A Web-based and Grid-enabled dChip version for the analysis of large sets of gene expression data.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The challenge of classifying cortical interneurons is yet to be solved. Data-driven classification into established morphological types may provide insight and practical value. RESULTS:We trained models using 217 high-quality morphologies of rat somatosensory neocortex interneurons reconstructed by a single...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mihaljević B,Larrañaga P,Benavides-Piccione R,Hill S,DeFelipe J,Bielza C

更新日期：2018-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many methods for species tree inference require data from a sufficiently large sample of genomic loci in order to produce accurate estimates. However, few studies have attempted to use analytical theory to quantify "sufficiently large". RESULTS:Using the multispecies coalescent model, we report a general an...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Uricchio LH,Warnow T,Rosenberg NA

更新日期：2016-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is possible to predict whether a tuberculosis (TB) patient will fail to respond to specific antibiotics by sequencing the genome of the infecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) and observing whether the pathogen carries specific mutations at drug-resistance sites. This advancement has led to the collati...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ngo TM,Teo YY

更新日期：2019-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Next-generation sequencing technologies allow researchers to obtain millions of sequence reads in a single experiment. One important use of the technology is the sequencing of small non-coding regulatory RNAs and the identification of the genomic locales from which they originate. Currently, there is a pauci...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： MacLean D,Moulton V,Studholme DJ

更新日期：2010-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A metagenomic sample is a set of DNA fragments, randomly extracted from multiple cells in an environment, belonging to distinct, often unknown species. Unsupervised metagenomic clustering aims at partitioning a metagenomic sample into sets that approximate taxonomic units, without using reference genomes. Si...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Alanko J,Cunial F,Belazzougui D,Mäkinen V

更新日期：2017-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The NTF2-like superfamily is a versatile group of protein domains sharing a common fold. The sequences of these domains are very diverse and they share no common sequence motif. These domains serve a range of different functions within the proteins in which they are found, including both catalytic and non-ca...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Eberhardt RY,Chang Y,Bateman A,Murzin AG,Axelrod HL,Hwang WC,Aravind L

更新日期：2013-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-resolution tandem mass spectra can now be readily acquired with hybrid instruments, such as LTQ-Orbitrap and LTQ-FT, in high-throughput shotgun proteomics workflows. The improved spectral quality enables more accurate de novo sequencing for identification of post-translational modifications and amino ac...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Pan C,Park BH,McDonald WH,Carey PA,Banfield JF,VerBerkmoes NC,Hettich RL,Samatova NF

更新日期：2010-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genetic variations predispose individuals to hereditary diseases, play important role in the development of complex diseases, and impact drug metabolism. The full information about the DNA variations in the genome of an individual is given by haplotypes, the ordered lists of single nucleotide polymorphisms (...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ahn S,Vikalo H

更新日期：2015-07-16 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:Enrichment analysis is a popular approach to identify pathways or sets of genes which are significantly enriched in the context of differentially expressed genes. The traditional gene set enrichment approach considers a pathway as a simple gene list disregarding any knowledge of gene or protein interactions....

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bayerlová M,Jung K,Kramer F,Klemm F,Bleckmann A,Beißbarth T

更新日期：2015-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) is a pool of molecular data sets publicly accessible and freely available to cancer researchers anywhere around the world. However, wide spread use is limited since an advanced knowledge of statistics and statistical software is required. RESULTS:In order to improve accessibil...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Deng M,Brägelmann J,Schultze JL,Perner S

更新日期：2016-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The generation of multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) is a crucial step for many bioinformatic analyses. Thus improving MSA accuracy and identifying potential errors in MSAs is important for a wide range of post-genomic research. We present a novel method called MergeAlign which constructs consensus MSAs fro...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Collingridge PW,Kelly S

更新日期：2012-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Because loops connect regular secondary structures, analysis of the former depends directly on the definition of the latter. The numerous assignment methods, however, can offer different definitions. In a previous study, we defined a structural alphabet composed of 16 average protein fragments, which we call...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Fourrier L,Benros C,de Brevern AG

更新日期：2004-05-12 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:DNA microarrays offer motivation and hope for the simultaneous study of variations in multiple genes. Gene expression is a temporal process that allows variations in expression levels with a characterized gene function over a period of time. Temporal gene expression curves can be treated as functional data s...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kim J,Kim H

