Visualization methods for statistical analysis of microarray clusters.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The development of high-throughput sequencing and analysis has accelerated multi-omics studies of thousands of microbial species, metagenomes, and infectious disease pathogens. Omics studies are enabling genotype-phenotype association studies which identify genetic determinants of pathogen virulence and drug...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Singh I,Kuscuoglu M,Harkins DM,Sutton G,Fouts DE,Nelson KE

更新日期：2019-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One of the main goals in cancer studies including high-throughput microRNA (miRNA) and mRNA data is to find and assess prognostic signatures capable of predicting clinical outcome. Both mRNA and miRNA expression changes in cancer diseases are described to reflect clinical characteristics like staging and pro...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Gade S,Porzelius C,Fälth M,Brase JC,Wuttig D,Kuner R,Binder H,Sültmann H,Beissbarth T

更新日期：2011-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding the community structure of microbes is typically accomplished by sequencing 16S ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA) genes. These community data can be represented by constructing a phylogenetic tree and comparing it with other samples using statistical methods. However, owing to high computational complex...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mori H,Maruyama F,Kurokawa K

更新日期：2010-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Metabolomics experiments using Mass Spectrometry (MS) technology measure the mass to charge ratio (m/z) and intensity of ionised molecules in crude extracts of complex biological samples to generate high dimensional metabolite 'fingerprint' or metabolite 'profile' data. High resolution MS instruments perform...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Draper J,Enot DP,Parker D,Beckmann M,Snowdon S,Lin W,Zubair H

更新日期：2009-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Because loops connect regular secondary structures, analysis of the former depends directly on the definition of the latter. The numerous assignment methods, however, can offer different definitions. In a previous study, we defined a structural alphabet composed of 16 average protein fragments, which we call...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Fourrier L,Benros C,de Brevern AG

更新日期：2004-05-12 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:Tight clustering arose recently from a desire to obtain tighter and potentially more informative clusters in gene expression studies. Scattered genes with relatively loose correlations should be excluded from the clusters. However, in the literature there is little work dedicated to this area of research. On...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Yuan Y,Li CT,Wilson R

更新日期：2008-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification of homologous genes is fundamental to comparative genomics, functional genomics and phylogenomics. Extensive public homology databases are of great value for investigating homology but need to be continually updated to incorporate new sequences. As new sequences are rapidly being generated, th...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sheikhizadeh Anari S,de Ridder D,Schranz ME,Smit S

更新日期：2018-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phosphorylated histone H2AX, also known as γH2AX, forms μm-sized nuclear foci at the sites of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) induced by ionizing radiation and other agents. Due to their specificity and sensitivity, γH2AX immunoassays have become the gold standard for studying DSB induction and repair. One o...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Memmel S,Sisario D,Zimmermann H,Sauer M,Sukhorukov VL,Djuzenova CS,Flentje M

更新日期：2020-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accurately prioritizing candidate disease genes is an important and challenging problem. Various network-based methods have been developed to predict potential disease genes by utilizing the disease similarity network and molecular networks such as protein interaction or gene co-expression networks. Although...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ni J,Koyuturk M,Tong H,Haines J,Xu R,Zhang X

更新日期：2016-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-throughput screens comparing growth rates of arrays of distinct micro-organism cultures on solid agar are useful, rapid methods of quantifying genetic interactions. Growth rate is an informative phenotype which can be estimated by measuring cell densities at one or more times after inoculation. Precise ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lawless C,Wilkinson DJ,Young A,Addinall SG,Lydall DA

更新日期：2010-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The RNA polymerase NS5B of Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a well-characterised drug target with an active site and four allosteric binding sites. This work presents a workflow for virtual screening and its application to Drug Bank screening targeting the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) RNA polymerase non-nucleoside binding sites....

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Elhefnawi M,ElGamacy M,Fares M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The definition of a distance measure plays a key role in the evaluation of different clustering solutions of gene expression profiles. In this empirical study we compare different clustering solutions when using the Mutual Information (MI) measure versus the use of the well known Euclidean distance and Pears...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Priness I,Maimon O,Ben-Gal I

更新日期：2007-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accurate annotation of translation initiation sites (TISs) is essential for understanding the translation initiation mechanism. However, the reliability of TIS annotation in widely used databases such as RefSeq is uncertain due to the lack of experimental benchmarks. RESULTS:Based on a homogeneity assumptio...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hu GQ,Zheng X,Ju LN,Zhu H,She ZS

