Generating confidence intervals on biological networks.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein function is closely intertwined with protein structure. Discovery of meaningful structure-function relationships is of utmost importance in protein biochemistry and has led to creation of high-quality, manually curated classification databases, such as the gold-standard SCOP (Structural Classificatio...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Asarnow D,Singh R

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Computational gene finding algorithms have proven their robustness in identifying genes in complete genomes. However, metagenomic sequencing has presented new challenges due to the incomplete and fragmented nature of the data. During the last few years, attempts have been made to extract complete and incompl...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： El Allali A,Rose JR

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is an aggressive epithelial tumor which shows very poor prognosis and high rate of recurrence, representing an urgent problem for public healthcare. MicroRNAs (miRNAs/miRs) are a class of small, non-coding RNAs that attract great attention because of their role in regulation of...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Del Vecchio F,Gallo F,Di Marco A,Mastroiaco V,Caianiello P,Zazzeroni F,Alesse E,Tessitore A

更新日期：2015-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Visualization tools for deep learning models typically focus on discovering key input features without considering how such low level features are combined in intermediate layers to make decisions. Moreover, many of these methods examine a network's response to specific input examples that may be insufficien...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Liu G,Zeng H,Gifford DK

更新日期：2019-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To understand the evolutionary role of Lateral Gene Transfer (LGT), accurate methods are needed to identify transferred genes and infer their timing of acquisition. Phylogenetic methods are particularly promising for this purpose, but the reconciliation of a gene tree with a reference (species) tree is compu...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Abby SS,Tannier E,Gouy M,Daubin V

更新日期：2010-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Similarity inference, one of the main bioinformatics tasks, has to face an exponential growth of the biological data. A classical approach used to cope with this data flow involves heuristics with large seed indexes. In order to speed up this technique, the index can be enhanced by storing additional informa...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Peterlongo P,Noé L,Lavenier D,Nguyen VH,Kucherov G,Giraud M

更新日期：2008-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The lack of sufficient training data is the limiting factor for many Machine Learning applications in Computational Biology. If data is available for several different but related problem domains, Multitask Learning algorithms can be used to learn a model based on all available information. In Bioinformatics...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Widmer C,Toussaint NC,Altun Y,Rätsch G

更新日期：2010-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Throughout the metazoan lineage, typically gonadal expressed Piwi proteins and their guiding piRNAs (~26-32nt in length) form a protective mechanism of RNA interference directed against the propagation of transposable elements (TEs). Most piRNAs are generated from genomic piRNA clusters. Annotation of experi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Rosenkranz D,Zischler H

更新日期：2012-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Bioinformatics Resource Manager (BRM) is a web-based tool developed to facilitate identifier conversion and data integration for Homo sapiens (human), Mus musculus (mouse), Rattus norvegicus (rat), Danio rerio (zebrafish), and Macaca mulatta (macaque), as well as perform orthologous conversions among the...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Brown J,Phillips AR,Lewis DA,Mans MA,Chang Y,Tanguay RL,Peterson ES,Waters KM,Tilton SC

更新日期：2019-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aberrant expression of microRNAs is closely connected to the occurrence and development of a great deal of human diseases. To study human diseases, numerous effective computational models that are valuable and meaningful have been presented by researchers. RESULTS:Here, we present a computational framew...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Gao Z,Wang YT,Wu QW,Ni JC,Zheng CH

更新日期：2020-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In template-based modeling when using a single template, inter-atomic distances of an unknown protein structure are assumed to be distributed by Gaussian probability density functions, whose center peaks are located at the distances between corresponding atoms in the template structure. The width of the Gaus...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lee J,Lee K,Joung I,Joo K,Brooks BR,Lee J

更新日期：2015-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Cell Ontology (CL) is an ontology for the representation of in vivo cell types. As biological ontologies such as the CL grow in complexity, they become increasingly difficult to use and maintain. By making the information in the ontology computable, we can use automated reasoners to detect errors and ass...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Meehan TF,Masci AM,Abdulla A,Cowell LG,Blake JA,Mungall CJ,Diehl AD

更新日期：2011-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many of solved tertiary structures of unknown functions do not have global sequence and structural similarities to proteins of known function. Often functional clues of unknown proteins can be obtained by predicting small ligand molecules that bind to the proteins. METHODS:In our previous work, we have deve...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sael L,Kihara D

更新日期：2012-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Decreasing costs of DNA sequencing have made prokaryotic draft genome sequences increasingly common. A contig scaffold is an ordering of contigs in the correct orientation. A scaffold can help genome comparisons and guide gap closure efforts. One popular technique for obtaining contig scaffolds is to map con...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Dias Z,Dias U,Setubal JC

