Visualising very large phylogenetic trees in three dimensional hyperbolic space.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Selective pressures at the DNA level shape genes into profiles consisting of patterns of rapidly evolving sites and sites withstanding change. These profiles remain detectable even when protein sequences become extensively diverged. A common task in molecular biology is to infer functional, structural or evo...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ndhlovu A,Hazelhurst S,Durand PM

更新日期：2015-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Computer-aided segmentation and border detection in dermoscopic images is one of the core components of diagnostic procedures and therapeutic interventions for skin cancer. Automated assessment tools for dermoscopy images have become an important research field mainly because of inter- and intra-observer var...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kockara S,Mete M,Chen B,Aydin K

更新日期：2010-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This paper presents a novel approach for Generative Anatomy Modeling Language (GAML). This approach automatically detects the geometric partitions in 3D anatomy that in turn speeds up integrated non-linear optimization model in GAML for 3D anatomy modeling with constraints (e.g. joints). This integrated non-...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Demirel D,Cetinsaya B,Halic T,Kockara S,Ahmadi S

更新日期：2019-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nearly all cellular processes involve proteins structurally rearranging to accommodate molecular partners. The energy landscape underscores the inherent nature of proteins as dynamic molecules interconverting between structures with varying energies. In principle, reconstructing a protein's energy landscape ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Morris D,Maximova T,Plaku E,Shehu A

更新日期：2019-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many readers will sympathize with the following story. You are viewing a gene sequence in Entrez, and you want to find whether it contains a particular sequence motif. You reach for the browser's "find in page" button, but those darn spaces every 10 bp get in the way. And what if the motif is on the opposite...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hu Z,Frith M,Niu T,Weng Z

更新日期：2003-01-04 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:One of the important goals in the post-genomic era is to determine the regulatory elements within the non-coding DNA of a given organism's genome. The identification of functional cis-regulatory modules has proven difficult since the component factor binding sites are small and the rules governing their arra...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Emberly E,Rajewsky N,Siggia ED

更新日期：2003-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With continuing identification of novel structured noncoding RNAs, there is an increasing need to create schematic diagrams showing the consensus features of these molecules. RNA structural diagrams are typically made either with general-purpose drawing programs like Adobe Illustrator, or with automated or i...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Weinberg Z,Breaker RR

更新日期：2011-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Two of the main objectives of the genomic and post-genomic era are to structurally and functionally annotate genomes which consists of detecting genes' position and structure, and inferring their function (as well as of other features of genomes). Structural and functional annotation both require the complex...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Gouret P,Vitiello V,Balandraud N,Gilles A,Pontarotti P,Danchin EG

更新日期：2005-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interpretation of gene expression microarray data in the light of external information on both columns and rows (experimental variables and gene annotations) facilitates the extraction of pertinent information hidden in these complex data. Biologists classically interpret genes of interest after retrieving f...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Baty F,Rüdiger J,Miglino N,Kern L,Borger P,Brutsche M

更新日期：2013-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The use of classification algorithms is becoming increasingly important for the field of computational biology. However, not only the quality of the classification, but also its biological interpretation is important. This interpretation may be eased if interacting elements can be identified and visualized, ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bornelöv S,Marillet S,Komorowski J

更新日期：2014-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The recent emergence of high-throughput automated image acquisition technologies has forever changed how cell biologists collect and analyze data. Historically, the interpretation of cellular phenotypes in different experimental conditions has been dependent upon the expert opinions of well-trained biologist...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Yin Z,Zhou X,Bakal C,Li F,Sun Y,Perrimon N,Wong ST

更新日期：2008-06-05 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:The abundant data available for protein interaction networks have not yet been fully understood. New types of analyses are needed to reveal organizational principles of these networks to investigate the details of functional and regulatory clusters of proteins. RESULTS:In the present work, individual cluste...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sen TZ,Kloczkowski A,Jernigan RL

更新日期：2006-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over the last two decades, an innovative technology called Tissue Microarray (TMA), which combines multi-tissue and DNA microarray concepts, has been widely used in the field of histology. It consists of a collection of several (up to 1000 or more) tissue samples that are assembled onto a single support - ty...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Nguyen HN,Paveau V,Cauchois C,Kervrann C

更新日期：2018-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many statistical methods have been proposed to identify disease biomarkers from gene expression profiles. However, from gene expression profile data alone, statistical methods often fail to identify biologically meaningful biomarkers related to a specific disease under study. In this paper, we develop a nove...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chen L,Xuan J,Wang C,Shih IeM,Wang Y,Zhang Z,Hoffman E,Clarke R