更新日期：2008-03-25 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:Molecular recognition in proteins occurs due to appropriate arrangements of physical, chemical, and geometric properties of an atomic surface. Similar surface regions should create similar binding interfaces. Effective methods for comparing surface regions can be used in identifying similar regions, and to p...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Cipriano GM,Phillips GN Jr,Gleicher M

更新日期：2012-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The creation of a complete genome-wide map of transcription factor binding sites is essential for understanding gene regulatory networks in vivo. However, current prediction methods generally rely on statistical models that imperfectly model transcription factor binding. Generation of new prediction methods ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hill JT,Anderson KR,Mastracci TL,Kaestner KH,Sussel L

更新日期：2011-02-25 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:Modules of interacting components arranged in specific network topologies have evolved to perform a diverse array of cellular functions. For a network with a constant topological structure, its function within a cell may still be tuned by changing the number of instances of a particular component (e.g., gene...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Shah NA,Sarkar CA

更新日期：2019-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bioluminescent proteins (BLPs) widely exist in many living organisms. As BLPs are featured by the capability of emitting lights, they can be served as biomarkers and easily detected in biomedical research, such as gene expression analysis and signal transduction pathways. Therefore, accurate identification o...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhang J,Chai H,Yang G,Ma Z

更新日期：2017-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A standard procedure in many areas of bioinformatics is to use a multiple sequence alignment (MSA) as the basis for various types of homology-based inference. Applications include 3D structure modelling, protein functional annotation, prediction of molecular interactions, etc. These applications, however sop...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Vanhoutreve R,Kress A,Legrand B,Gass H,Poch O,Thompson JD

更新日期：2016-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-throughput sequencing technologies, such as the Illumina Genome Analyzer, are powerful new tools for investigating a wide range of biological and medical questions. Statistical and computational methods are key for drawing meaningful and accurate conclusions from the massive and complex datasets generat...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bullard JH,Purdom E,Hansen KD,Dudoit S

更新日期：2010-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The landscape of biological and biomedical research is being changed rapidly with the invention of microarrays which enables simultaneous view on the transcription levels of a huge number of genes across different experimental conditions or time points. Using microarray data sets, clustering algorithms have ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Maulik U,Mukhopadhyay A,Bandyopadhyay S

更新日期：2009-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Following last year's computational vaccinology workshop in Shanghai, China, the third ISV Pre-conference Computational Vaccinology Workshop (ICoVax 2013) was held in Barcelona, Spain. ICoVax 2013 provided an international platform for the attendees to showcase their research and discuss problems and solutions in the ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： De Groot AS,De Groot P,He Y

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Detection of genomic DNA copy number variations (CNVs) can provide a complete and more comprehensive view of human disease. It is interesting to identify and represent relevant CNVs from a genome-wide data due to high data volume and the complexity of interactions. RESULTS:In this paper, we incorporate the ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Liu Y,Lee YF,Ng MK

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:RNA sequencing has become an increasingly affordable way to profile gene expression patterns. Here we introduce a workflow implementing several open-source softwares that can be run on a high performance computing environment. RESULTS:Developed as a tool by the Bioinformatics Shared Resource Group (BISR) at...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Gadepalli VS,Ozer HG,Yilmaz AS,Pietrzak M,Webb A

更新日期：2019-12-20 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:Recent studies have shown that copy number variations (CNVs) are frequent in higher eukaryotes and associated with a substantial portion of inherited and acquired risk for various human diseases. The increasing availability of high-resolution genome surveillance platforms provides opportunity for rapidly ass...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Gai X,Perin JC,Murphy K,O'Hara R,D'arcy M,Wenocur A,Xie HM,Rappaport EF,Shaikh TH,White PS

更新日期：2010-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The rate of protein structures being deposited in the Protein Data Bank surpasses the capacity to experimentally characterise them and therefore computational methods to analyse these structures have become increasingly important. Identifying the region of the protein most likely to be involved in function i...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bray T,Chan P,Bougouffa S,Greaves R,Doig AJ,Warwicker J

更新日期：2009-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Predicting protein function has become increasingly demanding in the era of next generation sequencing technology. The task to assign a curator-reviewed function to every single sequence is impracticable. Bioinformatics tools, easy to use and able to provide automatic and reliable annotations at a genomic sc...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Falda M,Toppo S,Pescarolo A,Lavezzo E,Di Camillo B,Facchinetti A,Cilia E,Velasco R,Fontana P

更新日期：2012-03-28 00:00:00