Prediction of TF target sites based on atomistic models of protein-DNA complexes.

abstract：BACKGROUND:We previously developed GoMiner, an application that organizes lists of 'interesting' genes (for example, under-and overexpressed genes from a microarray experiment) for biological interpretation in the context of the Gene Ontology. The original version of GoMiner was oriented toward visualization and interp...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zeeberg BR,Qin H,Narasimhan S,Sunshine M,Cao H,Kane DW,Reimers M,Stephens RM,Bryant D,Burt SK,Elnekave E,Hari DM,Wynn TA,Cunningham-Rundles C,Stewart DM,Nelson D,Weinstein JN

更新日期：2005-07-05 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: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:In the last decade, techniques were established for the large scale genome-wide analysis of proteins, RNA, and metabolites, and database solutions have been developed to manage the generated data sets. The Golm Metabolome Database for metabolite data (GMD) represents one such effort to make these data broadl...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hummel J,Niemann M,Wienkoop S,Schulze W,Steinhauser D,Selbig J,Walther D,Weckwerth W

更新日期：2007-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein solvent accessibility prediction is a pivotal intermediate step towards modeling protein tertiary structures directly from one-dimensional sequences. It also plays an important part in identifying protein folds and domains. Although some methods have been presented to the protein solvent accessibilit...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Fan C,Liu D,Huang R,Chen Z,Deng L

更新日期：2016-01-11 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:Time- and dose-to-event phenotypes used in basic science and translational studies are commonly measured imprecisely or incompletely due to limitations of the experimental design or data collection schema. For example, drug-induced toxicities are not reported by the actual time or dose triggering the event, ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Li Z,Lin J,Sibley AB,Truong T,Chua KC,Jiang Y,McCarthy J,Kroetz DL,Allen A,Owzar K

更新日期：2019-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Comparative genomics has become an essential approach for identifying homologous gene candidates and their functions, and for studying genome evolution. There are many tools available for genome comparisons. Unfortunately, most of them are not applicable for the identification of unique genes and the inferen...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lu G,Jiang L,Helikar RM,Rowley TW,Zhang L,Chen X,Moriyama EN

更新日期：2006-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Orthologs inference is the starting point of most comparative genomics studies, and a plethora of methods have been designed in the last decade to address this challenging task. In this paper we focus on the problems of deciding consistency with a species tree (known or not) of a partial set of orthology/par...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Jones M,Paul C,Scornavacca C

更新日期：2016-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Copy number alterations (CNAs), due to their large impact on the genome, have been an important contributing factor to oncogenesis and metastasis. Detecting genomic alterations from the shallow-sequencing data of a low-purity tumor sample remains a challenging task. RESULTS:We introduce Accucopy, a method t...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Fan X,Luo G,Huang YS

更新日期：2021-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microsatellite (simple sequence repeat - SSR) and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers are two types of important genetic markers useful in genetic mapping and genotyping. Often, large-scale genomic research projects require high-throughput computer-assisted primer design. Numerous such web-based or ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： You FM,Huo N,Gu YQ,Luo MC,Ma Y,Hane D,Lazo GR,Dvorak J,Anderson OD

更新日期：2008-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The family of voltage-gated potassium channels comprises a functionally diverse group of membrane proteins. They help maintain and regulate the potassium ion-based component of the membrane potential and are thus central to many critical physiological processes. VKCDB (Voltage-gated potassium [K] Channel Dat...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Li B,Gallin WJ

更新日期：2004-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The biomedical literature continues to grow at a rapid pace, making the challenge of knowledge retrieval and extraction ever greater. Tools that provide a means to search and mine the full text of literature thus represent an important way by which the efficiency of these processes can be improved. RESULTS:...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Müller HM,Van Auken KM,Li Y,Sternberg PW

更新日期：2018-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The UNO/RIC Nanopore Detector provides a new way to study the binding and conformational changes of individual antibodies. Many critical questions regarding antibody function are still unresolved, questions that can be approached in a new way with the nanopore detector. RESULTS:We present evidence that diff...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Winters-Hilt S,Morales E,Amin I,Stoyanov A

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Profile-based comparison of multiple sequence alignments is a powerful methodology for the detection remote protein sequence similarity, which is essential for the inference and analysis of protein structure, function, and evolution. Accurate estimation of statistical significance of detected profile similar...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sadreyev RI,Wang Y,Grishin NV

