EST Express: PHP/MySQL based automated annotation of ESTs from expression libraries.

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is useful to develop a tool that would effectively describe protein mutation matrices specifically geared towards the identification of mutations that produce either wanted or unwanted effects, such as an increase or decrease in affinity, or a predisposition towards misfolding. Here, we describe a tool wh...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： David MP,Lapid CM,Daria VR

更新日期：2008-04-28 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: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:High-throughput experiments, such as with DNA microarrays, typically result in hundreds of genes potentially relevant to the process under study, rendering the interpretation of these experiments problematic. Here, we propose and evaluate an approach to find functional associations between large numbers of g...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Jelier R,Jenster G,Dorssers LC,Wouters BJ,Hendriksen PJ,Mons B,Delwel R,Kors JA

更新日期：2007-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:GmrSD is a modification-dependent restriction endonuclease that specifically targets and cleaves glucosylated hydroxymethylcytosine (glc-HMC) modified DNA. It is encoded either as two separate single-domain GmrS and GmrD proteins or as a single protein carrying both domains. Previous studies suggested that G...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Machnicka MA,Kaminska KH,Dunin-Horkawicz S,Bujnicki JM

更新日期：2015-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Internal ribosomal entry sites (IRESs) provide alternative, cap-independent translation initiation sites in eukaryotic cells. IRES elements are important factors in viral genomes and are also useful tools for bi-cistronic expression vectors. Most existing RNA structure prediction programs are unable to deal ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wu TY,Hsieh CC,Hong JJ,Chen CY,Tsai YS

更新日期：2009-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding the relationship between gene expression changes, enzyme activity shifts, and the corresponding physiological adaptive response of organisms to environmental cues is crucial in explaining how cells cope with stress. For example, adaptation of yeast to heat shock involves a characteristic profil...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Vilaprinyo E,Alves R,Sorribas A

更新日期：2006-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aiming to understand cellular responses to different perturbations, the NIH Common Fund Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures (LINCS) program involves many institutes and laboratories working on over a thousand cell lines. The community-based Cell Line Ontology (CLO) is selected as the defa...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ong E,Xie J,Ni Z,Liu Q,Sarntivijai S,Lin Y,Cooper D,Terryn R,Stathias V,Chung C,Schürer S,He Y

更新日期：2017-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transcriptome sequencing is a powerful tool for measuring gene expression, but as well as some other technologies, various artifacts and biases affect the quantification. In order to correct some of them, several normalization approaches have emerged, differing both in the statistical strategy employed and i...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Filloux C,Cédric M,Romain P,Lionel F,Christophe K,Dominique R,Abderrahman M,Daniel P

更新日期：2014-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Two of the main objectives of the genomic and post-genomic era are to structurally and functionally annotate genomes which consists of detecting genes' position and structure, and inferring their function (as well as of other features of genomes). Structural and functional annotation both require the complex...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Gouret P,Vitiello V,Balandraud N,Gilles A,Pontarotti P,Danchin EG

更新日期：2005-08-05 00:00:00

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: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:Long-range interactions between regulatory DNA elements such as enhancers, insulators and promoters play an important role in regulating transcription. As chromatin contacts have been found throughout the human genome and in different cell types, spatial transcriptional control is now viewed as a general mec...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Rousseau M,Fraser J,Ferraiuolo MA,Dostie J,Blanchette M

更新日期：2011-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Guanine protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) constitute a eukaryotic transmembrane protein family and function as "molecular switches" in the second messenger cascades and are found in all organisms between yeast and humans. They form the single, biggest drug-target family due to their versatility of action and...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sarkar A,Kumar S,Sundar D

更新日期：2011-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein aggregation is a significant problem in the biopharmaceutical industry (protein drug stability) and is associated medically with over 40 human diseases. Although a number of computational models have been developed for predicting aggregation propensity and identifying aggregation-prone regions in pro...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Fang Y,Gao S,Tai D,Middaugh CR,Fang J

更新日期：2013-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We develop a probabilistic model for combining kernel matrices to predict the function of proteins. It extends previous approaches in that it can handle multiple labels which naturally appear in the context of protein function. RESULTS:Explicit modeling of multilabels significantly improves the capability o...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Roth V,Fischer B