更新日期：2008-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Atomic details of protein-DNA complexes can provide insightful information for better understanding of the function and binding specificity of DNA binding proteins. In addition to experimental methods for solving protein-DNA complex structures, protein-DNA docking can be used to predict native or near-native...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Corona RI,Sudarshan S,Aluru S,Guo JT

更新日期：2018-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biological sequences play a major role in molecular and computational biology. They are studied as information-bearing entities that make up DNA, RNA or proteins. The Sequence Ontology, which is part of the OBO Foundry, contains descriptions and definitions of sequences and their properties. Yet the most bas...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hoehndorf R,Kelso J,Herre H

更新日期：2009-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The challenge of classifying cortical interneurons is yet to be solved. Data-driven classification into established morphological types may provide insight and practical value. RESULTS:We trained models using 217 high-quality morphologies of rat somatosensory neocortex interneurons reconstructed by a single...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mihaljević B,Larrañaga P,Benavides-Piccione R,Hill S,DeFelipe J,Bielza C

更新日期：2018-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although it is not difficult for state-of-the-art gene finders to identify coding regions in prokaryotic genomes, exact prediction of the corresponding translation initiation sites (TIS) is still a challenging problem. Recently a number of post-processing tools have been proposed for improving the annotation...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Tech M,Meinicke P

更新日期：2006-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The advance of next generation sequencing enables higher throughput with lower price, and as the basic of high-throughput sequencing data analysis, variant calling is widely used in disease research, clinical treatment and medicine research. However, current mainstream variant caller tools have a serious pro...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Xiao A,Wu Z,Dong S

更新日期：2019-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dynamic programming algorithms provide exact solutions to many problems in computational biology, such as sequence alignment, RNA folding, hidden Markov models (HMMs), and scoring of phylogenetic trees. Structurally analogous algorithms compute optimal solutions, evaluate score distributions, and perform sto...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： zu Siederdissen CH,Prohaska SJ,Stadler PF

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Heart disease (HD) is one of the most common diseases nowadays, and an early diagnosis of such a disease is a crucial task for many health care providers to prevent their patients for such a disease and to save lives. In this paper, a comparative analysis of different classifiers was performed for the classi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Almustafa KM

更新日期：2020-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Post-transcriptional regulation is a complex mechanism that plays a central role in defining multiple cellular identities starting from a common genome. Modifications in the length of 3'UTRs have been found to play an important role in this context, since alternative 3' UTRs could lead to differences for exa...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Grassi E,Mariella E,Lembo A,Molineris I,Provero P

更新日期：2016-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We establish that the occurrence of protein folds among genomes can be accurately described with a Weibull function. Systems which exhibit Weibull character can be interpreted with reliability theory commonly used in engineering analysis. For instance, Weibull distributions are widely used in reliability, ma...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Cherkasov A,Ho Sui SJ,Brunham RC,Jones SJ

更新日期：2004-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Periodic phenomena are widespread in biology. The problem of finding periodicity in biological time series can be viewed as a multiple hypothesis testing of the spectral content of a given time series. The exact noise characteristics are unknown in many bioinformatics applications. Furthermore, the observed ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ahdesmäki M,Lähdesmäki H,Pearson R,Huttunen H,Yli-Harja O

更新日期：2005-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein solvent accessibility prediction is a pivotal intermediate step towards modeling protein tertiary structures directly from one-dimensional sequences. It also plays an important part in identifying protein folds and domains. Although some methods have been presented to the protein solvent accessibilit...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Fan C,Liu D,Huang R,Chen Z,Deng L

更新日期：2016-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many centrality measures have been proposed to mine and characterize the correlations between network topological properties and protein essentiality. However, most of them show limited prediction accuracy, and the number of common predicted essential proteins by different methods is very small. RESULTS:In ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhang X,Xiao W,Acencio ML,Lemke N,Wang X

更新日期：2016-08-25 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:XHMM is a widely used tool for copy-number variant (CNV) discovery from whole exome sequencing data but can require hours to days to run for large cohorts. A more scalable implementation would reduce the need for specialized computational resources and enable increased exploration of the configuration parame...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Linderman MD,Chia D,Wallace F,Nothaft FA

更新日期：2019-10-11 00:00:00