On reliable discovery of molecular signatures.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sharing sets of chemical data (e.g., chemical properties, docking scores, etc.) among collaborators with diverse skill sets is a common task in computer-aided drug design and medicinal chemistry. The ability to associate this data with images of the relevant molecular structures greatly facilitates scientifi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Durrant JD,Amaro RE

更新日期：2014-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The signal peptide plays an important role in protein targeting and protein translocation in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. This transient, short peptide sequence functions like a postal address on an envelope by targeting proteins for secretion or for transfer to specific organelles for further proc...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Choo KH,Tan TW,Ranganathan S

更新日期：2005-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The identification of prognostic genes that can distinguish the prognostic risks of cancer patients remains a significant challenge. Previous works have proven that functional gene sets were more reliable for this task than the gene signature. However, few works have considered the cross-talk among functiona...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Zhou XH,Chu XY,Xue G,Xiong JH,Zhang HY

更新日期：2019-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The development of high-throughput experimentation has led to astronomical growth in biologically relevant lipids and lipid derivatives identified, screened, and deposited in numerous online databases. Unfortunately, efforts to annotate, classify, and analyze these chemical entities have largely remained in ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chepelev LL,Riazanov A,Kouznetsov A,Low HS,Dumontier M,Baker CJ

更新日期：2011-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One very important functional domain of proteins is the protein-protein interacting region (PPIR), which forms the binding interface between interacting polypeptide chains. Post-translational modifications (PTMs) that occur in the PPIR can either interfere with or facilitate the interaction between proteins....

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Saethang T,Payne DM,Avihingsanon Y,Pisitkun T

更新日期：2016-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:FREGENE simulates sequence-level data over large genomic regions in large populations. Because, unlike coalescent simulators, it works forwards through time, it allows complex scenarios of selection, demography, and recombination to be modelled simultaneously. Detailed tracking of sites under selection is im...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chadeau-Hyam M,Hoggart CJ,O'Reilly PF,Whittaker JC,De Iorio M,Balding DJ

更新日期：2008-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ontology term labels can be ambiguous and have multiple senses. While this is no problem for human annotators, it is a challenge to automated methods, which identify ontology terms in text. Classical approaches to word sense disambiguation use co-occurring words or terms. However, most treat ontologies as si...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Alexopoulou D,Andreopoulos B,Dietze H,Doms A,Gandon F,Hakenberg J,Khelif K,Schroeder M,Wächter T

更新日期：2009-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently, the availability of high-resolution microscopy together with the advancements in the development of biomarkers as reporters of biomolecular interactions increased the importance of imaging methods in molecular cell biology. These techniques enable the investigation of cellular characteristics like ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Stoma S,Fröhlich M,Gerber S,Klipp E

更新日期：2011-04-28 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：BACKGROUND:Numerous models for use in interpreting quantitative PCR (qPCR) data are present in recent literature. The most commonly used models assume the amplification in qPCR is exponential and fit an exponential model with a constant rate of increase to a select part of the curve. Kinetic theory may be used to model...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Cobbs G

更新日期：2012-08-16 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:In Gene Ontology, the "Molecular Function" (MF) categorization is a widely used knowledge framework for gene function comparison and prediction. Its structure and annotation provide a convenient way to compare gene functional similarities at the molecular level. The existing gene similarity measures, however...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Peng J,Wang Y,Chen J

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microarray technology provides the expression level of many genes. Nowadays, an important issue is to select a small number of informative differentially expressed genes that provide biological knowledge and may be key elements for a disease. With the increasing volume of data generated by modern biomedical ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Martínez-Otzeta JM,Irigoien I,Sierra B,Arenas C

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One of the greatest challenges in Metabolic Engineering is to develop quantitative models and algorithms to identify a set of genetic manipulations that will result in a microbial strain with a desirable metabolic phenotype which typically means having a high yield/productivity. This challenge is not only du...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Rocha M,Maia P,Mendes R,Pinto JP,Ferreira EC,Nielsen J,Patil KR,Rocha I

更新日期：2008-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Histopathology image analysis is a gold standard for cancer recognition and diagnosis. Automatic analysis of histopathology images can help pathologists diagnose tumor and cancer subtypes, alleviating the workload of pathologists. There are two basic types of tasks in digital histopathology image analysis: i...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Xu Y,Jia Z,Wang LB,Ai Y,Zhang F,Lai M,Chang EI