更新日期：2007-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A large number of experimental studies show that the mutation and regulation of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are associated with various human diseases. Accurate prediction of lncRNA-disease associations can provide a new perspective for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. The main function of many ln...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhang Y,Ye F,Xiong D,Gao X

更新日期：2020-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microbial electrosynthesis and electro fermentation are techniques that aim to optimize microbial production of chemicals and fuels by regulating the cellular redox balance via interaction with electrodes. While the concept is known for decades major knowledge gaps remain, which make it hard to evaluate its ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kracke F,Krömer JO

更新日期：2014-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:DNA methylation changes are associated with a wide array of biological processes. Bisulfite conversion of DNA followed by high-throughput sequencing is increasingly being used to assess genome-wide methylation at single-base resolution. The relative slowness of most commonly used aligners for processing such...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ryan DP,Ehninger D

更新日期：2014-10-18 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:Alternative splicing isoforms have been reported as a new and robust class of diagnostic biomarkers. Over 95% of human genes are estimated to be alternatively spliced as a powerful means of producing functionally diverse proteins from a single gene. The emergence of next-generation sequencing technologies, e...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhang F,Deng CK,Wang M,Deng B,Barber R,Huang G

更新日期：2020-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One approach to improving the personalized treatment of cancer is to understand the cellular signaling transduction pathways that cause cancer at the level of the individual patient. In this study, we used unsupervised deep learning to learn the hierarchical structure within cancer gene expression data. Deep...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Young JD,Cai C,Lu X

更新日期：2017-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The organization of the canonical code has intrigued researches since it was first described. If we consider all codes mapping the 64 codes into 20 amino acids and one stop codon, there are more than 1.51×10(84) possible genetic codes. The main question related to the organization of the genetic code is why ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： de Oliveira LL,de Oliveira PS,Tinós R

更新日期：2015-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The identification of protein coding regions (exons) in DNA sequences using signal processing techniques is an important component of bioinformatics and biological signal processing. In this paper, a new method is presented for the identification of exonic regions in DNA sequences. This method is based on th...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Abbasi O,Rostami A,Karimian G

更新日期：2011-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Polychromatic flow cytometry is a popular technique that has wide usage in the medical sciences, especially for studying phenotypic properties of cells. The high-dimensionality of data generated by flow cytometry usually makes it difficult to visualize. The naive solution of simply plotting two-dimensional g...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Raj S,Hussain F,Husein Z,Torosdagli N,Turgut D,Deo N,Pattanaik S,Chang CJ,Jha SK

更新日期：2017-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification of expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) is an emerging area in genomic study. The task requires an integrated analysis of genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data and gene expression data, raising a new computational challenge due to the tremendous size of data. RESULTS:We ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chang HH,McGeachie M,Alterovitz G,Ramoni MF

更新日期：2010-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biological data often originate from samples containing mixtures of subpopulations, corresponding e.g. to distinct cellular phenotypes. However, identification of distinct subpopulations may be difficult if biological measurements yield distributions that are not easily separable. RESULTS:We present Multire...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Feigelman J,Theis FJ,Marr C

更新日期：2014-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Structural alignment of proteins is one of the most challenging problems in molecular biology. The tertiary structure of a protein strictly correlates with its function and computationally predicted structures are nowadays a main premise for understanding the latter. However, computationally derived 3D model...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Antczak M,Kasprzak M,Lukasiak P,Blazewicz J

更新日期：2016-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The application of high-throughput sequencing in a broad range of quantitative genomic assays (e.g., DNA-seq, ChIP-seq) has created a high demand for the analysis of large-scale read-count data. Typically, the genome is divided into tiling windows and windowed read-count data is generated for the entire geno...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wang W,Sun W,Wang W,Szatkiewicz J

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The complexity and dynamics of microbial communities are major factors in the ecology of a system. With the NGS technique, metagenomics data provides a new way to explore microbial interactions. Lotka-Volterra models, which have been widely used to infer animal interactions in dynamic systems, have recently ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Shaw GT,Pao YY,Wang D

更新日期：2016-11-25 00:00:00