Detection of transposable elements by their compositional bias.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Scaffold proteins are known for being crucial regulators of various cellular functions by assembling multiple proteins involved in signaling and metabolic pathways. Identification of scaffold proteins and the study of their molecular mechanisms can open a new aspect of cellular systemic regulation and the re...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Oh K,Yi GS

更新日期：2016-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) play several roles in living cells, and computational PPI prediction is a major focus of many researchers. The three-dimensional (3D) structure and binding surface are important for the design of PPI inhibitors. Therefore, rigid body protein-protein docking calculations fo...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hayashi T,Matsuzaki Y,Yanagisawa K,Ohue M,Akiyama Y

更新日期：2018-05-08 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:Many models have been proposed to detect copy number alterations in chromosomal copy number profiles, but it is usually not obvious to decide which is most effective for a given data set. Furthermore, most methods have a smoothing parameter that determines the number of breakpoints and must be chosen using v...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hocking TD,Schleiermacher G,Janoueix-Lerosey I,Boeva V,Cappo J,Delattre O,Bach F,Vert JP

更新日期：2013-05-22 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:The spatial configuration of chromosomes is essential to various cellular processes, notably gene regulation, while architecture related alterations, such as translocations and gene fusions, are often cancer drivers. Thus, eliciting chromatin conformation is important, yet challenging due to compaction, dyna...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Segal MR,Fletez-Brant K

更新日期：2020-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Scaffolding is an important step in genome assembly that orders and orients the contigs produced by assemblers. However, repetitive regions in contigs usually prevent scaffolding from producing accurate results. How to solve the problem of repetitive regions has received a great deal of attention. In the pas...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Luo J,Lyu M,Chen R,Zhang X,Luo H,Yan C

更新日期：2019-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein subcellular localization is crucial for genome annotation, protein function prediction, and drug discovery. Determination of subcellular localization using experimental approaches is time-consuming; thus, computational approaches become highly desirable. Extensive studies of localization prediction h...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Su EC,Chiu HS,Lo A,Hwang JK,Sung TY,Hsu WL

更新日期：2007-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased emphasis on reproducibility of published research in the last few years has led to the large-scale archiving of sequencing data. While this data can, in theory, be used to reproduce results in papers, it is difficult to use in practice. We introduce a series of tools for processing and analyzing RNA-Seq data...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pimentel H,Sturmfels P,Bray N,Melsted P,Pachter L

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small ~22 nucleotide non-coding RNAs that function as post-transcriptional regulators of messenger RNA (mRNA) through base-pairing to 6-8 nucleotide long target sites, usually located within the mRNA 3' untranslated region. A common approach to validate and probe microRNA-mRNA interact...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ryan BC,Werner TS,Howard PL,Chow RL

更新日期：2016-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The development of high-throughput technologies has produced several large scale protein interaction data sets for multiple species, and significant efforts have been made to analyze the data sets in order to understand protein activities. Considering that the basic units of protein interactions are domain i...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lee H,Deng M,Sun F,Chen T

更新日期：2006-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein-protein docking is a valuable computational approach for investigating protein-protein interactions. Shape complementarity is the most basic component of a scoring function and plays an important role in protein-protein docking. Despite significant progresses, shape representation remains an open que...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Yan Y,Huang SY

更新日期：2019-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gene expression data can be analyzed by summarizing groups of individual gene expression profiles based on GO annotation information. The mean expression profile per group can then be used to identify interesting GO categories in relation to the experimental settings. However, the expression profiles present...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： De Haan JR,Piek E,van Schaik RC,de Vlieg J,Bauerschmidt S,Buydens LM,Wehrens R

更新日期：2010-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ability to confidently predict health outcomes from gene expression would catalyze a revolution in molecular diagnostics. Yet, the goal of developing actionable, robust, and reproducible predictive signatures of phenotypes such as clinical outcome has not been attained in almost any disease area. Here, w...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Smith AM,Walsh JR,Long J,Davis CB,Henstock P,Hodge MR,Maciejewski M,Mu XJ,Ra S,Zhao S,Ziemek D,Fisher CK

更新日期：2020-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Frequent pattern mining analysis applied on microarray dataset appears to be a promising strategy for identifying relationships between gene expression levels. Unfortunately, too many itemsets (co-expressed genes) are identified by this analysis method since it does not consider the importance of each gene w...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Liu YC,Cheng CP,Tseng VS

