Knowledge driven decomposition of tumor expression profiles.

abstract：:The RNA polymerase NS5B of Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a well-characterised drug target with an active site and four allosteric binding sites. This work presents a workflow for virtual screening and its application to Drug Bank screening targeting the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) RNA polymerase non-nucleoside binding sites....

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Elhefnawi M,ElGamacy M,Fares M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The advent of array-based genome-wide DNA methylation methods has enabled quantitative measurement of single CpG methylation status at relatively low cost and sample input. Whereas the use of Infinium Human Methylation BeadChips has shown great utility in clinical studies, no equivalent tool is available for...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Needhamsen M,Ewing E,Lund H,Gomez-Cabrero D,Harris RA,Kular L,Jagodic M

更新日期：2017-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are of great importance in cellular systems of organisms, since they are the basis of cellular structure and function and many essential cellular processes are related to that. Most proteins perform their functions by interacting with other proteins, so predicting PPIs acc...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Liu L,Zhu X,Ma Y,Piao H,Yang Y,Hao X,Fu Y,Wang L,Peng J

更新日期：2020-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Here we introduce the Protein Sequence Annotation Tool (PSAT), a web-based, sequence annotation meta-server for performing integrated, high-throughput, genome-wide sequence analyses. Our goals in building PSAT were to (1) create an extensible platform for integration of multiple sequence-based bioinformatics...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Leung E,Huang A,Cadag E,Montana A,Soliman JL,Zhou CL

更新日期：2016-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cross-species comparisons of gene neighborhoods (also called genomic contexts) in microbes may provide insight into determining functionally related or co-regulated sets of genes, suggest annotations of previously un-annotated genes, and help to identify horizontal gene transfer events across microbial speci...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Seitzer P,Huynh TA,Facciotti MT

更新日期：2013-01-16 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:Eukaryotic whole genome sequences are accumulating at an impressive rate. Effective methods for comparing multiple whole eukaryotic genomes on a large scale are needed. Most attempted solutions involve the production of large scale alignments, and many of these require a high stringency pre-screen for putati...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Stuart GW,Berry MW

更新日期：2004-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Detection of periodically expressed genes from microarray data without use of known periodic and non-periodic training examples is an important problem, e.g. for identifying genes regulated by the cell-cycle in poorly characterised organisms. Commonly the investigator is only interested in genes expressed at...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Andersson CR,Isaksson A,Gustafsson MG

更新日期：2006-02-09 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:Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression are devastating mental diseases, each with distinctive yet overlapping epidemiologic characteristics. Microarray and proteomics data have revealed genes which expressed abnormally in patients. Several single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and mutations a...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lee SA,Tsao TT,Yang KC,Lin H,Kuo YL,Hsu CH,Lee WK,Huang KC,Kao CY

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As molecular biology is creating an increasing amount of sequence and structure data, the multitude of software to analyze this data is also rising. Most of the programs are made for a specific task, hence the user often needs to combine multiple programs in order to reach a goal. This can make the data proc...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Kunzmann P,Hamacher K

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Elucidating gene regulatory networks is crucial for understanding normal cell physiology and complex pathologic phenotypes. Existing computational methods for the genome-wide "reverse engineering" of such networks have been successful only for lower eukaryotes with simple genomes. Here we present ARACNE, a n...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Margolin AA,Nemenman I,Basso K,Wiggins C,Stolovitzky G,Dalla Favera R,Califano A

更新日期：2006-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mass spectrometry is an essential analytical technique for high-throughput analysis in proteomics and metabolomics. The development of new separation techniques, precise mass analyzers and experimental protocols is a very active field of research. This leads to more complex experimental setups yielding ever ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Sturm M,Bertsch A,Gröpl C,Hildebrandt A,Hussong R,Lange E,Pfeifer N,Schulz-Trieglaff O,Zerck A,Reinert K,Kohlbacher O

更新日期：2008-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The analysis of sequence-structure relations of RNA is based on a specific notion and folding of RNA structure. The notion of coarse grained structure employed here is that of canonical RNA pseudoknot contact-structures with at most two mutually crossing bonds (3-noncrossing). These structures are folded by ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Huang FW,Li LY,Reidys CM

更新日期：2009-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are the most frequent type of sequence variation between individuals, and represent a promising tool for finding genetic determinants of complex diseases and understanding the differences in drug response. In this regard, it is of particular interest to study the effect...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bauer-Mehren A,Furlong LI,Rautschka M,Sanz F

