Efficient computation of absent words in genomic sequences.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Metabolome analysis with GC/MS has meanwhile been established as one of the "omics" techniques. Compound identification is done by comparison of the MS data with compound libraries. Mass spectral libraries in the field of metabolomics ought to connect the relevant mass traces of the metabolites to other rele...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Thielen B,Heinen S,Schomburg D

更新日期：2009-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Membrane transport proteins (transporters) play an essential role in every living cell by transporting hydrophilic molecules across the hydrophobic membranes. While the sequences of many membrane proteins are known, their structure and function is still not well characterized and understood, owing to the imm...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Alballa M,Butler G

更新日期：2020-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many cancer genomes are extensively rearranged with highly aberrant chromosomal karyotypes. Structural and copy number variations in cancer genomes can be determined via abnormal mapping of sequenced reads to the reference genome. Recently it became possible to reconcile both of these types of large-scale va...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Aganezov S,Zban I,Aksenov V,Alexeev N,Schatz MC

更新日期：2019-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:T-cell epitopes that promiscuously bind to multiple alleles of a human leukocyte antigen (HLA) supertype are prime targets for development of vaccines and immunotherapies because they are relevant to a large proportion of the human population. The presence of clusters of promiscuous T-cell epitopes, immunolo...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhang GL,Khan AM,Srinivasan KN,Heiny A,Lee K,Kwoh CK,August JT,Brusic V

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The efficient and robust statistical analysis of the shape of plant organs of different cultivars is an important investigation issue in plant breeding and enables a robust cultivar description within the breeding progress. Laserscanning is a highly accurate and high resolution technique to acquire the 3D sh...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Heeren B,Paulus S,Goldbach H,Kuhlmann H,Mahlein AK,Rumpf M,Wirth B

更新日期：2020-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cell direct reprogramming technology has been rapidly developed with its low risk of tumor risk and avoidance of ethical issues caused by stem cells, but it is still limited to specific cell types. Direct reprogramming from an original cell to target cell type needs the cell similarity and cell specific regu...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Li L,Che D,Wang X,Zhang P,Rahman SU,Zhao J,Yu J,Tao S,Lu H,Liao M

更新日期：2019-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Whole exome sequencing (WES) has become the strategy of choice to identify a coding allelic variant for a rare human monogenic disorder. This approach is a revolution in medical genetics history, impacting both fundamental research, and diagnostic methods leading to personalized medicine. A plethora of effic...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Coutant S,Cabot C,Lefebvre A,Léonard M,Prieur-Gaston E,Campion D,Lecroq T,Dauchel H

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Two important challenges in the analysis of molecular biology information are data (multi-omic information) integration and the detection of patterns across large scale molecular networks and sequences. They are are actually coupled beause the integration of omic information may provide better means to detec...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bardozzo F,Lió P,Tagliaferri R

更新日期：2018-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increasing number of eQTL (Expression Quantitative Trait Loci) datasets facilitate genetics and systems biology research. Meta-analysis tools are in need to jointly analyze datasets of same or similar issue types to improve statistical power especially in trans-eQTL mapping. Meta-analysis framework is also n...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Di Narzo AF,Cheng H,Lu J,Hao K

更新日期：2014-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification of transcription factors (TFs) responsible for modulation of differentially expressed genes is a key step in deducing gene regulatory pathways. Most current methods identify TFs by searching for presence of DNA binding motifs in the promoter regions of co-regulated genes. However, this strateg...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Roy S,Heinrich K,Phan V,Berry MW,Homayouni R

更新日期：2011-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:RNA-Seq is revolutionizing the way transcript abundances are measured. A key challenge in transcript quantification from RNA-Seq data is the handling of reads that map to multiple genes or isoforms. This issue is particularly important for quantification with de novo transcriptome assemblies in the absence o...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Li B,Dewey CN

更新日期：2011-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:For successful protein structure prediction by comparative modeling, in addition to identifying a good template protein with known structure, obtaining an accurate sequence alignment between a query protein and a template protein is critical. It has been known that the alignment accuracy can vary significant...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lee M,Jeong CS,Kim D

更新日期：2007-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Supervised learning and many stochastic methods for predicting protein-protein interactions require both negative and positive interactions in the training data set. Unlike positive interactions, negative interactions cannot be readily obtained from interaction data, so these must be generated. In protein-pr...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kim J,Huang DS,Han K

更新日期：2009-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In quantitative proteomics, peptide mapping is a valuable approach to combine positional quantitative information with topographical and domain information of proteins. Quantitative proteomic analysis of cell surface shedding is an exemplary application area of this approach. RESULTS:We developed ImproViser...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Videm P,Gunasekaran D,Schröder B,Mayer B,Biniossek ML,Schilling O