更新日期：2013-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multidimensional protein identification technology (MudPIT)-based shot-gun proteomics has been proven to be an effective platform for functional proteomics. In particular, the various sample preparation methods and bioinformatics tools can be integrated to improve the proteomics platform for applications lik...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhang Y,Liu S,Dai SY,Yuan JS

更新日期：2012-01-01 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:Many biases and spurious effects are inherent in RNA-seq technology, resulting in a non-uniform distribution of sequencing read counts for each base position in a gene. Therefore, a base-level strategy is required to model the non-uniformity. Also, the properties of sequencing read counts can be leveraged to...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Cai G,Liang S,Zheng X,Xiao F

更新日期：2017-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fluorescent and luminescent gene reporters allow us to dynamically quantify changes in molecular species concentration over time on the single cell level. The mathematical modeling of their interaction through multivariate dynamical models requires the development of effective statistical methods to calibrat...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Komorowski M,Finkenstädt B,Harper CV,Rand DA

更新日期：2009-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microarray experiments, as well as other genomic analyses, often result in large gene sets containing up to several hundred genes. The biological significance of such sets of genes is, usually, not readily apparent. Identification of the functions of the genes in the set can help highlight features of intere...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lee JS,Katari G,Sachidanandam R

更新日期：2005-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ontologies are widely used to represent knowledge in biomedicine. Systematic approaches for detecting errors and disagreements are needed for large ontologies with hundreds or thousands of terms and semantic relationships. A recent approach of defining terms using logical definitions is now increasingly bein...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Köhler S,Bauer S,Mungall CJ,Carletti G,Smith CL,Schofield P,Gkoutos GV,Robinson PN

更新日期：2011-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently, revealing the function of proteins with protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks is regarded as one of important issues in bioinformatics. With the development of experimental methods such as the yeast two-hybrid method, the data of protein interaction have been increasing extremely. Many databas...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Monji H,Koizumi S,Ozaki T,Ohkawa T

更新日期：2011-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Machine learning has been utilized to predict cancer drug response from multi-omics data generated from sensitivities of cancer cell lines to different therapeutic compounds. Here, we build machine learning models using gene expression data from patients' primary tumor tissues to predict whether a patient wi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Clayton EA,Pujol TA,McDonald JF,Qiu P

更新日期：2020-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although carbohydrates are the third major class of biological macromolecules, after proteins and DNA, there is neither a comprehensive database for carbohydrate structures nor an established universal structure encoding scheme for computational purposes. Funding for further development of the Complex Carboh...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ranzinger R,Herget S,Wetter T,von der Lieth CW

更新日期：2008-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Systems biology modeling from microarray data requires the most contemporary structural and functional array annotation. However, microarray annotations, especially for non-commercial, non-traditional biomedical model organisms, are often dated. In addition, most microarray analysis tools do not readily acce...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： van den Berg BH,Konieczka JH,McCarthy FM,Burgess SC

更新日期：2009-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The importance of biodiversity conservation has been increasing steadily due to its benefits to human beings. Recently, producing and managing biodiversity databases have become much easier because of the information technology (IT) advancement. This made the general public's participation in biodiversity co...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Paik IH,Lim J,Chun BS,Jin SD,Yu JP,Lee JW,Bhak J,Paek WK

更新日期：2009-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Analysis of cellular processes with microscopic bright field defocused imaging has the advantage of low phototoxicity and minimal sample preparation. However bright field images lack the contrast and nuclei reporting available with florescent approaches and therefore present a challenge to methods that segme...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mohamadlou H,Shope JC,Flann NS

更新日期：2014-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In many bacteria, intragenomic diversity in synonymous codon usage among genes has been reported. However, no quantitative attempt has been made to compare the diversity levels among different genomes. Here, we introduce a mean dissimilarity-based index (Dmean) for quantifying the level of diversity in synon...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Suzuki H,Saito R,Tomita M

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein crystal structures are potentially over-interpreted since they are routinely refined without any restraint on the upper limit of atomic B-factors. Consequently, some of their atoms, undetected in the electron density maps, are allowed to reach extremely large B-factors, even above 100 square Angstrom...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Carugo O

更新日期：2018-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Next (second) generation sequencing is an increasingly important tool for many areas of molecular biology, however, care must be taken when interpreting its output. Even a low error rate can cause a large number of errors due to the high number of nucleotides being sequenced. Identifying sequencing errors fr...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sleep JA,Schreiber AW,Baumann U

更新日期：2013-12-18 00:00:00