更新日期：2012-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:New "next generation" DNA sequencing technologies offer individual researchers the ability to rapidly generate large amounts of genome sequence data at dramatically reduced costs. As a result, a need has arisen for new software tools for storage, management and analysis of genome sequence data. Although bioi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Duncan S,Sirkanungo R,Miller L,Phillips GJ

更新日期：2010-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Semantic Web technologies offer a promising framework for integration of disparate biomedical data. In this paper we present the semantic information integration platform under development at the Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences (CCTS) at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHSC-H)...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mirhaji P,Zhu M,Vagnoni M,Bernstam EV,Zhang J,Smith JW

更新日期：2009-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein sequence alignment analyses have become a crucial step for many bioinformatics studies during the past decades. Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) and pair-wise sequence alignment (PSA) are two major approaches in sequence alignment. Former benchmark studies revealed drawbacks of MSA methods on nucleo...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wang Y,Wu H,Cai Y

更新日期：2018-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Leishmaniasis is a virulent parasitic infection that causes a worldwide disease burden. Most treatments have toxic side-effects and efficacy has decreased due to the emergence of resistant strains. The outlook is worsened by the absence of promising drug targets for this disease. We have taken a computationa...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Flórez AF,Park D,Bhak J,Kim BC,Kuchinsky A,Morris JH,Espinosa J,Muskus C

更新日期：2010-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With the advent of Next-Generation Sequencing technologies (NGS), a large amount of short read data has been generated. If a reference genome is not available, the assembly of a template sequence is usually challenging because of repeats and the short length of reads. When NGS reads cannot be mapped onto a r...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Comin M,Schimd M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inferring gene regulatory networks (GRNs) from gene expression data remains a challenge in system biology. In past decade, numerous methods have been developed for the inference of GRNs. It remains a challenge due to the fact that the data is noisy and high dimensional, and there exists a large number of pot...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Che D,Guo S,Jiang Q,Chen L

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Automated protein function prediction methods are needed to keep pace with high-throughput sequencing. With the existence of many programs and databases for inferring different protein functions, a pipeline that properly integrates these resources will benefit from the advantages of each method. However, int...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Yu C,Zavaljevski N,Desai V,Johnson S,Stevens FJ,Reifman J

更新日期：2008-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Time course microarray profiles examine the expression of genes over a time domain. They are necessary in order to determine the complete set of genes that are dynamically expressed under given conditions, and to determine the interaction between these genes. Because of cost and resource issues, most time se...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sinha A,Markatou M

更新日期：2011-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Scientific workflows improve the process of scientific experiments by making computations explicit, underscoring data flow, and emphasizing the participation of humans in the process when intuition and human reasoning are required. Workflows for experiments also highlight transitions among experimental phase...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Verdi KK,Ellis HJ,Gryk MR

更新日期：2007-01-30 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:The analysis of mass spectra suggests that the existence of derivative peaks is strongly dependent on the intensity of the primary peaks. Peak selection from tandem mass spectrum is used to filter out noise and contaminant peaks. It is widely accepted that a valid primary peak tends to have high intensity an...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhang S,Wang Y,Bu D,Zhang H,Sun S

更新日期：2011-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Acel_2062 protein from Acidothermus cellulolyticus is a protein of unknown function. Initial sequence analysis predicted that it was a metallopeptidase from the presence of a motif conserved amongst the Asp-zincins, which are peptidases that contain a single, catalytic zinc ion ligated by the histidines ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Trame CB,Chang Y,Axelrod HL,Eberhardt RY,Coggill P,Punta M,Rawlings ND

更新日期：2014-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) is the technique of choice for quantifying gene expression. While the technique itself is well established, approaches for the analysis of qPCR data continue to improve. RESULTS:Here we expand on the common base method to develop procedures for testing linear re...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ganger MT,Dietz GD,Headley P,Ewing SJ

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The detection of bias due to cryptic population structure is an important step in the evaluation of findings of genetic association studies. The standard method of measuring this bias in a genetic association study is to compare the observed median association test statistic to the expected median test stati...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pirie A,Wood A,Lush M,Tyrer J,Pharoah PD

更新日期：2015-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Joint and individual variation explained (JIVE), distinct and common simultaneous component analysis (DISCO) and O2-PLS, a two-block (X-Y) latent variable regression method with an integral OSC filter can all be used for the integrated analysis of multiple data sets and decompose them in three terms: a low(e...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： van der Kloet FM,Sebastián-León P,Conesa A,Smilde AK,Westerhuis JA

更新日期：2016-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sequence alignment is a common tool in bioinformatics and comparative genomics. It is generally assumed that multiple sequence alignment yields better results than pair wise sequence alignment, but this assumption has rarely been tested, and never with the control provided by simulation analysis. This study ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Rosenberg MS

更新日期：2005-11-23 00:00:00