Tes...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Liu Q,Dinu I,Adewale AJ,Potter JD,Yasui Y

更新日期：2007-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mechanistic models that describe the dynamical behaviors of biochemical systems are common in computational systems biology, especially in the realm of cellular signaling. The development of families of such models, either by a single research group or by different groups working within the same area, presen...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wenskovitch JE Jr,Harris LA,Tapia JJ,Faeder JR,Marai GE

更新日期：2014-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Elevated sequencing error rates are the most predominant obstacle in single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) detection, which is a major goal in the bulk of current studies using next-generation sequencing (NGS). Beyond routinely handled generic sources of errors, certain base calling errors relate to specific ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Allhoff M,Schönhuth A,Martin M,Costa IG,Rahmann S,Marschall T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Very often genome-wide data analysis requires the interoperation of multiple databases and analytic tools. A large number of genome databases and bioinformatics applications are available through the web, but it is difficult to automate interoperation because: 1) the platforms on which the applications run a...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： de Knikker R,Guo Y,Li JL,Kwan AK,Yip KY,Cheung DW,Cheung KH

更新日期：2004-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mammalian germ cells undergo meiosis to produce sperm or eggs, haploid cells that are primed to meet and propagate life. Meiosis is initiated by retinoic acid and meiotic prophase is the first and most complex stage of meiosis when homologous chromosomes pair to exchange genetic information. Errors in meiosi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Li Y,Ray D,Ye P

更新日期：2013-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Designing small-molecule kinase inhibitors with desirable selectivity profiles is a major challenge in drug discovery. A high-throughput screen for inhibitors of a given kinase will typically yield many compounds that inhibit more than one kinase. A series of chemical modifications are usually required befor...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Caffrey DR,Lunney EA,Moshinsky DJ

更新日期：2008-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microarray co-expression signatures are an important tool for studying gene function and relations between genes. In addition to genuine biological co-expression, correlated signals can result from technical deficiencies like hybridization of reporters with off-target transcripts. An approach that is able to...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Casneuf T,Van de Peer Y,Huber W

更新日期：2007-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Parsimony and maximum likelihood methods of phylogenetic tree estimation and parsimony methods for genome rearrangements are central to the study of genome evolution yet to date they have largely been pursued in isolation. RESULTS:We present a data structure called a history graph that offers a practical ba...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Paten B,Zerbino DR,Hickey G,Haussler D

更新日期：2014-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Blood pressure diseases have increasingly been identified as among the main factors threatening human health. How to accurately and conveniently measure blood pressure is the key to the implementation of effective prevention and control measures for blood pressure diseases. Traditional blood pressure measure...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhang B,Ren H,Huang G,Cheng Y,Hu C

更新日期：2019-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The methodologies we use both enable and help define our research. However, as experimental complexity has increased the choice of appropriate methodologies has become an increasingly difficult task. This makes it difficult to keep track of available bioinformatics software, let alone the most suitable proto...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Eales JM,Pinney JW,Stevens RD,Robertson DL

更新日期：2008-09-01 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