更新日期：2009-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Progress in genome sequencing is proceeding at an exponential pace, and several new algal genomes are becoming available every year. One of the challenges facing the community is the association of protein sequences encoded in the genomes with biological function. While most genome assembly projects generate...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lopez D,Casero D,Cokus SJ,Merchant SS,Pellegrini M

更新日期：2011-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Scientific workflows improve the process of scientific experiments by making computations explicit, underscoring data flow, and emphasizing the participation of humans in the process when intuition and human reasoning are required. Workflows for experiments also highlight transitions among experimental phase...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Verdi KK,Ellis HJ,Gryk MR

更新日期：2007-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antibacterial peptides are one of the effecter molecules of innate immune system. Over the last few decades several antibacterial peptides have successfully approved as drug by FDA, which has prompted an interest in these antibacterial peptides. In our recent study we analyzed 999 antibacterial peptides, whi...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Lata S,Mishra NK,Raghava GP

更新日期：2010-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The information in large collections of phylogenetic trees is useful for many comparative genomic studies. Therefore, there is a need for flexible tools that allow exploration of such collections in order to retrieve relevant data as quickly as possible. RESULTS:In this paper, we present TPMS (Tree Pattern-...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bigot T,Daubin V,Lassalle F,Perrière G

更新日期：2013-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High throughput DNA/RNA sequencing has revolutionized biological and clinical research. Sequencing is widely used, and generates very large amounts of data, mainly due to reduced cost and advanced technologies. Quickly assessing the quality of giga-to-tera base levels of sequencing data has become a routine ...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Chanumolu SK,Albahrani M,Otu HH

更新日期：2019-08-15 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:Correctly identifying genomic regions enriched with histone modifications and transcription factors is key to understanding their regulatory and developmental roles. Conceptually, these regions are divided into two categories, narrow peaks and broad domains, and different algorithms are used to identify each...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Starmer J,Magnuson T

更新日期：2016-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A rapidly increasing flow of genomic data requires the development of efficient methods for obtaining its compact representation. Feature extraction facilitates classification, clustering and model analysis for testing and refining biological hypotheses. "Shotgun" metagenome is an analytically challenging ty...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Dubinkina VB,Ischenko DS,Ulyantsev VI,Tyakht AV,Alexeev DG

更新日期：2016-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genome and metagenome studies have identified thousands of protein families whose functions are poorly understood and for which techniques for functional characterization provide only partial information. For such proteins, the genome context can give further information about their functional context. RESU...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Konietzny SG,Dietz L,McHardy AC

更新日期：2011-05-09 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:Techniques for reconstruction of biological networks which are based on perturbation experiments often predict direct interactions between nodes that do not exist. Transitive reduction removes such relations if they can be explained by an indirect path of influences. The existing algorithms for transitive re...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Bošnački D,Odenbrett MR,Wijs A,Ligtenberg W,Hilbers P

更新日期：2012-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Word sense disambiguation (WSD) attempts to solve lexical ambiguities by identifying the correct meaning of a word based on its context. WSD has been demonstrated to be an important step in knowledge-based approaches to automatic summarization. However, the correlation between the accuracy of the WSD methods...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Plaza L,Jimeno-Yepes AJ,Díaz A,Aronson AR

更新日期：2011-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over the last decade, next generation sequencing (NGS) has become widely available, and is now the sequencing technology of choice for most researchers. Nonetheless, NGS presents a challenge for the evolutionary biologists who wish to estimate evolutionary genetic parameters from a mixed sample of unlabelled...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Wu SH,Rodrigo AG

更新日期：2015-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To understand biology and differences among various tissues or cell types, one typically searches for molecular features that display characteristic abundance patterns. Several specificity metrics have been introduced to identify tissue-specific molecular features, but these either require an equal number of...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Everaert C,Volders PJ,Morlion A,Thas O,Mestdagh P

更新日期：2020-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) play several roles in living cells, and computational PPI prediction is a major focus of many researchers. The three-dimensional (3D) structure and binding surface are important for the design of PPI inhibitors. Therefore, rigid body protein-protein docking calculations fo...

journal_title：BMC bioinformatics

authors： Hayashi T,Matsuzaki Y,Yanagisawa K,Ohue M,Akiyama Y

更新日期：2018-05-08 00:00:00