更新日期：2017-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Estimation of individual ancestry from genetic data is useful for the analysis of disease association studies, understanding human population history and interpreting personal genomic variation. New, computationally efficient methods are needed for ancestry inference that can effectively utilize existing inf...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bansal V,Libiger O

更新日期：2015-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) aspartic protease is an important enzyme owing to its imperative part in viral development and a causative agent of deadliest disease known as acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Development of HIV-1 protease inhibitors can help understand the specifici...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Singh O,Su EC

更新日期：2016-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:For the development of genome assembly tools, some comprehensive and efficiently computable validation measures are required to assess the quality of the assembly. The mostly used N50 measure summarizes the assembly results by the length of the scaffold (or contig) overlapping the midpoint of the length-orde...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mäkinen V,Salmela L,Ylinen J

更新日期：2012-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The wide use of high-throughput DNA microarray technology provide an increasingly detailed view of human transcriptome from hundreds to thousands of genes. Although biomedical researchers typically design microarray experiments to explore specific biological contexts, the relationships between genes are hard...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kong W,Mou X,Hu X

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bistability and ability to switch between two stable states is the hallmark of cellular responses. Cellular signaling pathways often contain bistable switches that regulate the transmission of the extracellular information to the nucleus where important biological functions are executed. RESULTS:In this wor...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Arkun Y

更新日期：2019-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The process of oxidative folding combines the formation of native disulfide bond with conformational folding resulting in the native three-dimensional fold. Oxidative folding pathways can be described in terms of disulfide intermediate species (DIS) which can also be isolated and characterized. Each DIS corr...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Agoston V,Cemazar M,Kaján L,Pongor S

更新日期：2005-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Regulation of gene expression, protein synthesis, replication and assembly of many viruses involve RNA-protein interactions. Although some successful computational tools have been reported to recognize RNA binding sites in proteins, the problem of specificity remains poorly investigated. After the nucleotide...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Fernandez M,Kumagai Y,Standley DM,Sarai A,Mizuguchi K,Ahmad S

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pattern recognition receptors of the immune system have key roles in the regulation of pathways after the recognition of microbial- and danger-associated molecular patterns in vertebrates. Members of NOD-like receptor (NLR) family typically function intracellularly. The NOD-like receptor family CARD domain c...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Mótyán JA,Bagossi P,Benkő S,Tőzsér J

更新日期：2013-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Knowledge of subcellular localization of proteins is crucial to proteomics, drug target discovery and systems biology since localization and biological function are highly correlated. In recent years, numerous computational prediction methods have been developed. Nevertheless, there is still a need for predi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Blum T,Briesemeister S,Kohlbacher O

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Time-lapse analysis of cellular images is an important and growing need in biology. Algorithms for cell tracking are widely available; what researchers have been missing is a single open-source software package to visualize standard tracking output (from software like CellProfiler) in a way that allows conve...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bray MA,Carpenter AE

更新日期：2015-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The analysis of tissue-specific protein interaction networks and their functional enrichment in pathological and normal tissues provides insights on the etiology of diseases. The Pan-cancer proteomic project, in The Cancer Genome Atlas, collects protein expressions in human cancers and it is a reference reso...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sardina DS,Micale G,Ferro A,Pulvirenti A,Giugno R

更新日期：2018-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identifying key components in biological processes and their associations is critical for deciphering cellular functions. Recently, numerous gene expression and molecular interaction experiments have been reported in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and these have enabled systematic studies. Although a number of ap...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hsu JT,Peng CH,Hsieh WP,Lan CY,Tang CY

更新日期：2011-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most state-of-the-art biomedical entity normalization systems, such as rule-based systems, merely rely on morphological information of entity mentions, but rarely consider their semantic information. In this paper, we introduce a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture that regards biomedical e...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Li H,Chen Q,Tang B,Wang X,Xu H,Wang B,Huang D

更新日期：2017-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clustering of protein sequences is of key importance in predicting the structure and function of newly sequenced proteins and is also of use for their annotation. With the advent of multiple high-throughput sequencing technologies, new protein sequences are becoming available at an extraordinary rate. The ra...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Abnousi A,Broschat SL,Kalyanaraman A

更新日期：2018-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:For many types of analyses, data about gene structure and locations of non-coding regions of genes are required. Although a vast amount of genomic sequence data is available, precise annotation of genes is lacking behind. Finding the corresponding gene of a given protein sequence by means of conventional too...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Keller O,Odronitz F,Stanke M,Kollmar M,Waack S

更新日期：2008-06-13 00:00:00