更新日期：2014-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Homology search is still a significant step in functional analysis for genomic data. Profile Hidden Markov Model-based homology search has been widely used in protein domain analysis in many different species. In particular, with the fast accumulation of transcriptomic data of non-model species and metagenom...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Techa-Angkoon P,Sun Y,Lei J

更新日期：2017-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The availability of multiple, essentially complete genome sequences of prokaryotes and eukaryotes spurred both the demand and the opportunity for the construction of an evolutionary classification of genes from these genomes. Such a classification system based on orthologous relationships between genes appea...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Tatusov RL,Fedorova ND,Jackson JD,Jacobs AR,Kiryutin B,Koonin EV,Krylov DM,Mazumder R,Mekhedov SL,Nikolskaya AN,Rao BS,Smirnov S,Sverdlov AV,Vasudevan S,Wolf YI,Yin JJ,Natale DA

更新日期：2003-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The sequencing of many genomes and tiling arrays consisting of millions of DNA segments spanning entire genomes have made high-resolution copy number analysis possible. Microarray-based comparative genomic hybridization (array CGH) has enabled the high-resolution detection of DNA copy number aberrations. Whi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Skvortsov D,Abdueva D,Stitzer ME,Finkel SE,Tavaré S

更新日期：2007-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Viral zoonosis, the transmission of a virus from its primary vertebrate reservoir species to humans, requires ubiquitous cellular proteins known as receptor proteins. Zoonosis can occur not only through direct transmission from vertebrates to humans, but also through intermediate reservoirs or other environm...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bae SE,Son HS

更新日期：2011-04-13 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:Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) play key roles in various cellular functions. In addition, some critical inter-species interactions such as host-pathogen interactions and pathogenicity occur through PPIs. Phytopathogenic bacteria infect hosts through attachment to host tissue, enzyme secretion, exopolysa...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kim JG,Park D,Kim BC,Cho SW,Kim YT,Park YJ,Cho HJ,Park H,Kim KB,Yoon KO,Park SJ,Lee BM,Bhak J

更新日期：2008-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently there has been a lot of interest in identifying modules at the level of genetic and metabolic networks of organisms, as well as in identifying single genes and reactions that are essential for the organism. A goal of computational and systems biology is to go beyond identification towards an explana...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Samal A,Singh S,Giri V,Krishna S,Raghuram N,Jain S

更新日期：2006-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The nonparametric trend test (NPT) is well suitable for identifying the genetic variants associated with quantitative traits when the trait values do not satisfy the normal distribution assumption. If the genetic model, defined according to the mode of inheritance, is known, the NPT derived under the given g...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhang W,Li H,Li Z,Li Q

更新日期：2016-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Temporal gene expression profiles characterize the time-dynamics of expression of specific genes and are increasingly collected in current gene expression experiments. In the analysis of experiments where gene expression is obtained over the life cycle, it is of interest to relate temporal patterns of gene e...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Müller HG,Chiou JM,Leng X

更新日期：2008-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The computation of phylogenetic trees on the same set of species that are based on different orthologous genes can lead to incongruent trees. One possible explanation for this behavior are interspecific hybridization events recombining genes of different species. An important approach to analyze such events ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Albrecht B

更新日期：2015-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are single-stranded non-coding RNAs known to regulate a wide range of cellular processes by silencing the gene expression at the protein and/or mRNA levels. Computational prediction of miRNA targets is essential for elucidating the detailed functions of miRNA. However, the prediction speci...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Liu H,Yue D,Chen Y,Gao SJ,Huang Y

更新日期：2010-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mechanotransduction in bone cells plays a pivotal role in osteoblast differentiation and bone remodelling. Mechanotransduction provides the link between modulation of the extracellular matrix by mechanical load and intracellular activity. By controlling the balance between the intracellular and extracellular...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ascolani G,Skerry TM,Lacroix D,Dall'Ara E,Shuaib A

更新日期：2020-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Deep mutational scanning is a technique to estimate the impacts of mutations on a gene by using deep sequencing to count mutations in a library of variants before and after imposing a functional selection. The impacts of mutations must be inferred from changes in their counts after selection. RESULTS:I desc...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bloom JD

更新日期：2015-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In protein design, correct use of topology is among the initial and most critical feature. Meticulous selection of backbone topology aids in drastically reducing the structure search space. With ProLego, we present a server application to explore the component aspect of protein structures and provide an intu...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Khan T,Panday SK,Ghosh I

更新日期：2018-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Guide-trees are used as part of an essential heuristic to enable the calculation of multiple sequence alignments. They have been the focus of much method development but there has been little effort at determining systematically, which guide-trees, if any, give the best alignments. Some guide-tree constructi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sievers F,Hughes GM,Higgins DG

更新日期：2014-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Relative isotope abundance quantification, which can be used for peptide identification and differential peptide quantification, plays an important role in liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS)-based proteomics. However, several major issues exist in the relative isotopic quantification of peptides...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Haskins WE,Petritis K,Zhang J

更新日期：2011-03-15 00:00:00