Use of physiological constraints to identify quantitative design principles for gene expression in yeast adaptation to heat shock.

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:The most common method of identifying groups of functionally related genes in microarray data is to apply a clustering algorithm. However, it is impossible to determine which clustering algorithm is most appropriate to apply, and it is difficult to verify the results of any algorithm due to the lack of a gol...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hibbs MA,Dirksen NC,Li K,Troyanskaya OG

更新日期：2005-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:SSWAP (Simple Semantic Web Architecture and Protocol; pronounced "swap") is an architecture, protocol, and platform for using reasoning to semantically integrate heterogeneous disparate data and services on the web. SSWAP was developed as a hybrid semantic web services technology to overcome limitations foun...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Gessler DD,Schiltz GS,May GD,Avraham S,Town CD,Grant D,Nelson RT

更新日期：2009-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In metabolomics experiments, spectral fingerprints of metabolites with no known structural identity are detected routinely. Computer-assisted structure elucidation (CASE) has been used to determine the structural identities of unknown compounds. It is generally accepted that a single 1D NMR spectrum or mass ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Jayaseelan KV,Steinbeck C

更新日期：2014-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Great strides have been made in the effective treatment of HIV-1 with the development of second-generation protease inhibitors (PIs) that are effective against historically multi-PI-resistant HIV-1 variants. Nevertheless, mutation patterns that confer decreasing susceptibility to available PIs continue to ar...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Doherty KM,Nakka P,King BM,Rhee SY,Holmes SP,Shafer RW,Radhakrishnan ML

更新日期：2011-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phylogenetic profiles record the occurrence of homologs of genes across fully sequenced organisms. Proteins with similar profiles are typically components of protein complexes or metabolic pathways. Various existing methods measure similarity between two profiles and, hence, the likelihood that the two prote...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Cokus S,Mizutani S,Pellegrini M

更新日期：2007-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:PCR clonal artefacts originating from NGS library preparation can affect both genomic as well as RNA-Seq applications when protocols are pushed to their limits. In RNA-Seq however the artifactual reads are not easy to tell apart from normal read duplication due to natural over-sequencing of highly expressed ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sayols S,Scherzinger D,Klein H

更新日期：2016-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Various computer-based methods exist for the detection and quantification of protein spots in two dimensional gel electrophoresis images. Area-based methods are commonly used for spot quantification: an area is assigned to each spot and the sum of the pixel intensities in that area, the so-called volume, is ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Brauner JM,Groemer TW,Stroebel A,Grosse-Holz S,Oberstein T,Wiltfang J,Kornhuber J,Maler JM

更新日期：2014-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The evolutionary history of genes serves as a cornerstone of contemporary biology. Most conserved sequences in mammalian genomes don't code for proteins, yielding a need to infer evolutionary history of sequences irrespective of what kind of functional element they may encode. Thus, sequence-, as opposed to ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Gao K,Miller J

更新日期：2020-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Molecular biology (MB) is a dynamic research domain that benefits greatly from the use of modern software technology in preparing experiments, analyzing acquired data, and even performing "in-silico" analyses. As ever new findings change the face of this domain, software for MB has to be sufficiently flexibl...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Busch N,Wedemann G

更新日期：2009-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The detection of genomic copy number alterations (CNA) in cancer based on SNP arrays requires methods that take into account tumour specific factors such as normal cell contamination and tumour heterogeneity. A number of tools have been recently developed but their performance needs yet to be thoroughly asse...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mosén-Ansorena D,Aransay AM,Rodríguez-Ezpeleta N

更新日期：2012-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Analysis of expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) aims to identify the genetic loci associated with the expression level of genes. Penalized regression with a proper penalty is suitable for the high-dimensional biological data. Its performance should be enhanced when we incorporate biological knowledge o...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wang W,Zhang X

更新日期：2011-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since RNA molecules regulate genes and control alternative splicing by allostery, it is important to develop algorithms to predict RNA conformational switches. Some tools, such as paRNAss, RNAshapes and RNAbor, can be used to predict potential conformational switches; nevertheless, no existent tool can detec...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Clote P,Lou F,Lorenz WA

更新日期：2012-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While technological advances have made it possible to profile the immune system at high resolution, translating high-throughput data into knowledge of immune mechanisms has been challenged by the complexity of the interactions underlying immune processes. Tools to explore the immune network are critical for ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Atallah MB,Tandon V,Hiam KJ,Boyce H,Hori M,Atallah W,Spitzer MH,Engleman E,Mallick P