更新日期：2009-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Targeted resequencing offers a cost-effective alternative to whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing when investigating regions known to be associated with a trait or disease. There are a number of approaches to targeted resequencing, including microfluidic PCR amplification, which may be enhanced by multipl...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wingo TS,Kotlar A,Cutler DJ

更新日期：2017-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:determining beforehand specific positions to align (anchor points) has proved valuable for the accuracy of automated multiple sequence alignment (MSA) software. This feature can be used manually to include biological expertise, or automatically, usually by pairwise similarity searches. Multiple local similar...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pitschi F,Devauchelle C,Corel E

更新日期：2010-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Global maritime trade plays an important role in the modern transportation industry. It brings significant economic profit along with bioinvasion risk. Species translocate and establish in a non-native area through ballast water and biofouling. Aiming at aquatic bioinvasion issue, people proposed various sug...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wang S,Wang C,Wang S,Ma L

更新日期：2018-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We present a model for tagging gene and protein mentions from text using the probabilistic sequence tagging framework of conditional random fields (CRFs). Conditional random fields model the probability P(t/o) of a tag sequence given an observation sequence directly, and have previously been employed success...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： McDonald R,Pereira F

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In population genetics, simulation is a fundamental tool for analyzing how basic evolutionary forces such as natural selection, recombination, and mutation shape the genetic landscape of a population. Forward simulation represents the most powerful, but, at the same time, most compute-intensive approach for ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Aberer AJ,Stamatakis A

更新日期：2013-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several studies demonstrated the feasibility of predicting bacterial antibiotic resistance phenotypes from whole-genome sequences, the prediction process usually amounting to detecting the presence of genes involved in antibiotic resistance mechanisms, or of specific mutations, previously identified from a t...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mahé P,Tournoud M

更新日期：2018-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The imputation of genotypes increases the power of genome-wide association studies. However, the imputation quality should be assessed in each particular case. Nevertheless, not all imputation softwares control the error of output, e.g., the last release of fastPHASE program (1.4.8) lacks such an option. In ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Khvorykh GV,Khrunin AV

更新日期：2020-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Single amino acid repeats make up a significant proportion in all of the proteomes that have currently been determined. They have been shown to be functionally and medically significant, and are associated with cancers and neuro-degenerative diseases such as Huntington's Chorea, where a poly-glutamine repeat...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Depledge DP,Dalby AR

更新日期：2005-08-03 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:Our knowledge of global protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks in complex organisms such as humans is hindered by technical limitations of current methods. RESULTS:On the basis of short co-occurring polypeptide regions, we developed a tool called MP-PIPE capable of predicting a global human PPI network ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Schoenrock A,Samanfar B,Pitre S,Hooshyar M,Jin K,Phillips CA,Wang H,Phanse S,Omidi K,Gui Y,Alamgir M,Wong A,Barrenäs F,Babu M,Benson M,Langston MA,Green JR,Dehne F,Golshani A

更新日期：2014-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Virtual screening methods start to be well established as effective approaches to identify hits, candidates and leads for drug discovery research. Among those, structure based virtual screening (SBVS) approaches aim at docking collections of small compounds in the target structure to identify potent compound...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Le Guilloux V,Schmidtke P,Tuffery P

更新日期：2009-06-02 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:Sequence similarity searching is a very important bioinformatics task. While Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) outperforms exact methods through its use of heuristics, the speed of the current BLAST software is suboptimal for very long queries or database sequences. There are also some shortcomings i...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Camacho C,Coulouris G,Avagyan V,Ma N,Papadopoulos J,Bealer K,Madden TL

更新日期：2009-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A recently proposed method for estimating qPCR amplification efficiency E analyzes fluorescence intensity ratios from pairs of points deemed to lie in the exponential growth region on the amplification curves for all reactions in a dilution series. This method suffers from a serious problem: The resulting ra...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Tellinghuisen J

更新日期：2020-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In recent years, successful contact prediction methods and contact-guided ab initio protein structure prediction methods have highlighted the importance of incorporating contact information into protein structure prediction methods. It is also observed that for almost all globular proteins, the quality of co...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Adhikari B,Nowotny J,Bhattacharya D,Hou J,Cheng J

更新日期：2016-12-07 00:00:00