更新日期：2017-10-12 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:A drug-drug interaction (DDI) occurs when one drug influences the level or activity of another drug. The increasing volume of the scientific literature overwhelms health care professionals trying to be kept up-to-date with all published studies on DDI. METHODS:This paper describes a hybrid linguistic approa...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Segura-Bedmar I,Martínez P,de Pablo-Sánchez C

更新日期：2011-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The 5'-terminal cap structure plays an important role in many aspects of mRNA metabolism. Capping enzymes encoded by viruses and pathogenic fungi are attractive targets for specific inhibitors. There is a large body of experimental data on viral and cellular methyltransferases (MTases) that carry out guanine...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bujnicki JM,Feder M,Radlinska M,Rychlewski L

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein function in eukaryotic cells is often controlled in a cell cycle-dependent manner. Therefore, the correct assignment of cellular phenotypes to cell cycle phases is a crucial task in cell biology research. Nuclear proteins whose localization varies during the cell cycle are valuable and frequently use...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Schönenberger F,Deutzmann A,Ferrando-May E,Merhof D

更新日期：2015-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glycation is a one of the post-translational modifications (PTM) where sugar molecules and residues in protein sequences are covalently bonded. It has become one of the clinically important PTM in recent times attributed to many chronic and age related complications. Being a non-enzymatic reaction, it is a g...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Reddy HM,Sharma A,Dehzangi A,Shigemizu D,Chandra AA,Tsunoda T

更新日期：2019-02-04 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:Protein sequence profile-profile alignment is an important approach to recognizing remote homologs and generating accurate pairwise alignments. It plays an important role in protein sequence database search, protein structure prediction, protein function prediction, and phylogenetic analysis. RESULTS:In thi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Deng X,Cheng J

更新日期：2014-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Complexes of physically interacting proteins are one of the fundamental functional units responsible for driving key biological mechanisms within the cell. With the advent of high-throughput techniques, significant amount of protein interaction (PPI) data has been catalogued for organisms such as yeast, which has in t...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Srihari S,Leong HW

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To interpret microarray experiments, several ontological analysis tools have been developed. However, current tools are limited to specific organisms. RESULTS:We developed a bioinformatics system to assign the probe set sequences of any organism to a hierarchical functional classification modelled on KEGG o...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Goffard N,Weiller G

更新日期：2007-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Peptidases are proteolytic enzymes responsible for fundamental cellular activities in all organisms. Apparently about 2-5% of the genes encode for peptidases, irrespectively of the organism source. The basic peptidase function is "protein digestion" and this can be potentially dangerous in living organisms w...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bartoli L,Calabrese R,Fariselli P,Mita DG,Casadio R

更新日期：2007-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Community structure is ubiquitous in biological networks. There has been an increased interest in unraveling the community structure of biological systems as it may provide important insights into a system's functional components and the impact of local structures on dynamics at a global scale. Choosing an a...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sah P,Singh LO,Clauset A,Bansal S

更新日期：2014-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With the ever increasing use of computational models in the biosciences, the need to share models and reproduce the results of published studies efficiently and easily is becoming more important. To this end, various standards have been proposed that can be used to describe models, simulations, data or other...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bergmann FT,Adams R,Moodie S,Cooper J,Glont M,Golebiewski M,Hucka M,Laibe C,Miller AK,Nickerson DP,Olivier BG,Rodriguez N,Sauro HM,Scharm M,Soiland-Reyes S,Waltemath D,Yvon F,Le Novère N

更新日期：2014-12-14 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:Over one hundred different types of post-transcriptional RNA modifications have been identified in human. Researchers discovered that RNA modifications can regulate various biological processes, and RNA methylation, especially N6-methyladenosine, has become one of the most researched topics in epigenetics. ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wu X,Wei Z,Chen K,Zhang Q,Su J,Liu H,Zhang L,Meng J

更新日期：2019-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In bioinformatics community, many tasks associate with matching a set of protein query sequences in large sequence datasets. To conduct multiple queries in the database, a common used method is to run BLAST on each original querey or on the concatenated queries. It is inefficient since it doesn't exploit the...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Ge H,Sun L,Yu J

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00