更新日期：2020-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cross-platform analysis of gene express data requires multiple, intricate processes at different layers with various platforms. However, existing tools handle only a single platform and are not flexible enough to support custom changes, which arise from the new statistical methods, updated versions of refere...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kim J,Patel K,Jung H,Kuo WP,Ohno-Machado L

更新日期：2011-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identifying drug-target interaction is a key element in drug discovery. In silico prediction of drug-target interaction can speed up the process of identifying unknown interactions between drugs and target proteins. In recent studies, handcrafted features, similarity metrics and machine learning methods have...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Eslami Manoochehri H,Nourani M

更新日期：2020-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Automatic quantification of neuronal morphology from images of fluorescence microscopy plays an increasingly important role in high-content screenings. However, there exist very few freeware tools and methods which provide automatic neuronal morphology quantification for pharmacological discovery. RESULTS:T...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ho SY,Chao CY,Huang HL,Chiu TW,Charoenkwan P,Hwang E

更新日期：2011-06-08 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:Abruptness of pigment patterns at the periphery of a skin lesion is one of the most important dermoscopic features for detection of malignancy. In current clinical setting, abrupt cutoff of a skin lesion determined by an examination of a dermatologist. This process is subjective, nonquantitative, and error-p...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Erol R,Bayraktar M,Kockara S,Kaya S,Halic T

更新日期：2017-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Computational discovery of microRNAs (miRNA) is based on pre-determined sets of features from miRNA precursors (pre-miRNA). Some feature sets are composed of sequence-structure patterns commonly found in pre-miRNAs, while others are a combination of more sophisticated RNA features. In this work, we analyze t...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lopes Ide O,Schliep A,de Carvalho AC

更新日期：2014-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The process of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is believed to be widespread in Bacteria and Archaea, but little comparative data is available addressing its occurrence in complete microbial genomes. Collection of high-quality, automated HGT prediction data based on phylogenetic evidence has previously been im...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Podell S,Gaasterland T,Allen EE

更新日期：2008-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transposable elements (TEs) are DNA sequences able to mobilize themselves and to increase their copy-number in the host genome. In the past, they have been considered mainly selfish DNA without evident functions. Nevertheless, currently they are believed to have been extensively involved in the evolution of ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Spirito G,Mangoni D,Sanges R,Gustincich S

更新日期：2019-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In mass spectrometry (MS) based proteomic data analysis, peak detection is an essential step for subsequent analysis. Recently, there has been significant progress in the development of various peak detection algorithms. However, neither a comprehensive survey nor an experimental comparison of these algorith...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Yang C,He Z,Yu W

更新日期：2009-01-06 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:Protein-DNA interactions are important for many cellular processes, however structural knowledge for a large fraction of known and putative complexes is still lacking. Computational docking methods aim at the prediction of complex architecture given detailed structures of its constituents. They are becoming ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Setny P,Bahadur RP,Zacharias M

更新日期：2012-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biological data have traditionally been stored and made publicly available through a variety of on-line databases, whereas biological knowledge has traditionally been found in the printed literature. With journals now on-line and providing an increasing amount of open access content, often free of copyright ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Prlić A,Martinez MA,Dimitropoulos D,Beran B,Yukich BT,Rose PW,Bourne PE,Fink JL

更新日期：2010-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (GC × GC-MS) is a powerful technique which has gained increasing attention over the last two decades. The GC × GC-MS provides much increased separation capacity, chemical selectivity and sensitivity for complex sample analysis an...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kim S,Koo I,Fang A,Zhang X

更新日期：2011-06-15 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:Integrating data from multiple global assays and curated databases is essential to understand the spatio-temporal interactions within cells. Different experiments measure cellular processes at various widths and depths, while databases contain biological information based on established facts or published da...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhang Y,Xuan J,de los Reyes BG,Clarke R,Ressom HW

更新日期：2008-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most gene finders score candidate gene models with state-based methods, typically HMMs, by combining local properties (coding potential, splice donor and acceptor patterns, etc). Competing models with similar state-based scores may be distinguishable with additional information. In particular, functional and...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Liu Q,Crammer K,Pereira FC,Roos DS

更新日期：2008-10-14 00:00:00